Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last couple of posts , we looked at certain types of steel alloys which are used in firearm construction. In today's post, we wil...

In our last post, we looked at steel alloys commonly used in modern barrels . In today's post, we will continue to look at some more ste...

Over the years, we've briefly discussed the properties of some of the metals used to construct a firearm (such as here and here ). In t...

A few posts ago, when we studied heavy machine guns , it was mentioned that one of the features of some of these machine guns is a jacket fi...

In our last couple of posts, we looked at medium machine guns . In today's post, we will look at some developments in the General Purpos...

In our last post, we looked at the early beginnings of medium machine guns . We will continue to study this class of machine gun in this pos...

In our last few posts, we looked at light machine guns and heavy machine guns . Briefly, a light machine gun fires intermediate-sized ammun...