Firearms History, Technology & Development

With the new year, we will now study another branch of firearms tech. Before we start, I would like to thank all the readers of this blog fo...

In our last post about combined firearms , two of the examples (the whip pistol and King Henry VIII's mace) are also examples of a conce...

In the last few posts, we have seen firearms combined with axes , with swords and knives and with daggers . In this post, we will look at s...

In our last post, we studied the combination of a firearm with a sword . In this post, we will look into a relative of the sword, the dagger...

In our last discussion, we explored how axes and pistols could be combined together into a single weapon. In this post, we will explore pist...

In the early days of firearms history, there was no automatic reloading mechanism for firearms, so once the firearm was discharged, the time...

In the realm of large bore firearms, there exists one exceptionally large bore class of weapons known as " punt guns ". We will s...