Firearms History, Technology & Development

When World War I started, the French introduced a light machine gun called the Chauchat. While it was capable of selecting both single and a...

In the next series of posts, we will study the evolution of the modern assault rifle. First let us go back a few centuries in time and stu...

In maritime history, there have been several cases where a ship has foundered close to shore and no one could be rescued because a rescue ro...

Many of us have watched military units performing rifle drills in parades. The USMC's Silent Drill platoon is one of the more well known...

In the meat processing industry, there are certain tools that are used to enable a quick humane death of a food animal. There are two basic ...

In our last post, we saw the use of shotguns in geological engineering . In this post, we will look at some more unusual uses of shotguns, i...

Continuing our series on utility firearms (i.e.) firearms not designed to take human life. We will discuss the use of shotguns in the field ...