Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last few posts, we have studied several examples of guns designed to be used as shotguns and rifles simultaneously. In our last post,...

In the last few posts, we have studied several firearms that could be used both as shotguns and rifles. We will study another member of this...

In the last two posts, we looked at some examples of firearms that could be used as both rifles and shotguns. In today's post, we will...

In our last post, we studied the Paradox gun , which could be used either as a shotgun, or as a rifle. The Paradox gun is one of the example...

In the 19th century, the British Empire spanned a large portion of the globe. This was a time when rich English sportsmen would undertake ex...

The topic of today's study will be an unusual firearm, the Greener police shotgun . The history of this unusual firearm dates back to ...

With the London Olympics just around the corner, one of the events held there is the Olympic Trap Shooting competition. In this competition,...

In our last post, we saw the use of shotguns in geological engineering . In this post, we will look at some more unusual uses of shotguns, i...

Continuing our series on utility firearms (i.e.) firearms not designed to take human life. We will discuss the use of shotguns in the field ...

Well, we did study shotgun bores/gauges in an earlier post. But it is hard to visualize the effects of the different gauges from just a des...

In our first article on shotgun basics, we studied the origin of the term " riding shotgun ". This had to do with a particular typ...

In many movies, there's a scene where the upstanding hero comes running around a corner, only to be confronted by a locked gate. No prob...

When a shotgun fires multiple pellets, they spread out in a cloud of pellets upon leaving the barrel. This is known as the shotgun pattern  ...

Shotguns are designed to fire a wide variety of ammunition, generally more than other firearm types. We will look at the various types of am...

In this post, we will look at a class of shotguns called "hammerless" shotguns.  To understand hammerless shotguns, first let us l...

The early history of true shotguns begins in the 1800s, when people began to use them to hunt birds. During that time, the flintlock firing ...