Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post, we looked at hang fires and dud cartridges . In this post, we will look at another firearm malfunction usually caused by b...

In our last post, we looked at some reasons for firearm malfunctions . In the next few posts, we will discuss these reasons in more detail. ...

In our previous post, we studied about the stovepipe jam . But we got a little ahead of ourselves there. What we should have studied first i...

In the next few posts, we will study some cases of malfunctions in firearms. The first one we will study is the stovepipe jam . A typic...

When it comes to mounting accessories on to small arms, a  picatinny rail  is usually what is used to attach an accessory to the firearm in ...

To a layman, the 5.56mm. cartridge and the .223 cartridge are the same dimensions. However, many people would advice not to use one in a rif...

In this post, we will look at a particular type of multi-shot firearm, the Harmonica Gun . For centuries, many people were trying to build...