A piece of American history has come home after a long absence. A .78-caliber smoothbore musket, stolen from the Valley Forge ...

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 ...

Americans, for example, tend to associate the smoothbore musket with the Revolutionary War; rifled musket with the Civil War; ...

A few years later, another county kid from Hanoverton headed down a similar path. At 15 years old and attending United Local, ...

As America’s first smokeless cartridge, introduced 1895, the old .30-30 is not just old—it’s the oldest, as modern American cartridges go. And yet it remains as effective as ever. In fact ...

The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate ... as "a 9 or 10 inch barreled, smooth bore flintlock of 1 inch bore, carrying a ball of 48 to ...

The Brown Bess Flintlock Musket came in 3 sizes - Long Land pattern ... bayonet attached the weapon would be over 6' in length. Smooth bore, this weapon would fire a ball of 3/4" diameter and ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

5 In Nightingale, Smoothbore Shotgun is a type of Weapon. This ranged weapon can be utilized to maintain a distance from hostile forces while dealing hefty damage.In order to craft this item ...

Tens of millions of AR-15 rifles and similar variants are in the hands of US gun enthusiasts When it comes to America's vast gun culture, no weapon has become as ubiquitous - or controversial - as ...

Designed by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL), the Challenger 3 features next-generation modular armor, advanced communications, and a powerful 120mm L55A1 smoothbore gun. -In a live-fire test ...

The top enlisted airman said Air Force recruits should one day carry actual rifles during basic military training. (Ava Leone/U.S. Air Force) The U.S. Air Force eventually wants its aspiring ...