With all the recent interest in takedown long guns like the Ruger 10/22 or the Chiappa Little Badger, it’s important to keep in focus that these rifles are nothing new: The AR7 has been around for over fifty years, looks almost identical to the newest survival rifle offerings and, unsurprisingly, is still going strong. Read more
Long before Gaston Glock stopped building curtain rods and moved on to polymer pistols, the Austrian firm of Steyr was producing eye-popping handgun designs for the turn of the century regular. Case and point, the oddball M1912 pistol. Read more
Americans cut their teeth on shotguns, so it’s no surprise to Guns.com that one legend of WWII became so infatuated with the Guerilla-style combat practiced in the Philippines, that he took their jungle made, slam fire scatterguns home with him. Read more
Ever go to your local gun shop and see a pair of owl eyes staring back at your form the grips? Well, it’s probably an Iver Johnson Safety Automatic, and if you have some spare change, it may be worth your time to ask to look at it. Read more
When the HKP7 was first introduced, the all steel handgun was one of the most unique pistol designs out there: near perfect mechanics with a curious cocking mechanism that doubled as a safety. Accurate, reliable and needlessly complicated, this gun inspired a simmering love-hate relationship in the gun community lasting for almost 40-years. Read more
About a third of all Japanese aircraft shot down during WWII met their demise courtesy of the German designed, Swiss perfected, American built 20mm Oerlikon AAA cannon, but what is perhaps more amazing is that there are still a few floating around in the states, transferable and ready for home defense. Read more
Nowadays, if you say the name Mossberg in gun collector circles, most folks will say, ‘shotguns’. Say it enough, and someone will point out that they also made rifles for many years. But who among ye knew that Mossberg got it’s start bum rushing the concealed carry pistol market? Read more
Russia’s Maxim M1910 machine gun turned peasants into warriors and served the Motherland through two world wars. It’s service life continued in the hands of Soviet allies and it is not uncommon to find this hearty century-old gun still in firing on the battlefields of Afghanistan. Read more
One of Guns.com’s favorite movies, Jurassic Park, is getting the 3D treatment in movie theaters across the country, so we thought we’d take a look at one of our favorite guns from this masterpiece of imagination and storytelling, Franchi’s sinister looking SPAS12. Read more
Who wouldn’t love a five-shot revolver that spews .410 shotgun shells or .45 Long Colt rounds in alternating succession if you so want it? Sounds like a no brainer, in our book. But if you think the Taurus Judge was the first time someone ran with this concept, guess again. The MIL Thunder 5 was out and over with when the Judge was still called the Tracker. Read more
