Firearms History, Technology & Development

In today's post, we will look at a class of weapon called snubnose revolvers , also sometimes called " belly guns " or " ...

Where we left off in our last post , the company formed by Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson was off to a bad start, as the lever action firea...

When we left off in our last post , we saw that cartridges like .45-70 and .50-90 were named based on their caliber and the amount of black ...

In the world of firearms history, we often see famous cartridge names like .30-30 Winchester, .45 ACP, .30-06 Springfield etc. So how exactl...

Your humble editor recently came across an interesting book called " Modern American Pistols and Revolvers ". The book dates from ...

In our previous post, we studied the basics of recoil operated actions . In this particular post, we will study one of the types of recoil o...

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