Throughline producer Lawrence Wu tells Cristina Kim all about the maxim gun—the world's first automatic machine gun—and the lengths he took to find out exactly how this 19th century weapon would have ...

In 1866, Hiram Maxim, an American engineer, tried out a rifle for the first time and found himself wondering how he could make it better. The result was the Maxim gun – the word’s first ...

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The Maxim machine gun was first introduced to significant combat by the U.S. Army during World War I. In 1912, each regiment received four of these machine guns, believing this quantity would be ...

Earlier this month, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced an initiative to help combat the alarming proliferation of machine gun conversion devices (MCDs), commonly referred to as ...

Army Rangers are among the most elite forces in the U.S. military, and the weapons they rely on reflect that level of performance. From Vietnam to modern special operations, their firearms have ...