Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The year after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, police raided the Michigan home of gangster Fred Burke, left, and ...

Invented in 1861, the Gatling gun was one of history's first rapid-fire weapons. It was operated with a hand crank that rotated its barrels. At the top of the cycle, a cartridge fell into each barrel ...

According to the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, anti-tank weaponry has come a long way. In the late 1990s, after a period of sustained research and ...

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn't a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...

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On Valentine's Day 1929, four men connected with Al Capone's Chicago gang killed seven rivals with Thompson machine guns, better known as Tommy guns. The bloody massacre shocked the nation, making ...