Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Marlin Model 19 slide-action shotgun, an early 1900s pump that came out of a messy chapter in American gun history. Back in the 1890s the pump shotgun market was a legal minefield. Francis Bannerman owned the Spencer pump patents and took ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a rifle from a name most folks know for pocket pistols. This is a Grendel SRT-20F, and it’s the only bolt action George Kellgren ever designed. Kellgren founded Grendel in 1983. The company’s first product was a ballistic knife, ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a copy of a copy. This is a Wise Lite Arms AJM 53, a semi-auto belt-fed rifle made in Boyd, Texas, and its family tree runs straight back to the MG 42. Quick lineage lesson. The Germans fielded the MG 42 in World War II, […] The post P...
One fire at a single Swiss plant is now a line item on dealer backorder reports. The work that follows is deposits, allocation status and honest lead times — not guessing at dates.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have one of the oddballs of Colt’s 1950s lineup, the Colt Courier. If you’ve never heard of it, you’re in good company, since Colt only made around 3,000 of them. The Courier was built on Colt’s D-frame, the same lightweig...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a pair of Smith & Wesson Model 1917 revolvers that never wore an American uniform. These went south to Brazil, and the contract behind them is the real story. In 1936 Brazil decided its sidearm situation was a mess. The army was carrying...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Japanese carbine with a bayonet that folds away under the barrel. This is a Arisaka Type 44 cavalry carbine in 6.5 Japanese, made at the Koishikawa arsenal in Tokyo sometime between 1911 and 1933. The “44” is the 44th year of t...
A suppressor-transfer screening tool, free employee NICS checks from November 27, a Fifth Circuit appeal and California's recording mandate — four moves that all shift dealer risk from filing the right form to proving the right decision.
Smith & Wesson is reaching back more than a century for its latest Classics release. In all honesty, yours truly thought the Classics line was gonna get shuttered or discontinued way down the line, so this is a pleasant surprise. The company just announced the return of two large-frame .45 re...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a very modern prototype, but one that marks a big moment for Colt. This is a prototype of the new Colt Cobra, a 2 inch 38 Special snub with the serial number RA0000002. Colt had been out of the double action revolver game for a […] The...