Firearms History, Technology & Development

In the last post , we discussed the break-open or top-break action. In this post, we will study the sliding barrel action. The image above s...

When we last left off on our study of firearm mechanisms, we were still dealing with muzzle-loaders and the percussion cap . While we did s...

There are a ton of firearm myths going around, thanks to the movie industry. This post aims to deal with some of them. 1. Some ceramic g...

When we last left off on revolver developments, we'd studied single and double action revolvers and the beginning of metallic cartridge...

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...

We have devoted the last few posts to studying revolver firing mechanisms. Now we will spend some time in studying revolver loading mechanis...

In the last few posts, we've studied various types of single-action and double action revolvers. These were not the only types of revol...