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Followup on IMA’s “Family Guns” TV Show
In the last couple days, I have had a couple folks tell me privately that I’m being too harsh on IMA, and shouldn’t have commented on their upcoming TV show “Family Guns” without having seen […]
Book review
Book Review: Mannlicher Military Rifles
We really liked the last book we reviewed by Paul Scarlata (German Gewehr 88 “Commission” Rifle), and so we decided to grab another one off the shelf. Today, it’sMannlicher Military Rifles, and Scarlata does another […]
Machine pistol
Brazilian PASAM Machine Pistol
We’re happy to have another guest article for you today, this time written by Ronaldo Olive of Brazil. This was originally printed in Combat Handguns in the 1980s, and we’re reprinting it with Ronaldo’s permission […]
Commentary
“Jersey Combat” – New TV Show about IMA
All I could do was groan and shake my head when I saw an ad for IMA‘s upcoming new TV show in their latest Shotgun News ad. We know a TV program was in the […]
Handgun
Lorenzoni Flintlock Repeating Pistol
Today we have one of the oldest guns we’ve looked at, a Lorenzoni repeating flintlock pistol. The system was designed by an Italian gunmaker in Florence name Michele Lorenzoni. They were made in very small […]
Select-fire Rifles
Syrian Sturmgewehr Cache
Allah ackbar indeed! Why can’t I ever find a storeroom full of Sturmgewehrs? If anyone reading this has contacts in Syria,you might consider recommending that they try to exchange them on some international market for […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: For Queen and Country
I am not familiar with this style of handy card table Maxim mount.
Semiauto pistol
Book review
Book Review and a Refinishing Discount
As always, we have a book review to look at today, but we also have a neat video we put together for GunLab on hydroprint refinishing. On a recent trip down to Florida we had […]