One of the classic gun nerd tropes is when an armed protagonist in a tense scene disengages the safety on their revolver with a nice audible click. Silly writer! Revolver's don't have manual safeties ...

We know almost nothing about Mr. W.B. McCarty beyond this fact: In 1909, he was granted a patent for a revolver concept in which the cylinder was oriented in a direction perpendicular to a ...

Many early automatic pistols (and some revolvers, for that matter) were offered for sale with shoulder stocks, a practice that endured up until the 1930s. Usually the factory would offer a single ...

World War I was truly the conflict in which the machine gun came into its own. It offered a devastating rate of fire that was able to mow down any troops that tried in vain to cross no man’s land in ...