Firearms History, Technology & Development

In today's post, we will study a special firearm that was developed during World War I. It was the world's first anti-tank rifle and...

In our previous post about semi-automatic pistols , we noted that while such a pistol is capable of shooting several times before reloading,...

A very common question among newbies to firearms history is "What is the difference between a rifle, a sub machine gun, a machine gun, ...

In our previous post , we studied the basics of the blowback action and learned a few things. Blowback actions do not have the bolt locke...

In the last couple of posts, we studied the break-open action and the sliding barrel action . Now we will study another type of action that...