This Week in Firearms History:March 12: American Civil War, in 1864 The Red River Campaign begins; in 1874 gun maker Christian Sharps dies; in 1999 former Warsaw Pact members Poland, Czech R… Read More

While it would seem obvious that concealed carry is a component of the right to bear arms, it has not always been the case that the American legal system nor legislative bodies viewed it tha… Read More

The story of  the J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company starts in 1850 when three men entered into partnership and called it The Massachusetts Arms Company. The three men would later write t… Read More

Sharpshooting Rifles of the American Civil War: Colt, Sharps, Spencer, and Whitworth By Martin Pegler Illustrated by Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland Publication Date: 24 Aug 2017 80 pages ISB… Read More

Let's get this party started with an x-ray of an FN PS90Sharps Brothers...go home you're drunk...Sal brings up a good question, you know with the Democrats' stance on voting and allIs that R… Read More

Given the recent political developments, I should not even be mentioning the name of the town in which the retarded slave enthusiasts live (my new term for socialists) and construct their pr… Read More

The English language is made up of words from every corner of the globe. There are several reasons for this. Starting with many invasions of Britannia by the Norsemen, the Romans and of cour… Read More

To understand how American citizens today can get their hands on ammo, which rolls off the same factory lines as those that supply the world’s largest militaries, it’s important… Read More

The story of Auto-Ordnance and the factories in which they were built has to start with the man who started it all: John Taliaferro Thompson.John Taliaferro Thompson had a huge impact on Ame… Read More

This post is along the same vein as two previous posts, If These Guns Could Talk and History's Most Notorious Guns.I felt there existed a gap, what about the guns that we know of their contr… Read More

This is the tale of a little known shotgun, produced by some important gun makers.The story of the Roper Repeating Rifle Company and its successor Roper Sporting Arms Company starts with thr… Read More

This is just another story of a unique gun I have run across, here is one picture (there are more below).To tell the story of this Spanish made, Smith & Wesson cloned, revolver, we need… Read More