The Lewis Machine Gun, with its large cylindrical jacket surrounding the barrel and distinctive top-mounted pan magazine, is one of the most recognizable military arms of all time.

A underside view of cartridges loaded into the 47-round pan magazine of the Lewis light machine gun.

With its top-mounted pan magazine the Pulemyot Degtyaryova Pekhotny (Degtyaryov’s infantry machine gun)—better known as the DP-28—looked archaic but it proved to be a very efficient design ...

Cartridges were loaded into large pan magazines, the large metallic disks that sat just in front of the gun’s rear sight. The magazines came in two sizes, a thin 47-round or bulkier 97-round size.

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a fresh gun-rights appeal, refusing to question the District of Columbia’s ban on ...

Gloria Pan is the senior vice president of MomsRising, a group which works on gun safety. She's also a key member of the AAPI Against Gun Violence Coalition.

A Guide to Mass Shootings in America There have been at least 151 in the past four decades—and most of the killers got their guns legally. Mark Follman, Gavin Aronsen, and Deanna Pan Updated ...

Columbus gun owners have until July 1 to get rid of 30 or more round magazines to comply with a new city ordinance.