Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Benjamin Currie/HuffPost In a video clip uploaded three months ago, one of YouTube’s most prominent gun reviewers ...

Born on the battlefields of the Second World War, the MG42 quickly earned a reputation for a rate of fire unlike anything else of its time. In this overview, we follow how its stamped-steel ...

The Maxim gun was the world’s first true machine gun - a weapon that fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Invented in the 1880s by Hiram Maxim, it used recoil energy to fire automatically, ...

The U.S. military has spent a century modernizing almost everything with the exception of one machine gun. The Browning M2 entered service when biplanes and trench warfare still defined combat, yet it ...

KNDS, a European defense contractor, has unveiled a new tank with a bewildering number of guns. EMBT ADT 140 mounts not one, but three guns—each optimized to handle a different kind of threat. The ...

In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by ...