Built over 150 years ago, the first machine gun is still influential American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling patents the hand-cranked Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis. “It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine gun which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty…
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Know Your Firearms History: The ‘Tiffany Guns’ of the Spanish-American War
The ‘Tiffany Guns’ of the Spanish-American War President Joe Biden has repeatedly suggested when it was first drafted there were restrictions to the Second Amendment. He pressed the point by stating that “you couldn’t own a cannon,” while more recently he’s made the argument that the Second Amendment isn’t absolute in that Americans today…
Know Your Weapons: Russian 6P41 PKP Pecheneg
6P41 PKP Pechentheg: Belt Fed Vodka Blaster This 7.62x54R belt-fed monster is the most common General Purpose Machine Gun in the third world. It has the weight of a M249 SAW and packs the punch of a M240B.