Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last post , we left off at the beginnings of a rifle designed for American frontiersmen. We will continue our study in this post. A...

When we first studied the concepts of rifling many months ago, we mentioned that this was known to German speaking people and the names, Ga...

When we left off in our last post , we saw that cartridges like .45-70 and .50-90 were named based on their caliber and the amount of black ...

In the world of firearms history, we often see famous cartridge names like .30-30 Winchester, .45 ACP, .30-06 Springfield etc. So how exactl...

In the world of firearms, some of you readers may have heard about the terms +P and +P+ (pronounced as "Plus-P" and "Plus-P...

When we look at an M16 rifle (or its semi-automatic only civilian cousin, the AR-15), there is something noticeable about their sights: ...

During World War I, aerial combat between aircraft happened for the first time in history. It soon became apparent that machine guns were ne...