According to legend, the Greek engineer Archimedes of Syracuse designed a pump that moved water up by using a screw inside a sealed shaft. The Evans lever-action rifle, designed by a dentist in Maine, uses the same mecha...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/08/A-Rifle-Design-Based-on-Archimedess-Screw/
Yes, the shoulder stock of this AK-47 is from a shovel. That's not the impressive part. The receiver--the housing for the action--is also from a shovel. Yes, really! Boris melted, reforged, reshaped, cut and welded the b...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/26/Man-Builds-a-Rifle-from-a-Shovel/
This .50-caliber wheellock musket, propularly known as the Mayflower Gun, is thought to be the only surviving firearm among those that crossed the Atlantic with the Pilgrims. It has been traced back to John Alden, tradit...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/22/The-iMayfloweri-Gun-The-Only-Surviving-Firearm-from-the-Pilgrims/
The Porter Revolving Turret Rifle was an experimen... ...Porter designed it to fill a demand for repeating rifles during the percussion cap era. It featured multip...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/03/Vertically-Revolving-Rifle/
Enemies can be anywhere, so during the 1970s, the Soviet Union developed guns that could fire underwater. This selective fire rifle, the APS (Avtomat Podvodnyj Spetsialnyj), was among them. It could fire 5.66 mm darts fr...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/06/Underwater-Rifle/
This unusual weapon was designed by Isaiah Jenning... ...Isaiah Jennings of New York in 1821. Unlike most rifles of the time, the user didn't have to reload after...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/03/12-Shot-Repeating-Flintlock-Rifle/
I once promised that if someone ever made a Fluttershy Mosin-Nagant rifle, I would post it at Neatorama. This is not it, but it's awfully close: a Fluttershy SKS. The SKS was the Soviet Union's semi-automatic replacement...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/19/iMy-Little-Ponyi-Rifle/
The Sketchy Design Studio's Andromeda project is a lamp that looks like a modern rifle. It features three Picantinny rails which are not only stylish, but functional. They can be used to adjust the height or attach a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/18/tactical-lamp/
We've got MLP shotguns and MLP handguns, so le... ...uns, so let's round out the gunsafe with some MLP rifles . I don't know who made this awesome Rainbow Dash...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/17/my-little-pony-rifle/
While browsing through the archives of Ian McCollum's marvelous Forgotten Weapons blog, I came across this unusual and curvaceous rifle design. It's Nikolai Afanasiev's TKB-011 2M automatic rifle from the mid 1960s. The...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/28/weird-but-beautiful-old-soviet-rifle/
