Key Points - The Uzi, designed by Major Uziel Gal and adopted by the Israel Defense Forces in 1955, is one of history's most iconic submachine guns. Its innovative design, inspired by the Czech CZ 25, ...

It’s rare when a gun is truly mysterious and we can’t answer why it was made, who used it, or why it succeeded or failed. Today’s case is more bizarre... I often run across curious weapons from around ...

Tom Hanks famously depicted Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan” toting his trusty Thompson submachine gun — “Tommy gun” — from the beaches of Normandy far into the interior of France in 1944.