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

For the first half of the 20th century, one of the most important firearms in the U.S. military arsenal was the water-cooled ...

The belt-fed machine gun might be the norm these days, but in 1874 it was rather new. Early belt-fed weapons existed as far back as 1855 in the form of chain rifles, but the Bailey gun brought a ...