Revolver
Starr DA & SA Revolvers at RIA (Video)
Starr revolvers are one of the less recognized designs used in the US Civil War, although tens of thousands of them were made and issued. Indeed, in many ways they were superior to the much […]
Prototype
Toolroom Prototype Smith & Wesson No.3 Revolver
Lot 3197 in the September 2020 RIA Premier auction. Good inventors are always trying out new solutions to problems. Those solutions may or may not work (hence Thomas Edison’s 10,000 ways not to make a […]
Light MGs
Stoner 63A Automatic Rifle – The Original Modular Weapon
The Stoner 63 was a remarkably advanced and clever modular firearm designed by Eugene Stoner (along with Bob Fremont and Jim Sullivan) after he left Armalite. The was tested by DARPA and the uS Marine […]
“I’ve actually shot EM-2s in both .280 and 7.62” – possibly the one sentence that makes me green with envy . . .
1) Don’t you disrespect my M14!
2) It’s a miracle that any T48’s survived and they weren’t all scrapped
3) For a reference that thoroughly damns the Ordnance Corps, I refer you to
“Misfire: The Story of How America’s Small Arms Have Failed Our Military”
– https://www.amazon.com/Misfire-Story-Americas-Failed-Military/dp/0684193590
Just like to point out that the trigger guard on the L1A1 did in fact fold inside the pistol grip. There is a slot in the front of the grip, covered by a plate. You have to unscrew the plate, flip the guard inside and screw it back on.