SPRINGFIELD — More than five decades ago, staff at the Springfield Armory Museum walked in to discover someone had pried open a display case and taken a rare Model 1842 percussion cap pistol. On that ...

At 63, armorer R. Vern Crofoot likes 1870s percussion cap guns well enough, but it is Revolutionary-era flintlocks and their earlier predecessors, the matchlocks, that are his specialty and passion.

Tucked into a darkened, first-floor gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, past the imposing field armor of an obese, gout-riddled Henry VIII, a small exhibition entitled “The Art of London ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This .28-caliber percussion pistol with a distinctive underhammer design was made in Qualla Town, now Cherokee, North ...