How stamping and production runs make some guns unexpectedly expensive

Why the Marine Corps wanted a rapid fire grenade launcher after Fallujah

Why the FN MAG has stayed a global 7.62 NATO standard for 70 years

What subsonic armor piercing 9x39 actually gets you

The history of Soviet silencers — from WWII Bramit to PBS-1 and PBS-4 and 9x39mm

7N21: Russia's high pressure, armor‑piercing 9mm round (but not in civilian pistols)

The offset barrel with no purpose on the S11 prototype

Why Paris Police were limited to semiautomatic

Project Katie - Could Iowa Battleships Fire Nuclear 16‑inch Shells?

The M14's disastrous manufacturing quality control

Recessed muzzle + barrel shroud using muzzle blast to pull cooling air

From M1 to M6: 25 years of development of Hungary’s 50‑cal anti‑material rifle

Factory precision: 2.5 lb trigger and the 5‑shot, 50‑yard, 2‑inch proof test

Incredibly quiet WWII DeLisle Carbine

Fascist cronyism and Göring's engraved Lugers

Kicking a tuft of grass and finding a sleeping leopard