War Stories: Five Shermans Shot Out From Under Him

I used to love working at the VA hospital. Just like everything Uncle Sam does, the Veterans Administration is bloated, inefficient, and frustrating. However, back when I worked there as a physician we still had a proper crop of World War II veterans who needed inpatient care. That was Candyland ...

By Will Dabbs, MD

Ignoring the No Guns Sign Is the Weakest Option

You know the sticker. Small pistol in a red circle, diagonal slash through it, mounted at eye level on a door you were about to walk through. Ask around in…

By Jacob Paulsen

POTD: Flat Top Frontier – Colt New Frontier SAA in .38 Special

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Single Action Army that ditched the cowboy sights for something you can aim with. This is a second-generation Colt New Frontier in .38 Special. Colt dropped the Single Action Army in 1941 and figured that was the end of it. Then television...

By Sam.S

Top 3 Most Deceptive Movie Gun Props

I will start with an example of that: a weapon that I had plenty of experience with - MGPK, a combination of German MG 34 and Soviet PKM. It was created for the largest Soviet movie film studio called Mosfilm.

By Vladimir Onokoy

POTD: The Winchester 1 of 1,000 – Won the West and the Movies

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have one of the true holy grails of American gun collecting. This is a Winchester Model 1876 “One of One Thousand,” a rifle that sits in the same rarefied air as a Colt Walker. Here’s what the grade meant. Winchester test-fired ...

By Sam.S

POTD: The SWD M11/Nine – The Everyman’s Machine Gun, in a Briefcase

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a true piece of Cold War Americana, packaged for a spy movie. This is an SWD M11/Nine, a 9mm submachine gun, and it comes tucked into a working “briefcase gun” rig. The lineage runs back to Gordon Ingram and the famous MAC-10 of ...

By Sam.S

Savage Gear Scandal Predator: A Glide Bait Built for Musky

We covered the original Scandal glide bait back in February, when Savage Gear pointed it at largemouth and priced it as a premium bait without the boutique price tag. The musky and pike crowd has been waiting on their version, and it arrived in early July. The Scandal Predator keeps the same two ...

By Sam.S

POTD: The S&W Model 16-4 – A Magnum for the Overlooked .32

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the forgotten sibling of a famous family, reborn for a cartridge almost nobody asked for. This is the Smith & Wesson Model 16-4, chambered in .32 H&R Magnum. Back up a step. S&W’s classic K-frame target trio was the K-22 (M...

By Sam.S

Five Things to Watch as Viramontes and Grant Head to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear consolidated challenges to AR-15 bans in Cook County and Connecticut. From the Trump Justice Department’s position to the battle over Heller’s common-use test, these are the major issues gun owners should watch as Viramontes and Grant move toward oral argu...

By Mark W Smith
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