The history of modern firearms arguably begins with the self-loading machine gun, the Maxim Gun. Developed in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim the Maxim Gun used the recoil energy generated by the power of the previously fired bullet to reload the weapon. This meant that the energy ... Read more
The M60 represents a family of American general-purpose machine guns. Introduced in 1957, the M60 has served with every branch of the US military. Its manufacture continues into the present for military and commercial purchase, though it had been supplemented in most military ... Read more
The Modern firearms business is tied indelibly to the advent of the assembly line, and to Sameul Colt’s incorporation of the Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company in Hartford, Connecticut in 1955. Colt was the first weapons manufacturer to recognize the sea-change ... Read more
The M1903 Springfield Rifle was conceived as an American response to the German Mauser M93, which was used to devastating effect in the Spanish-American War, particularly during the Battle of San Juan Hill, wherein 750 Spanish soldiers held off about 15,000 US troops equipped ... Read more
The M1911 Colt Government pistol (so named because it was the standard sidearm of the US Armed Forces for over seventy years) is a single-action, semi-automatic, recoil-operated firearm designed by John Browning—the magisterial Mormon pioneer of the automatic weapon, whose ... Read more
The history of modern firearms arguably begins with the self-loading machine gun, the Maxim Gun. Developed in 1884 by Sir Hiram Maxim the Maxim Gun used the recoil energy generated by the power of the previously fired bullet to reload the weapon. This meant that the energy ... Read more
The M60 represents a family of American general-purpose machine guns. Introduced in 1957, the M60 has served with every branch of the US military. Its manufacture continues into the present for military and commercial purchase, though it had been supplemented in most military ... Read more
The Modern firearms business is tied indelibly to the advent of the assembly line, and to Sameul Colt’s incorporation of the Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company in Hartford, Connecticut in 1955. Colt was the first weapons manufacturer to recognize the sea-change ... Read more
The M1903 Springfield Rifle was conceived as an American response to the German Mauser M93, which was used to devastating effect in the Spanish-American War, particularly during the Battle of San Juan Hill, wherein 750 Spanish soldiers held off about 15,000 US troops equipped ... Read more
The M1911 Colt Government pistol (so named because it was the standard sidearm of the US Armed Forces for over seventy years) is a single-action, semi-automatic, recoil-operated firearm designed by John Browning—the magisterial Mormon pioneer of the automatic weapon, whose ... Read more
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