We know almost nothing about Mr. W.B. McCarty beyond this fact: In 1909, he was granted a patent for a revolver concept in which the cylinder was oriented in a direction perpendicular to a ...

Many early automatic pistols (and some revolvers, for that matter) were offered for sale with shoulder stocks, a practice that endured up until the 1930s. Usually the factory would offer a single ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: These guns were some of the best Europe had to offer. World War I was truly the conflict in which the machine gun came into its own. It offered a devastating rate of ...