Throughout the 1800s, firearm development was cartridge development. Engineers, inventors, gunsmiths, and crackpots tried various ways to speed reloads by integrating fulminate primer, powder, and ...

A few years ago, most police agencies would not have considered reloading metallic cartridges as a means of providing practice ammunition. However, one does not have to look hard to find news of ...

Rimfire and centerfire show up in gun shop and range talk, but their names hide a simple idea: where the firing pin strikes the cartridge. In a rimfire round the primer is inside the rim, so the gun ...