It was a very utilitarian type of rifle, but some of the nicer versions came with a peep sight. To my knowledge, all 340s had a black walnut ... 33-grains of benchmark powder.

The accident is altogether unprecedented; nothing like it could have happened to a manufactory of common black gunpowder ... specific gravity of ordinary gun-powder; or, in other words, for ...

The rifle that was found in Ryan Wesley Routh’s alleged sniper’s nest just outside Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach on Sept. 15. Photos were included in a detention memo filed ...

Lever-action rifles are turning up by the scores in used-gun racks, their wooden stocks battered and once-blued steel worn silver. The grandfathers who used them are afield in happier hunting ...

The military has recently announced plans to issue rifles, in addition to handguns, to commanders at the lieutenant level and ...

A shortened variant of the M16A2 rifle, the M4 carbine provides the individual soldier operating in close quarters the capability to engage targets at extended range with accurate, lethal fire.

1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside. A shooter uses one hand for firing ...

The AR-15-style rifle has always been in the American news, but it re-entered American politics on Saturday, 13th July 2024. Law enforcement officers recovered the firearm at the location of ...

As with most shooting products, the best rifle case to get depends on the user’s specific needs. The size and number of rifles to be transported has an outsized influence on the decision, as does the ...

The best gun cases of 2023 cover a lot of territory. There are heavy-duty cases for traveling with rifles, cases that protect your firearms from rust, cases that transport your firearms discreetly, ...

End of carousel For many Americans, it’s likely that the surprising aspect of Harris’s comment was that she — a Black Democratic woman — has a gun in her house. Democrats are understood to ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that v ...