Firearms History, Technology & Development

Imagine you're looking at a used pistol with an intent to purchase it. If it has been well used, chances are that some parts may be worn...

A little while back, we studied how the trigger mechanisms of the AR-15 and M16 rifles work , complete with a video with animation explainin...

In our last post, we saw a video that showed the basics of a bolt-action firearm , A bolt action is in the class of manually operated firear...

In our last couple of posts, we saw a couple of examples of semi-automatic, full automatic and three round burst mechanisms. The first vid...

In our last post, we saw a movie showing how a firearm could implement a mechanism to shoot in semi-automatic and full automatic modes . Of ...

Hello everyone, I'm back from my long vacation and it was simply awesome. I'll publish some pictures of firearms that I took while I...

One of the more exotic firing mechanisms around is the electrical firing mechanism. Mr. W.W. Greener, in his book, The Gun and Its Developme...

In the world of firing mechanisms, one more development must be mentioned: The Gyrojet or rocket powered bullets. The Gyrojet family of smal...

So far, we've covered firing mechanisms all the way to the flintlock . The flintlock was a major advancement in firing technology and it...

The flintlock was the next big advance in firing mechanisms. The flintlock was based on a Spanish invention called the miquelet lock. The f...

The next development from the snaplock was called the Snaphaunce. The origin of the name is believed to have come from Dutch Snap Haan whic...

Due to the price of the wheel-lock mechanism, it was generally only popular among the elites of society and among people who were close to ...

In some of the previous posts, we've discussed matchlocks in detail. One of the major problems of a matchlock is keeping the slow match...

In our previous discussion that covered some early portable firearms , we've seen how the early firearms were used by soldiers. To recap...