We are deeply saddened today to discover that Robert “Uncle Bob” Faris passed away last Monday, February 13th. He fell ill and was hospitalized on the 3rd and underwent surgery which left him very weak, […]
I really enjoy watching Top Shot, and the BAR will be great fun to see tonight on the show. Yes, it’s a reality TV show, and yes, I would fast forward through the drama given […]
We spoke to Timney Triggers at the SHOT Show last month, and they offered us one of their Mosin-Nagant triggers to try out, and a second one to give away. As you can see in […]
This man clearly has a high standards in personal armament. A Hall breechloading rifle for fast reloading (and interchangeable parts for easy maintenance and repair) and a Colt Walker revolver that will blow your head […]
The Charola-Anitua is an early Spanish semiauto pistol dating from 1898. The mechanism of the Charola is similar in principle to the Mauser C96, with a moving wedge being used to lock the bolt to […]
This is an excellent book to start a firearms library with. It has a lot of great information for a very affordable cost – I found my copy for $3 at a gun show, but […]
Okay, guys – I think I may have given the wrong idea when I said we are looking for a non-copyrighted picture for our holster giveaway. We don’t need a chain of custody on who […]
The Schwarzlose machine gun was developed by Andreas Schwarzlose starting in 1902, as an attempt to produce a machine gun simpler and less expensive than the guns then on the market. Schwarzlose achieved this end […]
A pointed account of the Schwarzlose M1907 aircraft machine gun, from John Biggins’ hilarious description of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in WWI, The Two-Headed Eagle (The Otto Prohaska Novels): The 8mm Schwarzlose had been the Austro-Hungarian […]
Starting in the 1920s, SIG Neuhausen tried to develop a popular submachine gun, with little success. To a significant extent, I think the Swiss manufacturing philosophy was just not well adapted to the world standard […]
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