Six-Shooting Diamonds In The Rough: Colt Police Positive and Smith & Wesson Model 10...
As a collector, I usually walk by heavily used and abused guns, the ones that have been ridden hard and put away wet. But that isn't the case all the time. A normal run-of-the-mill...
Four Revolvers That Went To War
Colt and Smith & Wesson...two iconic American firearm manufacturers. These are the names that come to mind when it comes to classic Americana for pistols and revolvers. Their glory days, some would argue, were...
Intellectual Bankruptcy: Trying to Preserve Gun Control in the US Using a 14th Century...
By MarkPA
Much is made of the 1328 Statute of Northampton to minimize or even to deny the right to bear arms. Northampton seems to be the core of the 9th Circuit’s opinion in Young...
Much Has Changed in the Last 20 Years…and Much Has Remained the Same
Frenzied pounding on the front door woke me; pounding, blended with shouts to turn on the television. It wasn’t even seven in the morning yet in Washington State, and I was alone because my...
The Assassin Who Came In From The Cold: 1950s Russian Spy Weapons
The following comes from Justin at Spycraft 101 and is only a small excerpt -- the most firearms-centric part -- of his blog post entitled The Assassin Who Came In From The Cold:
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Retro Polymer: HK’s VP70Z, GLOCK’s P80, & IM Metal’s HS2000
I still remember coming of age as a shooter when the polymer revolution happened. I went from shooting K-Frame S&W Revolvers and Beretta Wonder-Nines to those crazy Austrian Polymer Pistols that everyone thought wouldn't...
Book Review: ‘Born Ballistic’ by Bob Nosler
Have you ever heard of Nosler Produce? What about Nosler Trucking? Did you know Nosler was once owned by Leupold, or that it took a generation to get it back to the Nosler family?...
9mm Kurz Wunderwaffe Wettbewerb: Walther PPK vs SIG P230SL
Before the age of the micro-compact double stack polymer framed 9mm pistol, there was were two elegant, more refined (though lower capacity) options; the Walther PPK and SIG Sauer P230. They were considered by...
The Guns of the Highway Patrol: A Three-Way Six-Incher Showdown:
There was once a time when your average Highway Patrolman anywhere in the U.S. carried a six shooter, but not just any six shooter. Oh no, they carried six-inch blasters chambered in the mythical...
Gun Review: US Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 (M1 Garand)
Let's face it. The vast majority of guns are rather boring. Not from a "yee-haw!" perspective, but from the perspective of mechanical ingenuity and history. The modern AR-15 may be the best example. As...
The Gun That Never Went On Duty: AMT’s On Duty Pistol
Arcadia Machine & Tool was a company made famous by the hit 1980s sci-fi action/horror film, Terminator.
AMT was founded in 1977 in Irwindale, California and making their claim to fame by developing a number...
GLOCK’s Forgotten Six Inchers
The GLOCK Model 17L and Model 24 are two of my favorites from that plucky little Austrian company you may be familiar with. Yet they happen to be among their lowest sellers. I think...