AP: High School Gun Clubs Teach Patience, Discipline, Responsibility
School shooting teams were common through most of the sixties. They suffered an enormous decline with the war on guns, beginning with the Gun Control Act of 1968, extending to the turn of the...
A Wedding Present Fit for Royalty
Ernest Hemingway, George Eastman, Elmer Keith, Jimmy Stewart … and Princess Diana. While it may seem as though one of these things is not like the other, they all share a common bond: Guns...
The Baltimore Show: A Museum You Can Buy
The Maryland Arms Collectors Association has hosted the Baltimore Antique Arms Show each spring since 1954. Regarded as one of the premier events in the country, it is on the “gun bucket list” of...
Book Review – War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage is one of those works that induce an "Aha!" moment in observers of the human condition. I first read it over a decade ago and have...
Martin Fry’s M1807/8 Flintlock Martial Pistol
While our country has had official arsenals for almost as long as we’ve been around (Springfield and Harpers Ferry were founded when George Washington was president), they didn’t always make all of the guns...
Cimarron Buffalo Bill Signature Series Frontier Revolver Revealed
Our man Taylor gave TTAG readers the heads-up on Cimarron's new Buffalo Bill Signature Series Frontier Revolver in his SHOT Show coverage. Flash forward a month or so and the Texas-based gunmaker's rolling out...
NRA-ILA: The Myth of Effective Wild West Gun Control Exploded
The NRA-ILA writes having a gun control problem.” Tombstone (with a population that hovered around 3,500) had enacted Ordinance No. 9, effective April 1881, to prohibit carrying any deadly weapon within city limits...
Colt Model 1855 Full Stock Sporting Revolving Rifle: Obscure Object of Desire
From rockislandauctions.com: Most of us have seen a Colt “Sidehammer,” but few have had the pleasure of seeing a fully stocked Sporting Rifle. These sidehammers (in all their forms) also go by the nickname...
KRISS USA Launches Edelweiss Arms Selling Direct-to-Consumer European Relics and Curios
Press release: March 1, 2018 – Chesapeake, Virginia, USA - Today KRISS USA, manufacturers and developers of the KRISS® Vector family of firearms, launch Edelweiss Arms, a new division focused on the import and sale of C&R...
War Planes Protected by Cartridge Catchers
Airplanes were still relatively new when they were pressed into service during World War I. Because of this, a number of hurdles had to be overcome to ensure that this new machine could become...
World War One’s Pistol Periscope
World War I saw a great number of “firsts” in combat that needed to be addressed because conventional warfare had never dealt with such things before. Namely, this includes poison gas, tanks, airplanes, etc.
Trench...
I Like Big Guns And I Cannot Lie . . .
In the video below RealLifeLore ask What's the Biggest Gun We Could Possibly Build? Personally, I couldn't "build" a BIC pen spitball gun. But I know enough to know that RLL's missed a trick ....