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End of Major Construction Operations

December 29, 2011 Ian McCollum 5

Alrighty, I think we’ve got the major site layout changes done now. The new format has a couple big improvements, like automatically sizing itself to fit your monitor width. But the main reason I made […]

Fusil Mexico – One More Set of Photos

December 29, 2011 Ian McCollum 0

You may recall the Fusil Mexico from our initial post or followup – it is the interesting slide-action rifle that showed up at a Denver gun show a few months ago. Well, the owner has […]

Construction in progress…

December 27, 2011 Ian McCollum Comments Off

Please forgive the random changes you may see for the next few hours – we’re making a few changes to the site layout. We should be back running better than ever by the end of […]

Christmas felicitations from Salzburg

December 26, 2011 Ian McCollum 3

I hope you all had a happy Christmas holiday with family and friends, and maybe found something under the tree to add to your collections. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend […]

Kynoch Machine Gun

December 19, 2011 Ian McCollum 8

The Kynoch company is best known for its ammunition – to this day the brand remains a mainstay of large African hunting rounds like the Nitro Express series of cartridges. George Kynoch started the company […]

More Mexican Mondragon rifle photos

December 16, 2011 Ian McCollum 3

This may come as a surprise to some folks, but the first semiautomatic rifle adopted for military use was the M1908 Mondragon rifle designed in Mexico by Manuel Mondragon. He was granted a US patent […]

Marlin Machine Gun Quad Mount

December 14, 2011 Ian McCollum 4

I think we’ve all seen the multi-gun mounts made for Browning .50 caliber machine guns, especially the quadruple mount that was used in halftracks. Well, those are the most common quad mount out there, but […]

NFA Transfers

December 6, 2011 Ian McCollum 3

I mentioned yesterday that NFA transfer requests are up significantly this year (and have been increasing steadily back to 2005. This has led to increased wait times because it has happened in conjunction with a […]

SAR West 2011 Review and NFA stats

December 5, 2011 Ian McCollum 6

Well, it’s been another yet and another SAR West gun show. As I mentioned before, this is the only gun show around here that I attend – because you’ll find more great stuff at it […]

Vintage Saturday: A Browning 1917

December 3, 2011 Ian McCollum 0

Okay, so this photo is published in Wikipedia and doesn’t exactly qualify any more as a lost archival gem. But still, it’s neat to see a shot of a Browning 1917 along with the guy […]