Firearms History, Technology & Development

In the 19th century, the British Empire spanned a large portion of the globe. This was a time when rich English sportsmen would undertake ex...

In our last post, we talked about the concept of " cylinder gap ". Briefly, revolvers have a gap between the cylinder and the rear...

In today's post, we will look into the topic of revolvers and firearms safety and also study the concept of cylinder gaps . If the rea...

A couple of posts ago, we looked at various members of the M16 family . All of the models we have looked at so far, have been developed for ...

In our last post about the M16 family , there was an interesting comment by a long time reader of this blog, Mr. Wojciech Imbierowicz. He qu...

In our last post, we looked at some members of the M16 family . We also mentioned that the M16A2 model is a very influential model in the M1...

Many months ago, we had explored the differences between various members of the AK family (e.g.) AK-47, AKM, AK-74, AK-101 etc. In today...