Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last article about unusual firearms, we looked at the Greener police shotgun . In today's post, we will look at a very unusual cl...

The caliver or the culiver was an improved arquebus (i.e.) a light matchlock weapon. One of its main improvements over the arquebus was th...

The Arquebus was a type of firearm that was commonly used between the 14th and 17th century. It was a type of matchlock , the barrel was gen...

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