Shootering a Sporterized Swedish Mauser
By Mike Searson The Swedish Mauser is one of the more exciting Mausers from both a historical perspective and that of the dedicated shooter. These small ring Mausers were developed at the end of the…
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The FGC-9: Emergency Civilian Armament In Countries With Strict Gun Control
In a previous post, I briefly shared the story of the FGC-9, and its appearance in Burma’s ongoing conflict. Despite facing incredible brutality after a military coup, and living in a country that was already…
To Protect Itself From the Mainland, Taiwan Must Trust Its People With Arms (Part 1)
Taiwan is increasingly in the news lately. More frequent mainland Chinese military threats to the island, Communist Chinese aircraft violating Taiwan’s airspace, and tough talk toward the United States have made it an increasing topic…
A Tale of Revolver Decline and the Rebirth of the Prancing Pony
Colt is a name that’s synonymous with the .38 Special six-shot snub nose wheel gun. Going all the way back to 1927, with the introduction of their D-Framed Detective Special, they colt made made a…
Six-Shooting Diamonds In The Rough: Colt Police Positive and Smith & Wesson Model 10 Revolvers
As a collector, I usually walk by heavily used and abused guns, the ones that have been ridden hard and put away wet. But that isn’t the case all the time. A normal run-of-the-mill guns…
Four Revolvers That Went To War
Colt and Smith & Wesson…two iconic American firearm manufacturers. These are the names that come to mind when it comes to classic Americana for pistols and revolvers. Their glory days, some would argue, were the…
Intellectual Bankruptcy: Trying to Preserve Gun Control in the US Using a 14th Century English Law
By MarkPA Much is made of the 1328 Statute of Northampton to minimize or even to deny the right to bear arms. Northampton seems to be the core of the 9th Circuit’s opinion in Young…
Much Has Changed in the Last 20 Years…and Much Has Remained the Same
Frenzied pounding on the front door woke me; pounding, blended with shouts to turn on the television. It wasn’t even seven in the morning yet in Washington State, and I was alone because my young…
The Assassin Who Came In From The Cold: 1950s Russian Spy Weapons
The following comes from Justin at Spycraft 101 and is only a small excerpt — the most firearms-centric part — of his blog post entitled The Assassin Who Came In From The Cold: … In…
Retro Polymer: HK’s VP70Z, GLOCK’s P80, & IM Metal’s HS2000
I still remember coming of age as a shooter when the polymer revolution happened. I went from shooting K-Frame S&W Revolvers and Beretta Wonder-Nines to those crazy Austrian Polymer Pistols that everyone thought wouldn’t catch…