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The Auto-Ordnance M1 Carbine is the ultimate personal defense weapon beloved by GIs.

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BROTHERS IN ARMS

Ken MacSwan illustration It’s not unusual for Marines to call each other “brother.” But several Leathernecks who served in Afghanistan with the 1st Battalion 23rd Marines (1/23, a USMC Reserve…

Rifle Firepower

Carlos Hathcock II

Hathcock was a leading influence in establishing a USMC sniper cadre in Vietnam. Here two snipers pose with their accurized M14 rifles with early Starlight scopes and Sionics silencers. Because…

John M. Browning

John Browning and Mr. Burton, the Winchester expert on rifles, discussing the finer points of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) at the Winchester plant. John Browning was the most prolific…

Ronnie Barrett

Barrett with Sgt. Nick Ranstad, who used an M107 to earn the U.S. Army record for a long-distance kill—over 1.3 miles away. Founder and President of Barrett Firearms, and designer…

Rifle Firepower

Col. Townsend Whelen

Born to a Philadelphia family of means in 1877, Townsend Whelen was a thoughtful man with a talent for expression that has made him one of our most-quoted gun writers.…

Guns & Weapons for Law Enforcement

ONLY HITS COUNT

Don Reber photo The quality and variety of police weaponry, especially handguns, has evolved exponentially since World War II. New designs, new calibers and new high-performance projectiles have led to…

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SEAL TEAM SIX

Leaving from Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, SEALs jumped from fixed-wing aircraft some distance from the hostage compound and silently glided in under the cover of darkness. Illustration by Ken Macswan…

Rifle Firepower

William B. Ruger

Since its inception in 1949, Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. has grown to become one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of high-quality firearms for the commercial sporting market—offering consumers over…

Rifle Firepower

U.S. SURVIVAL AR-7

Although no longer a “new” design, the .22-caliber AR-7 is still leading-edge modern and fills a compact survival role that no other rifle does. Though Henry rifles were considered “tactical”…

THE BAT-BOMB PROJECT

The Mexican free-tail bat is an unlikely warrior, but the Adams Plan was to release millions of them over Japan carrying twice their weight in incendiaries to start fires. (DoD…

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was born in 1858, in New York City. Home-schooled by parents and tutors, he was very bright and had a photographic memory, allowing him to reach Harvard Law…

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