Handgun
Vintage Saturday: Liberator
Photo taken by John Brunner outside OSS headquarters in Kunming, 1945.
United States
garand development
Slow Motion: .276 Pedersen Rifle (Video)
I have assembled all the slow motion footage from my Pedersen shooting session into its own standalone video, for the folks who are interested. This does also include a malfunction that we caught on camera […]
Ammunition
Thompson Riot Ammo at James D Julia
Did you know that the Peters company made ammunition specifically for riot control for the Thompson submachine gun in the 1920s? And it wasn’t rubber bullets, either – it was paper-wrapped snakeshot. The cartridges were […]
Revolver
Massachusetts Arms Maynard-Primed Belt Revolver at James D Julia
When the Massachusetts Arms Company initially produced the Wesson & Leavitt Dragoon revolver, they quickly incurred the wrath of the colt company. Those initial revolvers violated several Colt patents. The resulting lawsuit forced the end […]
Semiauto pistol
Bren Ten: The Most Tactical Pistol!
The Bren Ten is an interesting story of handgun development and business failure. The gun was first developed by Dornaus & Dixon, with the consulting help of the iconic Col. Jeff Cooper. It was intended […]
Slow motion
Reising M55 Submachine Gun at James D Julia
When the US entered WWII, submachine guns were in short supply and high demand. Much of the production of Thompson guns was being purchased by the UK, and what guns were available to the US […]
Revolver
Confederate Dance Revolver at James D Julia
The Confederate States of America didn’t have very much capacity for manufacturing small arms, and was happy to purchase guns from anyone who could make them. Among others who got into the gun-making business during […]
Belt-fed
Shooting a Colt CMG-3 at James D Julia
In the mid/late 1960s, Colt was manufacturing AR-15 rifles and wanted to supply light machine guns to go with them – so they developed the CMG-2 (“Colt’s Machine Gun”). The CMG-2 competed against the Stoner […]
Revolver
Confederate Revolvers at James D Julia: Leech, Rigdon & Ansley
There was not much industrial production the the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War, and Confederate-made revolvers have been very collectible for a very long time. Today we’re taking a look at […]
Light MGs
The Chauchat: Shooting, History, and Tactics (Video)
I hope everyone had a successful weekend with the Rock Island auction that just ended! For those of you who still have some money left, there is a James D. Julia auction coming up in […]