Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt 1851 Navy that isn’t chambered like a Colt 1851 Navy. This is one of a handful of experimental 40 caliber Navies built around 1859 and 1860, serial number 2 out of the separate range Colt used for prototypes. Colt had a gap in [...
I'll admit something that probably isn't great coming from a guy who works for a concealed carry company: for a long time, I didn't take flashlights very seriously as defensive…
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Colt’s first swing at a double action revolver. This is an 1877 “Thunderer” in 41 Long Colt with the 6 inch ejectorless Sheriff’s Model barrel, shipped in November 1877 to B. Kittredge in Cincinnati. Start with the na...
Most church security training focuses on the active shooter. De-escalation handles the situations that happen every week. Read the original story: De-Escalation in the House of Worship: A Security Skill We Can’t Ignore
People say Guntube is dying, but I can’t help thinking maybe it is dying because one person has an opinion and then ten other people in the space make videos about it. Sometimes that can lead to good discussion, but when it’s on the subject of vertical grips on rifles, all I can think is ...
The market is filled with shotguns that were made for hunting, but are no longer used for that purpose, for two reasons. The first is that they only fire “short shells” (as my neighbors like to put it).
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Single Action Army that never went west, it went to a movie set. This is a Taylor’s & Co. Uberti Model 1873 Cattleman in 45 Colt, documented as the hero gun Tim Blake Nelson carried as Buster Scruggs in the Coen Brothers’ 2...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a seven shot revolver you wear on your finger. This is a 2mm pinfire ring gun with CONFEDERATE DEFENDER engraved on the German silver band. Start with that marking, because it is nonsense. There is no Confederate connection here. These littl...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a bayonet built for a rifle chambered in 22 Short. This is the bayonet for the Remington No. 4-S American Boy Scout rifle. The story needs one correction up front. This was not a Boy Scouts of America product. In 1913 there were competing sc...
Task&Purpose reported that US Special Operations Command is looking for a new light machine gun to replace the current special forces light machine gun, the MK 46. The MK 46 was adopted in 2003 and used extensively during the Global War on Terror by various special mission units.