Firearm History

by Pierangelo Tendas Designed in 1886 and adopted the following year by the French military, the Lebel Modèle 1886 has...

The day was hot, Africa hot. The CIA asset sweated like a harlot in church as he took in the...

By Jim Dickson When the tank first appeared on the WWI battlefields at the Somme on September 15, 1916, the...

The Second World War was one of great technological advances. It was first war to see the use of jet...

By Tom Ring During 1983-1985, Harold "Hal" Johnson designed and built an experimental prototype .30 cal., lightweight machine gun for...

By Jim Dickson Unlike the U.S. Air Force, which thinks a hard-to-hit with skeletonized zip gun is a survival weapon,...

When the machine gun appeared at the beginning of the last century, researchers were made to enhance, at best, its...

By Gabriel Coutinho de Gusmão (This is a multi-part series. Click here to read Part I.) In the last chapter...

By Jim Dickson The title of the most reliable semi-auto rifle of all time goes to the M1941 Johnson. While...

The Forensic Institute of the Security Police (Kriminaltechnisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei / KTI) was a department of the Reich Main...