Courtesy Jeff Hulbert With the sun glinting off the U.S. Capitol dome, Fortress DC remains a veritable ghost town on the day that thousands of “armed insurrectionists” were supposedly expected. Instead, there is silence. The…
Courtesy Logan Metesh Developed in 1949, the Stechkin is a select-fire, straight blowback pistol chambered in 9x18mm that’s capable of firing 750 rounds per minute accurately out to a distance of 200 meters. Or so…
Remote Control Pistol apparatus. Photo courtesy of timelapse.dk By Justin Black of Spycraft101 At the onset of the Second World War, the British Special Operations Executive formed several different research and development branches spread throughout…
In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry, military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist who was killed on Friday, during a funeral ceremony in…
The AR platform rifle is favored by American soldiers and civilians alike. (JWT for TTAG) By Mark Houser It’s a common trope of American political discourse: a politician will emphatically declare his respect for the Second…
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) The Star Spangled Banner is the only national anthem that ends with a question. Does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of…
Within two months of his eighteenth birthday, my grandpa left the Bronx, New York and was inducted into the Army of the United States. His listed civilian occupation was “boilermaker,” but he was on his…
Courtesy FN America The US Army has been talking about replacing the venerable M249 Squad Automatic Weapon — more affectionately known as the SAW — for years. But they’ve continually found that it’s awfully hard…
Courtesy Robert J. O’Neill and Twitter From the Associated Press: A former Navy SEAL who has said he killed Osama bin Laden has been banned by Delta Air Lines after removing his face mask during…
Peter C. Schechter Whether selling or buying a gun, doing so by the auction process has both risks and rewards. There is also the possibility of surprises, sometimes bad and other times good. This is…