Rifles fitted with telescopic sights were used in warfare long before World War I. Some amazing feats of marksmanship were reported during the American Civil War with the surprisingly accurate ...

during World War I, but it was dropped from service in the mid-1920s. Only seven Model 1898 Krag rifles fitted with the Cataract telescopic sight were ever fabricated under U.S. government ...

Civil War rifles were accurate for hundreds of yards, with some being deadly at up to 1,000 yards. (These are the 14 guns that helped fight the Revolutionary War.) To compile a list of 22 guns ...

Bell had traveled alongside the Union troops as a camp worker — not an uncommon role for African Americans at this early point in the Civil War ... He picked up a gun and fired it at the ...

As East Germany began receiving new weapons from the Soviet Union, sold 4,500 of its World War II-vintage assault rifles to Syria in 1964, along with ammunition, conducted under relative secrecy.

The telescopic rifle, widely introduced in this country during the Civil War, allowed for attack with unprecedented stealth, a technological leap akin in our time to the military drone.

The weapon, a .38-caliber long rifle was used by William Ross during the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, the assistant to the curator of the Confederate Museum Joseph Ricci said during a ...