Mighty Italian Mini: Looking Back at the Beretta Model 1934
Beretta is not only the oldest firearms manufacturing company in the world, but it is also the oldest continuously family-run ...
Publication/Issue: Military Surplus
Gun Review: The Cold War-Era Polish P-83 Wanad Pistol
Most students of historical firearms are aware of Fabryka Broni Łucznik (Radom) of Poland, a highly respected armsmaker with a ...
How the Mauser C96 ‘Broomhandle’ Ushered in the Era of Autoloaders
Generally considered the second-oldest successful semi-auto pistol, the iconic Mauser C96 was developed and introduced in the 1890s and signaled ...
Trench Fighter: The M1917 Enfield Served US Troops in WWI, WWII
When the United States entered World War I, in April 1917, our armed forces were woefully unprepared for the conflict. ...
France’s MAS 36 Battle Rifle Fought in WWII and Beyond
France’s main battle rifle of World War II, the 7.5x54mm MAS Modèle 36, often carries the reputation of being “never ...
How the Croatian PHP MV Eventually Led to the Springfield XD
At the beginning of 1990, the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) was the military of the former Socialist Federal Republic of ...
Mapping the Course of Canada’s Inglis Hi-Power Pistols
For my first 20 years of owning handguns, I thought of the Browning Hi-Power as a useful tool. When working ...
Guerrilla Fighter: Examining the Chinese Type 53 Carbine
The Chinese Type 53 Rifle has a unique history. A license-built version of the Soviet M1944 Mosin-Nagant carbine for the ...
Grease Gun: Examining the M3/M3A1 Submachine Gun
Compared to most U.S. infantry weapons of World War II, the M3 submachine gun is not especially well known. This ...
Israeli K98: How the Jewish State Acquired German Rifles After WWII
One of history’s great ironies is that the fledgling state of Israel, predominantly made up of pre-war Zionists and Jewish ...
The Winding, Myth-Filled Story of Japanese Battle Rifles
Years ago, I’d seen Japanese battle rifles at gun shows and in the closet of my good friend Dexter Thunder, ...
Gun Review: A 1944 Smith & Wesson Victory .38 Special Revolver
A descendant of the .38 Hand Ejector Military & Police Model of 1899, Smith & Wesson’s first swing-out-cylinder revolver to ...
Gangster Gun: The Remington Model 11 Shotgun
The 1920s and 1930s represented a seminal period in American history. The nation was clawing its way out of the ...
Gun Review: Testing the New Inland T30 Carbine
Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. This adage is true in the military, especially during wartime. Soldiers ...
Gun Review: The M1D Garand .30-06 Sniper Rifle
World War I was the first conflict in which modern weapons were used in significant numbers by several armies. The ...
Steyr MP34: The Top Dog of German WWII Submachine Guns
Weapons manufacturing is high art in the Information Age. Advances in automation and computer-controlled machinery sees produced in breathtaking quantities ...
Full-Auto Sentry: Looking Back at the German MG34 Machine Gun
In the years before World War II, the Germans developed and produced some impressive war implements. One of these was ...
Gun Review: The Soviet PPSh-41 Submachine Gun
Generally, I don’t think of Russian weapons as being elegant, but for some reason, the PPSh-41 has always struck me ...
6 Rifles Used by the Afrikaners During the Second Boer War
On January 24, 1900, 1,700 British soldiers made a night march and occupied Spion Kop (“Lookout Mountain”) along the Tugela ...
International Harvester’s Post-WWII M1 Garand Rifles
A look back at how International Harvester became a chief supplier of M1 Garand rifles after the end of the ...