American history has always been an important part of the annual Gunmakers Fair at Kempton in the five years it has been held ...

Rifles brought from Europe were of little use in the American wilderness. So hunters, frontiersmen, and revolutionaries began demanding something new from their gunsmiths ...

West Virginia has plenty of state symbols, be it the black bear as the state animal, the cardinal as the state bird or the ...

A look at nine firearms whose engineering ideas arrived long before the market, military doctrine, or manufacturing world was ...

The hands-on course teaches participants how to craft an 18th-century flintlock rifle from scratch at the historic ...

JEANNETTE, Pa. — Nearly 263 years ago this August, Col. Henry Bouquet marched a relief column into a stand of oak and hickory forest west of Fort Ligonier and fought one of the most consequential ...

One of the most iconic military longarms ever made, the British Land Pattern musket, more commonly known as the "Brown Bess," ...

I have a love-hate relationship with Mel Gibson’s film, “The Patriot.” On the one hand, it’s a highly entertaining movie about a topic virtually untouched by Hollywood. On the other, the movie is so ...

Some claim that a suppressor can mess with your rifle's accuracy. Here's what really happens when you add a can to your muzzle.

In 1776, Thomas Paine's Common Sense dismantled the moral and political foundations of British rule and argued persuasively for independence for an audience craving change. By the end of the ...

‘Living historians’ have stepped back into the spotlight as US prepares to celebrate its semiquincentennial this week In 1972, a young man named Joe Ryan was teaching his middle school class in ...

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