Firearms History, Technology & Development

In the last couple of posts, we studied the basics of sights , some details about iron sights and some details about open iron sights . In ...

In our previous post, we studied some basics about iron sights . Now we will study one of the types of iron sights, the Open sight. In an op...

In our previous post, we learned a bunch of basics about sights in general. The first type of sights we will study are called Iron Sights ....

In this next series of posts, we will talk about a topic that is very key to effectively using a firearm. If you can't aim a firearm pro...

In quite a few previous posts, we've made references to " free floating barrels ", usually in the context of accuracy. Phrases...

Let us now recap what we've learned about gas operated systems in the last few posts: Gas operated systems work by utilizing some of the...

In this post, we will study a lesser known gas-operated system known as the Gas Trap system . This was only used for a few rifles in history...