The accident is altogether unprecedented; nothing like it could have happened to a manufactory of common black gunpowder ... specific gravity of ordinary gun-powder; or, in other words, for ...

Combine this with powdered sugar and you’ve got gun powder. Don’t believe that it works? You can see the fiery goodness in the clip after the break. Flammable and explosive materials are ...

1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside. A shooter uses one hand for firing ...

The Browning M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun, Heavy barrel is an automatic, recoil operated, air-cooled machine gun with adjustable headspace and is crew transportable with limited amounts of ...

It was these drawbacks that led Stuart Semple to create his own incredibly black paint. Over the years, he’s refined the formula and improved its performance, steadily building a greater product ...

This story originally published in the December 2015 issue of POWDER (44.4). FIRST MORNING OF THE TRIP in Jackson ... cleared a space on the counter, plugged a black industrial-sized blender into the ...

This story originally published in the December 2015 issue of POWDER (44.4). KIM REICHHELM IS 50 FEET ABOVE ASPEN MOUNTAIN, applying shimmer lip balm and discussing the most practical way to fly from ...

The best gun cases of 2023 cover a lot of territory. There are heavy-duty cases for traveling with rifles, cases that protect your firearms from rust, cases that transport your firearms discreetly, ...

Dan Bennett / Flickr.com / Wikimedia Commons / CC by 2.0 A black market is a transaction platform, whether physical or virtual, where goods or services are exchanged illegally. What makes the ...

Popular in powder form, some collagen powders even feature added nutrients—like amino acids—as well as delicious flavors, like chocolate and hazelnut. But, with a wide range of powders ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that v ...

Diversity is down at some of the nation’s most selective colleges this fall. The share of Black students entering Amherst College fell to 3%, from 11% last school year. At the University of ...