Various guns were used, until a true dueling pistol was officially standardized in 1777, as "a 9 or 10 inch barreled, smooth bore flintlock of 1 inch bore, carrying a ball of 48 to the pound." ...

Ever since the day of the Flintlock pistol in the 18th and 19th centuries, the US Army has carried a sidearm. Want retirement to come a few years earlier than you’d planned? Or are you ready to ...

The development of ever more efficient means of ignition is one of the major strands in the history of gun making and gun collecting. The 16th century saw the development of wheel-locks, where an ...

The youth, identified as Vishnu Sonwani of Sector D in Vikas Nagar, had allegedly claimed it to be a real pistol on Instagram reel A day after a video went viral on social media showing a youth ...

It was later revealed that it was not a real pistol but a pistol-shaped lighter. It was reported that the youth was under the influence of alcohol. The reel was shared by nd_news_2 on their ...

X-rays of the flintlock didn’t tell us a lot. The pistol is heavily encrusted good ... over the next two years,” the company said. “Pirates and boats from other countries likely ’fished ...

The giveaways are subtle: The Glock logo is absent from the pistol’s grip, where it would ordinarily be imprinted, and the angle of the grip is peculiar. Indentations on the grip, known as ...

During interrogation, they confessed to their involvement in the crime and based on their disclosure, a country-made pistol was recovered, he said. Additionally, the vehicle used during the crime ...