In 1718, British inventor James Puckle patented what may have been the world's first machine gun - a tripod-mounted, ...

The British Army began World War I with only two machine guns per infantry battalion. One gun was a spare, meaning the effective ratio was one per 1,000 soldiers. Historian John Ellis summarized, “For ...

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LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - British machine gun maker Manroy said it has not sold weapons to Libya, in response to a newspaper article which questioned the identity of the Middle East government that ...

"These are weapons of war," said the dad of a teen killed in a hail of 89 shots. Just weeks before he was killed along with three others in a hail of gunfire at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, ...

History is full of strange experiments in firepower, and not every design was destined for mass production. From makeshift pistols hacked together in garages to bizarre hybrids that merged swords, ...