Forgotten Weapons

Traumatic pistols are a class of less-lethal guns typically they fire rubber balls....

It holds 5 rounds of .22 Short, and fires double action. Only a few hundred (perhaps a thousand) were made, which is understandable once you handle one. While the gun is small, the reach to the trigger is actually quite long, and the trigger itself is rather heavy. That combination would actually make it a bit difficult to...

Found a 1959 'Guns And Ammo' article showing off the futuristic Armalite AR-15. It's still listed as chambered in .222 Remington, but is vaguely indicted to be using "hotter" rounds. It wouldn't be until 1963 that 5.56mm, which is based on the .222 is officially recognized....

This clandestine pistol is modified to:...

Capone, the boss of the Chicago Outfit, obtained the gun in 1928 while he was living part time in a palatial estate in Miami Beach. While there, Capone decided he needed some extra firepower for protection. He had a friend, hotel manager Parker Henderson Jr., purchase six revolvers and six shotguns from a Miami pawn shop, which...

Introduced into competition shooting at Bisley before the war, this is a type of magnified sight which uses independent lenses mounted to the front and rear of a rifle (some fitted to the SMLE rear sight and some attached to the back of the receiver). This was low profile, relatively inexpensive, and quick to put into service,...

The device was called L’Arbalete la Sauterelle Type A D’Imphy, and it quite literally was a crossbow, using the tension of two bent steel rods to provide the energy storage that sinew provided back when the Romans were building this sort of thing. A metal cup held a spherical Type 14 grenade (weight roughly 1kg/2.2lb), and a...

Here's a smaller version for muskets and rifles:...

This duo of 1911s were made from a meteorite discovered in Gibeon, Namibia. It's creators are known for extremely expensive high end handguns but this set is arguably priceless. They were unveiled at a trade show in 2016....

“The Protector” was a very discreet palm pistol developed in the late 1800s by a French inventor, produced in bulk by the Ames Sword Company, and sold by the Chicago Firearms Company. They are mechanically double-action turret revolvers with a unique grip design meant to be to be fired by squeezing. The first few were made...

This piece of trench art was made of a 37mm shell.

The personnel halting and stimulation response rifle (PHASR) is a prototype non-lethal laser dazzler developed by the US Department of Defense....

Heckler & Koch’s “Operational Briefcase” is a clever system for covert carry of a submachine gun without the need to conceal such a large type of weapon under bulky clothing. By putting the gun into a briefcase, they gave security personnel a way to blend right into the business and executive type of environment. Of...

The pinfire cartridge was a popular development in Europe in the mid-1800s that never saw much exposure in the United States. A huge variety of pinfire revolvers were made by a myriad of large and small shops, with Liege Belgium being one of the biggest manufacturing centers....

Many post apocalyptic games like Fallout 4 and Rust feature AK pattern rifles with their stock replaced with shovel handles. This is why....

Seeing as it's Christmas here's a list with facts about each of the guns that appear in Die Hard. Where John McClane topples a terrorist takeover of a Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza....

The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun. Lulls occurred in the fighting as armies ran out of men and munitions and commanders reconsidered their strategies following the stalemate of the Race to the Sea and the indecisive result of the First Battle of Ypres. In the week leading up to 25 December, French,...

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This rifle is in exception condition considering it would have been property of the Imperial German Army decades before the first world war....

That was actually feed back given from the US army to the development team at Heckler & Koch....