Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we looked at tinfoil cartridges , which was one way to make cartridges more resistant to water. In today's post, we wi...

In our last post , we studied linen cartridges . In today's post, we will study cartridges made of a more exotic material: tinfoil. Yes,...

A few weeks ago, we began to study an early form of cartridge: the paper cartridge . Where we left off, paper cartridges had advanced to the...

In our last post , we saw the advances in paper cartridge technology to handle expanding bullets. In today's post, we will study more ad...

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...

Many months ago, we talked about the development of the percussion lock . This was where the idea of striking a shock-sensitive substance wi...

In our last post , we left off at the beginnings of a rifle designed for American frontiersmen. We will continue our study in this post. A...

After all the geeky stuff we've studied in the last few posts, it might be a good idea to study a piece of history instead. We will stud...

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 ...

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