Firearms History, Technology & Development

In our last couple of posts, we studied about different types of scopes and what they look like from the outside. In today's post, we w...

In our last post, we looked at some basics of rifle scopes . We will continue our discussion in this post. As we saw in our last post, t...

Many months ago, we had studied about rifle scopes briefly, when studying different types of sights. In today's post, we will cover the...

In the last 50 years or so, there have been several arguments about the 5.56x45 mm. cartridge and its small bullet. Some argue that the larg...

First, I'd like to wish all the readers of this blog a very happy 2015. Quick, identify the firearm in the image below: Click on ...

In today's post, we will study a particular class of firearm that was very uniquely American and popular from the end of the Civil War t...

So what is a barrel shroud ? It is simply a hollow covering tube that surrounds a barrel (either partially or fully). What does it do? Well,...