Photo Of The Day: "White Satin" exemplifies the resurgence of 1970s 1911 aesthetics married to contemporary precision. The Colt Combat Commander frame sports a squared and checkered trigger guard, a hallmark of that era, paired with a Stan Chen Gen 2 magwell. Harrison Design & Consu...
At the end of the 1890s, John Moses Browning was in a weird place. He’d had a hand in designing many classic lever-action rifles (and even shotguns!) over the past years, but he realized that without some big changes to the design, lever-actions would lose a lot of market share to bolt acti...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Winchester doing the last thing you’d expect Winchester to do. This is the Winchester-Hotchkiss 1879 First Model, a bolt-action rifle from the company that owned the lever-action world. The Army wanted single-shots and never warmed to ...
The Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten emerged from necessity. In 1975, with Europe rattled by the Munich massacre and rising terrorism, Major General E.N. Spronk of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee identified an operational gap: the specialized counter-terrorist units on the books were to...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a quality little rifle from a company that barely existed. This is the Kodiak Model 260, built up in North Haven, Connecticut by an outfit that was only in business from about 1963 to 1966 (and went by “Jefferson” before that). S...
Few pistols carry the kind of personal history that Jack Carr's MK25 does. The former Navy SEAL and #1 New York Times bestselling author carried the P226/MK25 through every deployment over a twenty-year special operations career, and its fictional counterpart drove a key plot thread in his d...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a hunting rifle built on a very familiar skeleton. This is the Universal Firearms Vulcan 440, made down in Hialeah, Florida in the mid-1960s. Universal earned its keep building commercial copies of the M1 Carbine from surplus and new parts, ...
When world leaders converged, France's most elite intervention unit wasn't far behind. In fact, they were probably there ages before. The Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale was engaged at full strength in Evian-les-Bains, where France hosted the G7 Summit from June 1...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the most unusual lever gun Winchester ever built, and one a lot of folks have never handled. This is the Winchester Model 88, introduced in 1955, the first all-new lever-action Winchester had designed in roughly 60 years, and it threw out al...
Two hundred and fifty years is worth more than a flag decal, and Microtech Knives agrees. The North Carolina OTF maker dropped a limited-edition Hera II to commemorate the Semiquincentennial, dressed in patriotic Cerakote and paired with a double-edge Apocalyptic finish blade that carries the kin...