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Gun Reviews
Mosin-Nagants: where the surplus market stands now
I still remember walking into a pawn shop off Route 9 outside Poughkeepsie back around 2011 and seeing a rack…
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Education
Colt Single Action Army: The Gun That Won the West
There’s a display case at a little museum outside Hartford, Connecticut, that I’ve stood in front of more times than…
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Armed Forces
The M1 Garand: America’s WWII Battle Rifle
There’s a table at a gun show in Ohio I still think about, a beat-up M1 Garand with a Springfield…
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Education
How the AK-47 became the world’s most produced rifle
There’s a photo I keep coming back to, taken sometime in the late 1950s at the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant, rows…
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Gun Reviews
The Winchester lever gun’s real frontier legacy
There’s a Winchester Model 1892 hanging behind the counter at a little pawn shop off old Route 66 outside Kingman,…
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Education
The 1911: A Century of American Steel
Fort Sam Houston, spring of 1907. Somewhere on that dusty testing ground, a board of Army officers was putting handguns…
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