Since the introduction of gunpowder to battlefields in the Middle Ages, firearms have been a deciding factor in battles for [ ...

Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...

This video traces the dramatic transformation of military technology from the age of smoothbore muskets to the dawn of modern machine guns. Covering the years 1837 to 1901, it highlights the ...

The belt-fed machine gun might be the norm these days, but in 1874 it was rather new. Early belt-fed weapons existed as far back as 1855 in the form of chain rifles, but the Bailey gun brought a ...

Lawyers defending Oregon’s gun control Measure 114 have called several historians to the stand who testified on the rarity of guns capable of firing more than one round without reloading at the time ...