The Dardick 1500 was a magazine-fed revolver designed by David Dardick in the 1950s. His patent was granted in 1958, and somewhere between 40 and 100 of the guns were made in 1959, before the […]
In 1934 (just year before officially requesting that the Western world call his country “Iran” rather than “Persia”), the Shah of Iran ordered 4,000 Luger pistols form the Mauser company. These were to be divided […]
The US first tested the Luger in 1901, and it seemed potentially good enough that the government spent $15,000 to buy 1,000 of the pistols (in 7.65mm Luger; the only cartridge available at the time) […]
Fair disclaimer: I may be biased, as I am a co-author of this work… Vickers Guide is back with the second volume on the AK, specifically on 5.45mm and 5.56mm Kalashnikovs. If you like […]
Forgotten Weapons Merchandise While we await final printing, preorders for my book are still open. No preordering for Max’s book yet, but check out his announcement! And here’s RecoilTV…
Joseph Chambers invented a repeating flintlock weapon in the 1790s, and I think it is appropriate to consider it a “machine gun”. The design used a series of superposed charges in one or more barrels, […]
0:00:36 – Why so few .380 ACP military pistols? 0:02:09 – Thoughts on the NGSW program guns 0:03:24 – Exciting new things in the firearms industry today 0:04:21 – Why did the USSR not use […]
Cooey is a brand name that will be immediately recognized by Canadians, but pretty much unknown everywhere else. Founded in 1903 by Herbert Cooey, the company would produce a series of simple and practical firearms […]
With the Morphy’s fall 2019 auction now complete, it’s time to take a look at what the market says guns are worth. This time, it’s mostly submachine guns – with an interesting mix of transferrable […]
Courtesy of Legacy Collectibles, we have a variety of pistols to look at today which were taken as souvenirs by American GIs when the Walther factory was captured in April of 1945. Walther was making […]
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