In 1936, Lewis Nolan Nomar patented this device, which is basically a large 40-round magazine for the 1911 pistol. He envisioned a military use for the device in trench raiding, giving men a compact weapon with a large capacity. Unfortunately for him, the device was both remarkably (and unnecessarily) heavy and obsolete the day...
During the World War 1 the British started a propaganda campaign concentrating on the German use of the sawback bayonet as another "act of frightfulness by the bestial Hun" and claimed their use to be a war crime as they believed they would leave horrific wounds....
In the early 1960s, an influential but little-known (today) firearms designer by the name of Robert Hillberg came up with an idea for a cheap-but-effective armament for the masses. With encouragement from DARPA, the Winchester company took up manufacture and development of the design, under the name “Liberator”....
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Here's a website that catalogs some of the guns sold on the markets of the Khyber Pass....
This ludicrously huge handgun is actually a 10-gauge Colt 1855 Revolving Shotgun with a cut-down barrel and a newly made grip frame. The backstop and trigger guard of the shotgun were handily reshaped into a grip frame, and the finished product actually looks nicely proportional – until you try to actually pick it up, of...
Flintlock hand mortars were use for signaling, launching fireworks, and hurling grenades....
This trench club is one in a wide variety of designs cludged together to be used in trench raids during the first world war.
During World War I, the United States developed several types of body armor, including the chrome nickel steel Brewster Body Shield, which consisted of a breastplate and a headpiece and could withstand .303 British bullets at 2,700 ft/s (820 m/s), but was clumsy and heavy at 40 lb (18 kg). A scaled waistcoat of overlapping steel...
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist who is famous for guiding escaped slaves to the North in the Underground Railroad and helping plan the attack on Harper's Ferry....
In the early years of the 20th century, before the Great War tempered society’s interest in the martial arts, dueling came into the popular vogue. Not the lethal kind, but rather a more sporting style using pistols firing wax balls instead of lead bullets....
Iver Johnson revolvers were massively popular around end of the 1800s and the start of the 1900s they were marketed as a safe option for the working class person....
This is essentially an Uzi converted into a form factor than doesn’t look like a gun when folded up. It was designed by one Utah Connor in the early 1980s. Only a few complete guns were made before the registration of transferrable machine guns was closed in 1986, but Connor did make “about one hundred” receivers and...
I had these in my queue of stuff to post, but given Gaston Glock's passing I figured now might be a good time....
This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, Connecticut. In 1857, Brown contracted Blair to forge pikes for the clandestine slave insurrection he was planning for Harpers Ferry....
The drip rifle was invented by Lance Corporal W. C. Scurry of the 7th Battalion, AIF, with assistance from Private A. H. Lawrence. [Scurry was also a private at the time]...
If you have PPSh-41 don't do this.
Video of it in use [1:00] (no audio): https://youtu.be/YoOaJclkSZg...
>The spear has a large, leaf-shaped blade with pronounced medial ridge and a short hexagonal socket pierced to receive the bolt of a toggle. The bolt ends in a loop from which the toggle is hinged....
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