By Frank Iannamico A Brief History of the Thompson The Thompson submachine gun was conceived during World War I as...
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Read moreBy Frank Iannamico During World War II the British designed and manufactured the 9mm Lanchester machine carbine and magazine that...
Read moreBy Stephen C. Small, Ph.D. Between the years 1870 and 1892, a tremendous technological change took place in the nature...
Read moreBy Robert G. Segel Richard “Dick” Wray (1930-2012) was one of the earliest, most well known and respected classic machine...
Read moreBy Jean Huon The term “machine pistol” appeared for the first time in July 1918, with a new weapon presented...
Read moreBy Chris A. Choat The CZ 75 pistol has been around, in various forms, since 1975. It was not originally...
Read moreBy Michael Heidler The First World War changed the world. Never before had such major progress in military technology been...
Read moreBy Christopher R. BartocciThere is absolutely no question that the AR-platform is the adult Erector Set. You can have whatever...
Read moreBy Dan Shea In Volume 5, Number 1, of Small Arms Defense Journal, we provided the first real guide to the...
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