Cody Firearms Museum: 1918 Colt Model 1911Cutaway
TTAG is delighted to welcome Ashley Hlebinsky, the Robert W. Woodruff Curator at the Cody Firearms Museum. Ms. Hlebinsky will be giving TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia insight into the museum's extensive collection of historical firearms.
A Winchester 1911 semi-automatic pistol?...
CBS Goes All-In For Gun Control. Again. Still.
"Of all the artifacts that were aboard the good ship Mayflower, not a single gun is known to have survived," CBS News "reports." in their article/TV package. "But historians believe they were probably there,...
Are You European and Want a Gun? Be Swiss!
The Swiss have always had a lot of guns and significant freedom. As Machiavelli noted in "The Prince" in 1517:
“Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which...
DeSantis Gunhide Question of the Day: What’s the Smallest Gun You Own?
https://youtu.be/UqNlMwvsBOo
No matter how you spell it, a Derringer is a useful little thing. It's a deep concealment firearm that's a whole lot better than a sharp stick, should push come to shove come to...
Antique Handguns and Canada; the Choices Have Narrowed
It wasn't that long ago that taking firearms into or out of Canada was fairly easy. I recall that long guns were no problem, and even handguns only required a simple seal showing that...
Kansas Gun Show Vendors Outnumber Protestors 20 to 1
A gun show in Wichita, Kansas showed the disparity between Second Amendment supporters to those who seek a disarmed population. On Saturday the 16th of July, five protesters showed-up. The ratio of vendors to protesters was...
Why Do So Many People Want to Own Guns?
Those who demand a disarmed population claim that it's the easy availability of guns that causes people to do bad things with them. The core assumption is that guns have no useful, socially redeemable function....
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Making Percussion Caps and Primers But Were...
Guns aren't hard to make. Third world workshops and first world hobbyists routinely manufacture firearms using both common and exotic materials, by methods as varied as simple hammering all the way up to 3D printing. Many...
Fraction of Suicides with Guns vs Per Capita Guns in the U.S. 1981 to...
Over the last 60 years, the number of guns in private hands in the United States has risen sharply. At the same time, during the last two decades, the number of murders and non-negligent homicides...
Erle Stanley Gardner’s Colt SAA: Blast from the Past
https://youtu.be/AsmVIlFOIzE
I'm not sure who cares that author Erle Stanley Gardner owned the Colt Single Action Army pistol featured in the NRA video above. That's not what I call provenance. Gardner's Perry Mason -- fictional...
The Deer Gun: A New Liberator for a New War
Most historians and gun guys are familiar with the Liberator pistol from World War II. Crudely produced at the General Motors Guide Lamp Division in Indiana, the Liberator was a single-shot .45 caliber pistol...
Portuguese Homemade Revolver Uses Homemade Cartridges
This image from homemadeguns.wordpress.com appears to be from a Portuguese police agency. Shotgun shells are often used for the clandestine manufacture of pistol ammunition. In many countries it's much easier to obtain shotgun shells...