A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel)...

or "sliding block". At the time of development of the first modern breechloaders in the mid-19th century, gunpowder propellant charges for artillery...

the first breechloader firing a metallic cartridge in regular British service, the Martini was designed from the outset as a breechloader and was both...

Werndl-Holub M1867 rifles to arm the military. The rifle was a lifting block breechloader chambered for the 14×33mm Wänzel rimfire cartridge. The Austrians converted...

are also described by the type of action employed (e.g. muzzleloader, breechloader, lever, bolt, pump, revolver, semi-automatic, fully automatic, etc.)...

started the conversion of the existing percussion revolvers into the breechloaders using .450 Boxer centerfire cartridges, and simultaneously, the production...

The Merrill carbine was a breechloader firearm designed by Baltimore, Maryland gunsmith and inventor James H. Merrill. It was one of several firearms either...

firearm. Its history is closely associated with the development of the breechloader, which would eventually replace all muzzle-loading firearms. The cartridge...

even a breechloader that only achieved the same rate of fire as a muzzle-loading musket would still be superior to the musket, as the breechloader could...

by the Austro-Hungarian army on 28 July 1867. It replaced the Wänzl breechloader conversion of the muzzle-loading Lorenz rifle. Josef Werndl (1831–1889)...