Laszlo Montgomery runs the China History Podcast, and today he posted a show we recorded talking about Warlord Era pistols – but he also has a whole slew of material on pretty much every aspect […]
Interested in Chinese Warlord Era pistols? Check out my new book, Pistols of the Warlords! Henry Chan of 9 Hole Reviews was a big help to me throughout the writing of Pistols of the Warlords, […]
Don’t miss the Kickstarter-exclusive version of “Pistols of the Warlords”! Today I am going to actually do some shooting with a Chinese Warlord Era pistol – a Shanghai Model 1900 Pistol-Carbine. As I described in […]
Get in on the “Pistols of the Warlords” Kickstarter today! Not all of the handguns made in China during the Warlord Era were made one at a time by individual artisan gunsmiths. A few models […]
The Kickstarter for my new book, “Pistols of the Warlords” is live here! William E. Fairbairn is best know for his work with Eric Sykes and their “”Commando” knife design during World War Two. However, […]
Interested in these guns? Check out the Kickstarter for my new book on the subject, “Pistols of the Warlords”! In the course of researching Chinese domestic pistols of the Warlord Era, I sorted through several […]
Check out the Kickstarter-exclusive options for my new book, “Pistols of the Warlords”! One of the most popular pistols in Warlord Era China was the FN 1900, a compact and reliable officer’s pistol in .32 […]
The first semiauto commercial AK rifles to enter the US were Finnish Valmets. These established a US collector interested but while excellent in quality, they did not quite fit the visual pattern of the classic […]
Lot 1685 in the RIA September 2020 Premier auction. With the commercial success of the semiauto Type 56S AK rifles in the US, Norinco looked for other options for export rifles to sell. Given the […]
Lot 1487 in the September 2020 RIA Premier auction. The Type 64 is a dedicated suppressed pistol first introduced in 1965 and used in the Vietnam War. It uses a rimless version of the .32 […]
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