Time was, a gun with two barrels was thought quaintly ... s a hundred-odd years old—simply because you don’t know what’s been done to the barrels in the mean time. They may have been rebored ...

Alec Baldwin claims he didn’t pull the trigger — he pulled the hammer back and released it, believing the gun that fired and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust was not ...

Since the hammer is cocked after you load a DA pistol, what’s the point of a trigger that will also cock the hammer? Well, it’s a safety thing. Because some—particularly in law enforcement ...

You should be angry that gun ban organizers think you are stupid enough to fall for their trickery. Marion P. Hammer is a former president of the National Rifle Association and is currently the ...

With the hammer in the quarter- and half-cock positions, the gun "could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger," the report stated. With the hammer fully cocked, the gun "could not be ...

What’s the deal with single action vs double action ... The only thing the trigger of a single action (SA) handgun does is release a cocked hammer to fire the gun. With a double action (DA ...