The annexed engravings are views of im- I provements in breech loading fire-arms invented by Wm. W. Marston, of this city, auc fdr which a patent was granted on the 8th of January (1851,) also the ...

A four-year-old boy died and his mother was injured when a 15-year-old accidentally discharged a firearm at a poultry farm in ...

This early 16th century cast iron, breech-loading cannon is the only one of its kind in Wales. It is designed to be carried on a ship of war and fired through a gun port on the side of the hull.

The key here is that they’ve gone through the extra effort of designing and building honest-to-goodness artillery rounds for their Potowitzer’s manual breech-loading mechanism. Foregoing the ...