Firearms History, Technology & Development

Many months ago, we studied the differences between the 5.56mm. and the .223 cartridges . In that article, it was mentioned that the dimensi...

To a layman, the 5.56mm. cartridge and the .223 cartridge are the same dimensions. However, many people would advice not to use one in a rif...

In our previous post , we looked at the term " best gun ". As we found in our previous post, this is a term that is used to refer ...

While most pistols started to become multi-shot weapons in the 1800s, there were some pistol models that were still single-shot models well ...

In the last few posts, we talked about a particular type of recoil action called the short recoil operated action . In this post, we will t...

When we last left off on revolver developments, we'd studied single and double action revolvers and the beginning of metallic cartridge...