The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous ... thousands by machine gun and artillery ...

The machine ... gun design in a basement flat in east London. One of Maxim's early prototypes could fire 666 rounds in a minute – around 11 bullets every second. In the battlefield conditions of ...

U.S. law defines a machine gun as a weapon that automatically fires more than one shot with a single pull of a trigger. The definition also includes any parts designed to convert a weapon into a ...

Machine gun conversion devices, or “Glock switches,” enable a weapon to fire multiple rounds with a single squeeze of the trigger, the law enforcement source said. The devices are illegal and ...