Firearm History

By Robert Bruce“The employment of flame projectors as tactical weapons was a concept that appealed to the Western Front belligerents,...

By Bas MartensDuring World War II, several models of so-called grenade rifles were developed in occupied Czechoslovakia. Until recently, these...

By Robert G. SegelThe Lewis gun is the most recognized classic light machine gun in the world with an honorable...

By Tom Davis, Jr. J. Curtis Earl The passage of the 1934 National Firearms Act created a new class of...

By Ken Keilholz Richard "Dick" Wray: 1930 - 2012 The Class III community has lost one of its earliest, well...

By J. David Truby The Vietnam War, plus the rise of coordinated and connected international terrorism in the 1960s and...

Despite the fact that Bergmann designed many successful pistol models dating from the early 1980’s it was Hugo Schmeisser that...

Located on the bank of the Rhein Falls, SIG (Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft) is situated in the picturesque town of Schaffhausen,...