Field Manual - Firearms Encyclopedia

Academy Sports + Outdoors

AK-47 / AKM

Alabama Firearms History: From the Selma Arsenal to Constitutional Carry

Alaska Firearms History: From Native Hunters to Constitutional Carry

Alexander John Forsyth: The Minister Who Ended the Flintlock Era

Amateur Trapshooting Association

American Airgun Field Target Association (AAFTA)

American System of Manufacturing

AR-15 Platform

AR-15: America's Modern Sporting Rifle

Archery Shooters Association (ASA)

Arizona Firearms History: From Territorial Law to Constitutional Carry

Arkansas Firearms History: From Frontier Territory to Constitutional Carry

ArmaLite AR-10: The Rifle That Built the AR Family

Arquebus: The Gun That Ended the Age of Knights

Assault Rifle: The Weapon That Rewrote Infantry Combat

Barnes Bullets

Barrett Firearms

Barrett Firearms Manufacturing

Barrett M82 / M107

Bass Pro Shops

Battle of Cerignola (1503): The Day Small Arms Changed Everything

Battle of Crécy (1346)

Battles of Saratoga (1777)

Benelli USA

Benelli USA

Benjamin Tyler Henry: The Man Who Made Repeating Fire Work

Berdan Primer: The American Invention That Conquered the World (Except America)

Beretta 92 Series

Beretta 92FS

Beretta USA

Bergara

Berger Bullets

Bergmann MP 18: The Gun That Created a Weapon Class

Big 5 Sporting Goods

Black Hills Ammunition

Blazer

Bomgaars

Boxer Primer: The Small Component That Shaped Modern Ammunition

Brown Bess: The Land Pattern Musket That Built an Empire

Brownells

Browning Arms

Browning Arms Company

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

Bushmaster

Cabela's

California Firearms History

Canik USA

Canik USA Pistols

CCI/Speer

Christensen Arms

Civilian Marksmanship Program

Claude-Étienne Minié: The Man Who Changed How Wars Were Fought

Colorado Firearms History: From Frontier Territory to the Front Range Culture Wars

Colt CZ Group Acquires Synthesia Nitrocellulose

Colt New Army & Navy Revolver

Colt Paterson Revolver

Colt Walker Revolver (1847)

Colt's Manufacturing

Concealed Carry in the United States: A Legal History

Connecticut Firearms History

CZ 82

CZ Group Acquisition of Colt's Manufacturing Company

CZ P-10 C

CZ-USA

Daniel Defense

Defense Distributed

Delaware Firearms History: The First State's Gun Culture, DuPont, and Modern Law

Dick's Sporting Goods

District of Columbia Firearms History

District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Double-Action Mechanism

DoubleTap Ammunition

DPMS

Ducks Unlimited (DU)

Dunham's Sports

Ed Brown Products

Eli Whitney: The Man Who Didn't Invent Interchangeable Parts (But Changed Manufacturing Anyway)

Eli Whitney: The Man Who Sold Washington on Interchangeable Parts

Eugene Stoner: The Man Behind the AR-15 and America's Most Influential Rifle Design

Eurooptic

Federal Premium

Federation Internationale de Tir aux Armes Sportives de Chasse (FITASC)

FGC-9: The 3D-Printed Carbine That Rewrote the Rules on Gun Control

Fiocchi

Fire Lance: The Gunpowder Weapon That Started Everything

Fire Lance: The Gunpowder Weapon That Started Everything

Firearm Cartridge

Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC)

Fleet Farm

Flintlock Mechanism

Florida Firearms History: From Spanish Colonial Muskets to Constitutional Carry

FN America

Gander Outdoors

Gaston Glock: The Engineer Who Remade the Handgun Industry

Gatling Gun

Georgia Firearms History: From Colonial Militia Laws to Constitutional Carry

Gewehr 98: The Bolt Action That Built the Modern Rifle

Glock

Glock 17

Glock 19 - The Ultimate Compact Striker-Fired Pistol

Glock 19 Gen6

Glock Gen6

Graf & Sons

Gun Owners of America (GOA)

GunBroker

Gunpowder: The Accidental Invention That Rewrote History

Hand Cannon

Hawaii Firearms History: From the Kingdom of Hawaii to the Modern Legal Battleground

Heckler & Koch

Heilongjiang Hand Cannon: The World's Oldest Surviving Firearm

Henry Repeating Arms

Henry Rifle (Model 1860)

Hiram Maxim: The Man Who Mechanized Death

History of Firearms

Hornady

How to Choose Your First Handgun: A Complete Beginner's Guide

Hussite Wars (1419–1434): How Bohemian Peasants Rewrote the Rules of Gunpowder Warfare

Idaho Firearms History: From Territorial Trails to Constitutional Carry

Illinois Firearms History

Indiana Firearms History: From Frontier Territory to Constitutional Carry

Interchangeable Parts: The Manufacturing Revolution That Rewrote Warfare

International Benchrest Shooters (IBS)

International Confederation of Fullbore Rifle Associations (ICFRA)

International Defensive Pistol Association

International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association (IHMSA)

International Hunter Education Association (IHEA-USA)

Introduction to USPSA Competition

Iowa Firearms History: From Black Hawk's War to Constitutional Carry

Jan Žižka: The One-Eyed General Who Invented Tank Warfare

John Garand: The Man Who Armed America's Infantry

John H. Hall: Breechloader Inventor and Father of American Mass Production

John Moses Browning: The Man Who Armed the Modern World

Kansas Firearms History: From Bleeding Kansas to Constitutional Carry

Kentucky Firearms History

Kentucky Long Rifle

Kimber

Lebel Model 1886 Rifle

Les Baer Custom

Louis-Nicolas Flobert (1819–1894)

Louisiana Firearms History: From French Colonial Muskets to Constitutional Carry

LWRC International

M1 Garand: The Rifle That Defined American Infantry in World War II

M16 Rifle

Machine Gun: The Weapon That Remade Modern Warfare

Maine Firearms History: From Muskets on the Frontier to Constitutional Carry

Marin le Bourgeoys: The Man Who Standardized the Flintlock

Marlin Firearms

Maryland Firearms History

Massachusetts Firearms History

Matchlock: The Mechanism That Changed Everything

Maxim Gun

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Michigan Firearms History: From Fort Pontchartrain to Constitutional Carry

MidwayUSA

Mikhail Kalashnikov: Designer of the AK-47

MilSim West (MSW)

Minié Ball

Minnesota Firearms History: From Fur Trade Forts to Modern Gun Law Debates

Miquelet Lock: The Mediterranean Flintlock That Outlasted Its Era

Mississippi Firearms History

Missouri Firearms History: From the Frontier to Constitutional Carry

Mongol Conquests and Gunpowder: How the World's Largest Land Empire Rewired the History of Firearms

Montana Firearms History: From Territorial Laws to Constitutional Carry

Mossberg

Mossberg 500

MP 18: The Maschinenpistole That Invented a Weapons Class

Natchez Shooters Supplies

National Bench Rest Shooters Association (NBRSA)

National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA)

National Rifle Association of America

National Rifle League (NRL)

National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)

National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA)

National Sporting Clays Association (NSCA)

National Xball League (NXL)

Nebraska Firearms History: From the Platte River Trail to Constitutional Carry

Nevada Firearms History: From the Comstock Lode to the Las Vegas Strip

New Hampshire Firearms History

New Jersey Firearms History: From Colonial Forges to the Nation's Strictest Gun Laws

New Mexico Firearms History: From Conquistadors to Constitutional Carry

New York Firearms History: From Dutch Colonies to the SAFE Act

Nighthawk Custom

Norma

North Carolina Firearms History

North Dakota Firearms History: From Territorial Frontier to Constitutional Carry

Nosler

NYSRPA v. Bruen (2022)

Ohio Firearms History: From the Northwest Territory to Constitutional Carry

Oklahoma Firearms History

Optics Planet

Oregon Firearms History

Pacific International Trapshooting Association (PITA)

Palmetto State Armory

Paul Mauser: The Man Who Built the World's Bolt-Action Standard

Paul Vieille: The French Chemist Who Made Smokeless Powder Work

Pennsylvania Firearms History: From the Pennsylvania Rifle to Modern Gun Rights

Percussion Cap

Picatinny Rail (MIL-STD-1913): The Standard That Changed How Firearms Are Built

PMC Ammunition

POF-USA

Precision Rifle Series (PRS)

Primary Arms

Proof Research

Remington 700

Remington Ammunition

Remington Arms

Remington Model 870 - America's Legendary Pump Shotgun

Rhode Island Firearms History

Richard Jordan Gatling (1818–1903)

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF)

Roger Bacon: The Friar Who Gave Europe Its First Gunpowder Recipe

Roger Bacon: The Friar Who Wrote Down Gunpowder

Ruger

Ruger 10/22

Ruger 10/22: America's Most Beloved .22 Rifle

Runnings

Rural King

Sako

Savage Arms

Scheels

Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP)

Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF)

Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

Seekins Precision

Sellier & Bellot

Sierra Bullets

SIG MCX Spear (XM7 / M7): America's Next Generation Squad Weapon

SIG MCX Spear (XM7 / M7): The Army's First New Service Rifle in a Generation

Sig Sauer

Sig Sauer Ammunition

SIG Sauer P220 & P210 - The Foundation Pistols

SIG Sauer P320 / M17

Sig Sauer P365

SIG Sauer SP2022

Single Action Shooting Society (SASS)

Slow Match: The Burning Cord That Launched the Age of Firearms

Smart Gun Technology: A History of Promise, Politics, and Persistent Problems

Smith & Wesson

Smith & Wesson M&P Shield Plus

Smith & Wesson Model 29

Smokeless Powder: The Chemistry That Rewrote the Rules of War

Snaphaunce Lock: The Bridge Between Wheellock and Flintlock

South Carolina Firearms History

South Dakota Firearms History

Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI)

Sportsman's Warehouse

Springfield Armory

Springfield Armory National Historic Site

Springfield Hellcat

Springfield Model 1861: The Rifle That Defined the Civil War

Steel Challenge Shooting Association (SCSA)

StG 44 (Sturmgewehr 44): The First Assault Rifle

STI International

Submachine Gun: The Weapon That Rewrote Close-Range War

Taurus USA

Tennessee Firearms History: From Longrifles to Constitutional Carry

Texas Firearms History: From Flintlocks to Constitutional Carry

The Liberator: The First 3D-Printed Pistol

Thompson Submachine Gun

Tikka

TrackingPoint: The Precision Guided Firearm That Changed What "Accurate" Means

Tractor Supply Co.

Treaty of Versailles Arms Restrictions (1919)

Underwood Ammo

United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA)

USA Archery

USA Shooting

Utah Firearms History

Vermont Firearms History

Virginia Firearms History: From the First Colony to Constitutional Carry

Wagenburg Tactics: The Mobile Fortress That Rewrote Medieval Warfare

Walmart

Walter de Milemete: The Clerk Who Drew the Gun That Changed Everything

Walther Arms

Walther P99

Washington Firearms History: From Territorial Trails to Initiative Battles

Weatherby

West Virginia Firearms History

Wheellock: The First Self-Igniting Firearm

Wilson Combat

Winchester Ammunition

Winchester Model 1873: The Gun That Won the West

Winchester Repeating Arms

Winchester Repeating Arms Company

Wisconsin Firearms History: From Frontier Trade Guns to Constitutional Carry Debates

Wyoming Firearms History

.44-40 Winchester: The Cartridge That Armed the Frontier

.45 ACP Cartridge

.50 BMG Cartridge

1911 Pistol - America's Legendary .45 ACP Sidearm

3-Gun Nation (3GN)

3D-Printed Firearms: A History of the Technology That Changed Gunmaking

4-H Shooting Sports