The machine-gun was a game-changing weapon of mass destruction. But did this awesome threat actually save lives? When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first ...

This was during World War I which spanned 1914 to 1918 and ... the upper wing offered a location to mount a forward facing machine gun which would fire above the propeller. Being on the wing ...

American military weapons may have looked a lot different had it not been for the invention of one Civil War-era firearm—the Gatling gun.

The increased rate of fire was achieved by using a series ... The widespread use of machine guns in World War II resulted in the development of faster-firing guns. Variants of some of these ...

A single pull on the trigger cord would cause the weapon to fire for the next two minutes. It was a mounted machine gun that caught the U.S. Navy’s interest, even if the War Department once ...

While adequate as an air combat / ground attack weapon during World War Two, the Browning M2 .50 caliber machine ... fire, and projectile lethality. Profense LLC demonstrates their M134 mini gun ...

The massive bombing runs did not paralyze the enemy as they might have in a more conventionally-fought war ... gun, capable of rotating to fire in any direction, as well as one 7.62mm machine ...

The lawsuit demands Glock take steps to prevent its guns from being modified into machine-gun-like weapons ... can be converted to fully automatic fire, “but they’ve made what we think is ...