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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: These guns were some of the best Europe had to offer. World War I was truly the conflict in which the machine gun came into its own. It offered a devastating rate of ...

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 ...

The "Bigot" was a dart-firing M1911 .45 caliber pistol intended as a way for commandos to quietly eliminate sentries – although we are not sure what advantage it might have had over a silenced pistol.