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The firearms John M. Browning designed in the late 1800s and early 1900s helped define the US military, and many remain in use today.

(Department of Defense) When Gavrilo Princip shot Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, he did it with an FN Model 1910 pistol. The assassination of the archduke became the catalyst of World War I, which itself laid the groundwork for World War II, and later the Cold War. This lightweight weapon was easily concealed and perfectly engineered by American firearms designer John Moses Browning. Browning’s weapons not only changed the course of the 20th century, it would help the United S...

U.S. Army soldiers stationed along the 38th Parallel, 1951 (Image credit: Mark Ellis) It has been almost exactly 70 years since my father was assigned to a two-man bunker overlooking an anonymous ridge on the 38 th Parallel in Korea. The purpose of these outposts was to act as a trip-wire in the event of a mass attack of Chinese troops. Several weeks prior to June 1951, members of Dad’s battalion had been ambushed while patrolling the front, an ambush that cost the lives of several Army soldi...

10 Ways the Government Is Killing You Along with bankers, Bronies and the cast of Jersey Shore, politicians are among the most reviled people on Earth. When they’re not busy cheating taxpayers, they’re either making racist comments or making daily policy decisions so deranged they may indirectly kill us all. I’m talking conspiracy-theory stuff like: 10 Civilian Experimentation If there’s one thing you don’t associate with American values, its human experimentation. Yet throughout the ...

The odd-looking weapon was two submachine guns in one and was originally mounted on World War One-era biplanes.