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Colombo Ricci Automatic Revolver

January 30, 2015 Ian McCollum 21
The Colombo-Ricci is (was) an automatic revolver reportedly designed in Italy around 1910, and chambered for the standard 10.4mm Italian revolver cartridge. Very little information is available on the gun, but it seems reasonable to […]
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Slow Motion: Steyr-Mannlicher M1905

January 29, 2015 Ian McCollum 32
The 1905 Steyr-Mannlicher was developed by Ferdinand Mannlicher, one of Europe’s most prolific gun designers. It uses the 7.65mm Mannlicher cartridge, which is roughly equivalent to .32 ACP, with a 10-round fixed internal magazine. The […]
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Semiauto pistol

Chinese Pistols Coming Soon!

January 23, 2015 Ian McCollum 16
I just recently spent some time at RIA doing video for their upcoming Regional auction, and happened to notice a batch of guns they were in the process of sorting and writing descriptions of for […]
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Semiauto pistol

Slow Motion: M1912 Steyr Hahn

January 22, 2015 Ian McCollum 32
The Steyr M1912, or Steyr Hahn (meaning “hammer”, to distinguish it from the striker-fired Steyr 1907) has a number of features that make it unusual among pistols today. It uses a fixed internal magazine fed […]
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Savage Prototype .25ACP (Video)

December 23, 2014 Ian McCollum 10
So, this is a video I took over a year ago, and then lost track of – a prototype .25ACP Savage pistol. It is plain blowback, not using the rotating-barrel mechanism of the mainstream .32 […]
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Eibar “Spanish Model 92” Revolver

December 10, 2014 Ian McCollum 53
Today’s post is a guest article written by Mike Burns, taking a look at one of the S&W revolver copies made in Eibar for the French military. He compares it to a WWI .455-caliber S&W […]
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Touring the Iraqi Tariq Pistol Factory

December 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 10
Nick Crawford contacted me after seeing my recent video on the Tariq pistol RIA is selling this weekend, to mention that he’d had the opportunity to poke around the factory where those pistols had been […]
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Semiauto pistol

American Eagle Lugers at RIA

December 2, 2014 Ian McCollum 20
Many people are aware of the .45 caliber Lugers made for US military field trials – but far fewer people realize that Lugers were both tested by the US military and sold commercially several years […]
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Development of the Model 1911 Pistol (Video)

December 1, 2014 Ian McCollum 25
When I was looking through the catalog for this upcoming Rock Island auction, I noticed that there were a lot of early-type Colt automatic pistols listed. I looked a bit closer, and noticed that there […]
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LeMat Centerfire Pistol and Carbine at RIA

November 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 20
Colonel LeMat is best known for his 9-shot muzzleloading .42 caliber revolver with its 20 gauge shot barrel acting as cylinder axis pin – several thousand of these revolvers were imported and used in the […]

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