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SIG P320 Flux Legion / Flux Raider: The Best Pistol-PDW System Yet

December 18, 2024 Ian McCollum 50
The Flux Raider is a chassis system designed to turn the SIG P320 into a very compact PDW. The design concept began as a desire to improve the practical accuracy of a handgun by adding […]
Semiauto pistol

Daniel Defense H9: The Hudson Reborn and Completely Reengineered

December 16, 2024 Ian McCollum 16
In 2017, Hudson released a new pistol that was the darling of the firearms industry. It purported to offer a radically low bore axis and 1911-style trigger in a striker-fired system that would be fast […]
Machine pistol

Beretta 93R: The Best Machine Pistol?

December 13, 2024 Ian McCollum 14
The Beretta 93R (“Raffica”) was developed in the 1970s by Beretta engineer Paolo Parola at the request of Italian military special forces. It took the basic Beretta 92 pistol design and added a well-thought-out burst […]
Revolver

Best of American and Europe: the Webley No5 Express New Army

December 6, 2024 Ian McCollum 13
Webley introduced their No5 Express New Army model revolver in 1878. This was essentially a ruggedized and scaled up variation on the No5 RIC revolvers that was very popular with police forces. The RIC was […]
Semiauto pistol

“Grey Ghost” – The French Occupation Production P38 Pistol

November 23, 2024 Ian McCollum 34
When the French took over control of the Mauser factory complex in May 1945, the plant had some 85 tons of pistol parts on hand – 7.3 million individual components in various stages of production. […]
Semiauto pistol

P99: The Pistol that Rejuvenated Walther

November 20, 2024 Ian McCollum 21
For a couple decades after World War Two, Walther survived on legacy designs – the PP/PPK and P38 (eventually made with an aluminum frame as the P4) primarily. In the 1970s they developed the P5 […]
Percussion

A DAO Service Revolver in the Civil War: the Pettengill Army

November 15, 2024 Ian McCollum 8
The Pettengill revolver is a 6-shot, muzzleloading double-action-only system designed and patented by C.S. Pettengill in 1856, and improved by Edward Raymond and Charles Robitaille in 1858. In 1859, the Rogers & Spencer company was […]
Revolver

Colt Boa: Rarest of the Snake Revolvers

November 13, 2024 Ian McCollum 20
Of the seven revolvers Colt named after snakes, the rarest is the Colt Boa. Only a single production run of these were made totaling just 1,200 guns. They were made in 1985 as a custom […]
Semiauto pistol

Portuguese Navy Lugers: Model m/910 from DWM and Mauser

November 2, 2024 Ian McCollum 0
Following Portuguese Army adoption in 1908, the Portuguese Navy adopted the Luger in 1909 as the m/910. The pattern they chose was a “new model” Luger in 9x19mm, with a 100mm / 4” barrel. A […]
Revolver

Enfield MkII: Better Than the MkI, I Guess

November 1, 2024 Ian McCollum 3
The Enfield MkI had only been in service for two years when the MkII was adopted in March 1882 to resolve some of its problems (and reduce its cost). At the same time, a new […]

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