Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
Taking the concept of the handgun to its most literal extreme, French inventor Jacques Edmond Turbiaux came up with the palm pistol in 1882....
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
Civilian American muzzle loading pistols are much rarer than their British and Continental European counterparts and the U.S. martial pistols, especially in the early...
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
When it comes to fierce battles, rich history, and a wealth of innovative weapons, it’s hard to match the Civil War era. There’s little...
The Holland and Holland of an Earl's Squandered Fortune
Hugh Lowther, the fifth Earl of Lonsdale, squandered a massive fortune through his generosity and out-sized reputation as a womanizer, horseman, hunter, and sportsman.The...
Striker Fired vs Hammer Fired Pistols
“Sooner or later, everything old is new again,” author Stephen King wrote in his 2005 crime thriller, ‘The Colorado Kid.’ This sentiment certainly applies...
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
Theodore Roosevelt considered Henry Cabot Lodge one of his closest friends.A decade into their friendship in 1895, Roosevelt wrote to Lodge, “I can’t help...
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
“In the history of American arms, three weapons stand out above all the rest: the Kentucky rifle, the Colt’s revolver, and the Bowie knife,”...
Aerial World War 1 Artifacts from the Dawn of Dogfighting
The sky above the trenches of France was a new frontier as World War 1 opened in 1914, with each side using lumbering, unarmed...
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
The Colt Walker revolver was the gun that relaunched Samuel Colt’s firearms business following the failure of his earlier Patent Arms Manufacturing Company. The...
Collectible Firearms for Serious Gun Collectors
The Pistolete Pulemyot Degtyaryova 40, or PPD-40, was the bridge to making full auto submachine guns a huge part of the Soviet arsenal on...
