Firearm History

Compiled by Robert Bruce, SAR Military Affairs Editor Unfortunately, the word “propaganda” has come to be regarded as something bad;...

FN represents Fabrique Nationale the Belgian company that originally designed and manufactured the rifle, FAL represents (in French) Fusil Automatique...

It has been a hero’s journey of sorts for the legendary AA-12 “Sledgehammer” automatic shotgun. In literature and mythology, the...

By Lynndon Schooler Sudayev 1944 AS-44 prototype The bloodiest conflict in human history brought unthinkable hardships and suffering to the...

Since the German MP 18 had shown its potential in World War I, submachine guns became an indispensable part of...

The Copenhagen-based company Dansk Industri Syndikat (DISA) has been manufacturing weapons for the Danish armed forces since 1900. Even before...

One of the most famous machine guns of the World War I, the Lewis MG, was based on a basic...

Since Russia adopted the Mosin-Nagant rifle in 1891, something like 37 million of them went into service all over the...

The AKM (Kalashnikov Improved Assault Rifle) is the second version of the AK-47. It was adopted in 1959 by the...

In four months, his army carved hundreds of miles east from Poland, through Russia, to the city of Tula. Tula...