Colt was the first to apply Industrial Age machining tools to the idea. Mass production made the guns affordable. Reliability and accuracy made the Colt a favorite of soldiers and frontiersmen.

"Success hasn't made Glock, a highly secretive man, any more trusting of the people around him," says Dyan Machan at Forbes. The Gatling gun was one of the first machine guns, using a hopper on ...

Gabrielle Giffords, a former member of Congress who was shot in the head in 2011, is urging President Trump to prioritize ...

More than 25,000 privately made firearms were recovered in ... uneasy spotlight on 3D-printed firearms, as the first known use of such a gun in a high-profile killing. “It’s already reoriented ...