Firearms History, Technology & Development

The AK family of assault rifles are pretty widespread around the world, because of their lower cost of manufacturing, lower tooling costs, ...

In many movies, there's a scene where the upstanding hero comes running around a corner, only to be confronted by a locked gate. No prob...

When a shotgun fires multiple pellets, they spread out in a cloud of pellets upon leaving the barrel. This is known as the shotgun pattern  ...

Shotguns are designed to fire a wide variety of ammunition, generally more than other firearm types. We will look at the various types of am...

In this post, we will look at a class of shotguns called "hammerless" shotguns.  To understand hammerless shotguns, first let us l...

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 ...

In our last post, we looked at a type of firearm called the blunderbuss . These weapons faded out of popularity around the end of the 18th c...