Firearms History, Technology & Development

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 post , we looked at the earliest forms of paper cartridges . In today's post, we will look at more developments in that fiel...

In the last 50 years or so, there have been several arguments about the 5.56x45 mm. cartridge and its small bullet. Some argue that the larg...

In our last post, we looked at an early weapon that was capable of rapid reloading, the Kalthoff repeater . In today's post, we will loo...

In our last few posts, we have studied several examples of guns designed to be used as shotguns and rifles simultaneously. In our last post,...

In the last few posts, we have studied several firearms that could be used both as shotguns and rifles. We will study another member of this...

In the last two posts, we looked at some examples of firearms that could be used as both rifles and shotguns. In today's post, we will...

In our last post, we studied the Paradox gun , which could be used either as a shotgun, or as a rifle. The Paradox gun is one of the example...

In the 19th century, the British Empire spanned a large portion of the globe. This was a time when rich English sportsmen would undertake ex...

With all these discussions about revolvers we've had in the last few posts, one significant factor has been common to all of them. The w...

In all the previous posts in this section, all the weapons have been muzzleloaders. We will now move on to discussing breechloading rifles....

In our last post, we studied the principle of rifling with the expanding bullet . Now, we will study another system of rifling that has also...

In designs of weapons we've studied so far, one of the major problems as how to provide a tight seal for the bullet when it is fired. Th...