Obscure Object of Desire: Hoban No. 45 Boy’s Rifle
In my home, there are certain non-negotiables with my kids when it comes to things they have to learn. I see raising kids as something akin to predeployment training. It lasts 18 years, and...
Famous Gun Nicknames – How Many of These Did You Know?
By Joe Engesser
Sometimes a gun's nickname is a term of endearment. Other times they stem from fear or detraction. Slang gun names can be derived from a weapon’s appearance, its sound when it fires,...
There and Back Again – A Huey Crew Chief Gets His Vietnam War Browning...
By James "Bud" Harton
Years ago, eons actually, I was a crew chief/door gunner on a UH-1D Iroquois helicopter in Vietnam. I was assigned to an assault company and our unit was comprised of 24...
Bully! Teddy Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson No.3 Revolver Sold at Auction for Over $910,000
From Rock Island Auction . . .
Former President Theodore Roosevelt’s Smith & Wesson New Model No. 3 Single Action Revolver sold for $910,625 during the first day of Rock Island Auction Company’s (RIAC) December...
Obscure Object of Desire: Colt Fourth Model Rimfire Derringer
I think a lot of us appreciate rimfire variants of our favorite guns. The HK MP5, the Walther PPQ, the SIG P322, and the GLOCK 44, among others, give us a cheaper way to...
Obscure Object of Desire: Rohm RG10 Rimfire Revolver
The anti-gun crowd loves to make up terms to justify their chronic hoplophobia. While that bunch frequently falls in the low IQ quartile, they're pretty good at branding.
They created terms like "assault weapons" and...
The Quest to Build a Better Bullet
Just as we continue to try to perfect projectiles in the 21st century, the same was true back in the 19th century.
Buck-and-ball fired from a shotgun allowed the shooter to have multiple projectiles per...
A Life With Guns: Growing Up in India
By Opsimath
It was an expletive-laden phone call that threatened to kill the young columnist. "You're going to die because you wrote xxxxxx about yyyyyyy." The young man laughed, and told the caller, "You're not...
Obscure Object of Desire: Sterling 302 .22LR Pistol
How did I find a Sterling 302? Well, it's a long story. I've become a pretty big fan of auctions. Not Gunbroker-style auctions, but real auctions that move in real time.
I have a local...
Kates and Levinson: A Post-Bruen Look at the Roots of Modern Second Amendment Scholarship
By LKB
Like many of you, I am still processing the depth of the legal earthquakes from the Supreme Court late last month. With the 6 to 3 opinion in Bruen now the law of...
The 5 Worst Production Firearms Ever Made
Reader A. E. Johnson writes:
Ever since the dawn of mankind we've been trying to kill one another. But it was only with the advent of gunpowder that we got really good at it.
Firearms have existed...
Obscure Object of Desire: My Custom ‘Apache Pug’ Knuckleduster Revolver
Reader Rudukai13 writes . . .
I recently received a completed custom design I commissioned from Wright Armory in Tempe, Arizona. It's inspired by the Apache Revolvers of the mid 19th century. An array of...