Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons starting at 1364 with the first recorded use of a firearm and ending in 1892 with the introduction of automatic handguns. 1364 - First ...

The New Yorker "Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs and Steel] must be added to their select ...

FACT: Restrictive gun control laws are a distinctly modern phenomenon in the United States. For the first century of American history, serious state-level regulation of individual gun ownership or ...

Even the photo of a musket and an AR-15 juxtaposed above Stevens’ column to illustrate the antiquatedness of gun rights in the modern age misjudges history. Just as the First Amendment protects ...