The Luger pistol is one of the most iconic firearms ever built, and has been a favorite of collectors for many decades. Not surprisingly, there is a lot of literature out there on the Luger […]
Remember, today is your last chance to enter our DVD giveaway and get some cool free stuff! We’re drawing the two winners tomorrow, so if you haven’t entered yet, check out the contest page ASAP! […]
I’m not sure where it started, but the “obrez” has gained a decent bit of recognition among gun folks (particularly gun folks on the internet). The concept is a Mosin-Nagant rifle with the barrel cut […]
Yesterday, we took a look at the Japanese Hamada pistol from World War II – a very rare piece that is extremely difficult to find information on. The only reason we were able to provide […]
A couple weeks ago, the folk at Weaponsman sent us a photo of an odd pistol on display – unlabeled – at the Special Forces Museum at Fort Bragg. They were wondering if we know […]
We have another experimental German WWII piece for you today, Mauser’s last-ditch “Volkspistole”. It was developed at the end of the war as an extremely inexpensive home guard weapon, although how much use a pistol […]
We’re happy to have another guest article for you today, this time written by Ronaldo Olive of Brazil. This was originally printed in Combat Handguns in the 1980s, and we’re reprinting it with Ronaldo’s permission […]
Today we have one of the oldest guns we’ve looked at, a Lorenzoni repeating flintlock pistol. The system was designed by an Italian gunmaker in Florence name Michele Lorenzoni. They were made in very small […]
In 1925, the Imperial Japanese Army adopted the Type 14 pistol, which was produced in large numbers during WWII. It looks outwardly pretty similar to a Luger, but i mechanically very different. What many folks […]
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