POTD: Ruger PC Carbine with Custom Wood Stock and Aimpoint Micro H-2

There's something distinctly appealing about pairing a modern red dot sight with traditional wood furniture. This Ruger PC Carbine build showcases that balance beautifully, trading the polymer look of a typical 9mm pistol-caliber carbine for a custom walnut stock that gives the rifle a more ...

By Eric B •

POTD: Ruger PC4 – Carbine Everyone Forgot Ruger Already Made

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a gun that got famous twenty years after it died. This is the Ruger PC4, and if it looks familiar, that’s because Ruger’s wildly popular takedown PC Carbine of recent years is the second act. Almost nobody remembers there was a f...

By Sam.S •

POTD: Norwegian Crew Qualifies With Glock P80 & HK 416N in Barents Sea

Photo Of The Day: Norwegian Coast Guard personnel aboard the icebreaker KV Svalbard executed a small arms training exercise (GUNEX) in the Barents Sea in mid-June, qualifying with both the Glock 17 P80 sidearm and the HK416N rifles in the harsh Arctic environment. The photographs capture crew mem...

By Eric B •

POTD: The Springfield Trapdoor Carbine – Custer’s Cavalry Gun

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a carbine that rode into the most studied battle in American history. This is a Springfield Model 1873 Trapdoor carbine in .45-70, and this one falls in the serial range issued to the 7th Cavalry. In other words, it’s the type of gun G...

By Sam.S •

POTD: Glock's Limited French Contract Run

In 2020, the French Armed Forces selected the Glock 17 Gen5 as their new standard service pistol, naming it PANG for Pistolet Automatique de Nouvelle Génération. Over the next two years, Glock delivered 74,596 examples in coyote-colored polymer frames and black slides, each marked w...

By Eric B •

POTD: The Colt Model 1878 – When Colt Built Shotguns

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have something most folks don’t picture when they hear “Old West Colt.” This is a Colt Model 1878, a side-by-side hammer shotgun, and yes, the same Hartford company famous for the Peacemaker spent about a decade building high-en...

By Sam.S •

POTD: B&T Dominates Subs at EnforceTac 2026

When B&T AG brought its modular 9mm ecosystem to EnforceTac 2026 in late February, the message was pure Swiss pragmatism: submachine gun design philosophy, infinite configurations (and more to come). This trade fair caters exclusively to law enforcement, military, and security decision-makers...

By Eric B •

POTD: The Remington Model 30 – Where the Model 700 Was Born

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the rifle that started Remington’s whole bolt-action hunting empire, and it began life as war surplus. This is the Remington Model 30 Express, and its roots run straight back to World War I. When America couldn’t build enough 190...

By Sam.S •

POTD: Czech PCC Pragmatism - The PERUN 9mm Carbine

Photo Of The Day: Czech gun manufacturing brings a particular pragmatism to carbine design. PERUN Arms, building on the Czech Republic's 150-year weapons production heritage, has spent the last decade refining their Perun platform. The result of that thinking is the Perun 9 , a straightforwa...

By Eric B •

POTD: The Lindsay Two-Shot – One Barrel, Two Charges

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have one of the stranger muskets of the Civil War, with a sad story behind it. This is the Lindsay Model 1863, usually called the Lindsay Two-Shot. John P. Lindsay, a former Springfield Armory man, built it on an old and troublesome idea, the sup...

By Sam.S •
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