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How Beretta became the world’s oldest gun manufacturer

In 1977, the company founded Beretta USA, buying a bankrupt gun factory near Washington, D.C. It wasn’t a random move – ...
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500-Year-Old Gun Found in Arizona May Be the Oldest Firearm in the Continental U.S.

Archaeologists working along the Santa Cruz River just rewrote a chapter of American history. As Dario Radley reports in Archaeology News, a sand-cast bronze “wall gun” – 42 inches long and about 40 ...