Prototype
Throwback Thursday: A .22 Rifle for John Wayne
Today I’m reposting part of an interview I did with L James “Jim” Sullivan back in 2014. Aside from being one of the two men who did the conversion of the AR-10 into the AR-15, […]
United States
Antiques
Dodge Patent Prototype Rolling Block Rifle
William Dodge and his brother were inventors in Washington DC who in the 1870s patented a bunch of different improvements to the Remington Rolling Block, among other guns. This particular one I cannot identify with […]
Conversion
Spitfire: The Semiauto That Became a Machine Gun
The Spitfire is a firearm with an interesting importance in legal history. Originally designed and marketed as an open-bolt semiautomatic-only carbine, it was determined to be a machine gun under the law in 1968, and […]
Antiques
Unique Rotating Single-Shot Percussion Rifle
This is a very unusual single-shot muzzleloading rifle. It is devoid of markings that might identify it, but appears (to my eye, anyway) to have been built from what was originally intended to be a […]
Slow motion
ZX-7 American Sterling at the Range
Today we are taking the ZX-7 (essentially a Sterling SMG in .45 ACP) out to the range. It runs rather faster than I initially expected, but isn’t too hard to handle…
Submachine Guns
PAWS ZX-7: An American Sterling in .45 ACP
An American entrepreneur named Bob Imel found the Sterling SMG particularly interesting, and wanted to import them into the United States. He reached out to Sterling in 1967, but was unable to work out a […]
Combination gun
Weirdly Late “Buck-N-Ball” – Standard Arms 50 Caliber “Camp” Gun
Standard Arms was an early (circa 1909) manufacturer of self-loading hunting rifles in the US. The made the Model G, a rifle which could function either as a self-loader or a pump action manual repeater. […]
Slow motion
All the Blammo: HK51 at the Range
Just how concussive is the HK51? And how hard is it to control? Let’s find out!
Conversion
HK51: The SAS’ Full Auto Flashbang Dispenser
The HK51 is not a gun that was ever actually produced by Heckler & Koch. It is instead a variation on the G3/HK91 originally developed by American H&K specialist Bill Fleming. He was contracted by […]
Antiques
Remington’s Revolving Rifle: Not Expensive, but not Successful
While Colt put significant effort into developing a revolving rifle design, Remington chose to simply use their existing New Model revolver architecture. Remington introduced it’s Revolving Rifle (it had no other model name) in 1865, […]