This is every rifle the Marine Corps has issued to Marines in the service's 250-year history, from muskets to M4s.

The American Revolution’s humble beginnings 250 years ago are reflected in a cut down, beat up, old musket — one that even experts recognize isn’t much to look at. “If that gun was on a table, ...

The Model 1863 Springfield Rifle Musket has its beginnings in the Crimean War when the Pattern 1853 Enfield Rifle Musket was the world's premier infantry weapon. Concurrently, the U.S. government ...

But drawing relevant analogies between some of these historical laws and contemporary ones will be perilous work. Is a modern AR-15-style rifle relevantly similar to a colonial musket? In what ways?

To date, the legal debate over the Second Amendment has largely assumed that gun technology unfolds over time according to a single, linear logic, from the colonial flintlock musket to the modern ...

Of course, originally a musket was a smoothbore, muzzleloading arm generally of larger caliber, and it was longer than a carbine. With the introduction of the rifle-musket, the designation ...

As regards precision, the musket was sighted to hit point-blank at 150 yards, but so inaccurate was it that Col. Charles Hay, who was appointed Commandant of Hythe when the school of Musketry was ...