firearms history
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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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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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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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