Historical

A French gun is an Obscure Object Of Desire? You're probably wondering how much wood alcohol got into the hooch I've been drinking all winter. But bear with me, because something like this gun...

The Czechoslovakian Sa Vz. 58 assault rifle has to rank high as one of the least understood and most underappreciated military rifles of the twentieth century. Case in point: for many years I thought...

By James "Bud" Harton Years ago, eons actually, I was a crew chief/door gunner on a UH-1D Iroquois helicopter in Vietnam. I was assigned to an assault company and our unit was comprised of 24...

Republished with permission from rockislandauction.blogspot.com Wild Days in Hell's Half Acre Lots of people and places of the Old West get spun into tales of "Pecos Bill" size proportions. One minute someone is a trying to...

"On 28 June 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo," Wikipedia informs. "A group of six assassins . . . gathered on the street where the Archduke's motorcade would pass. Čabrinović...

Rock Island Auctions has a couple of gen-u-ine German assault rifles on the block, including "the grandfather of all German assault rifles." Here's their take on these extraordinary firearms: Thanks to two studious German military collectors,...

Oxford Circus has long been one of London's premier shopping centers, but if you start walking southwest of that extremely busy crossroads, the crowds thin and the stores become increasingly expensive. This is the...

By Dan Baum When I can add to my collection of pre-1930 pistols for $350 or less on Gunbroker, I do so, and I've assembled a nice, idiosyncratic collection. My wife and I just spent...

At one time, the Charter Arms Undercover .38 above belonged to Arthur Bremer. Wikipedia.org informs us that Bremmer was "convicted for an assassination attempt on U.S. Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace on May 15,...

Written by Rock Island Auctions' Joel R. Kolander: In the business of firearms auctions, it is simply an unavoidable fact of life that one is going to come across what is known as a spurious...

http://youtu.be/ZlyWOqsTeMM In the video above The Firearm Guy sounds a bit like Harvey Fierstein. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything, but there it is. More to the point, TFG recommends five...

Many of the products you purchase were designed by engineers, but heavily tempered by the demands of the finance and marketing departments. "Make us a product that does X, but we need the total...