In this article, Greg Frebourg reviews the Springfield Ronin EMP 9mm pistol. The handgun was loaned to the author by the company for this article. If it quacks like a duck, floats, walks and looks like a duck, well, it is a duck. That common sense saying might be full of wisdom, but it falls Read...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1911-manufactured Colt Model 1909 double action revolver marked “UNITED STATES PROPERTY” on the barrel underside with RAC inspection marks on the barrel, frame, cylinder, and left grip. The 1909 was the Army’s standard side...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Sheridan Knockabout single shot pistol manufactured 1953 to 1960, chambered in .22 S/L/LR. Sheridan is mostly remembered for air guns and that’s fair, but they made this thing too. The Knockabout was about as simple as a pistol gets. S...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt Official Police revolver marked “TWC 327” on the butt, issued to the Tennessee Women’s Correctional Institution. Correctional facilities ran numbered weapons inventories for exactly the reason you’d expect. Every...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Williamson Patent Derringer manufactured 1866 to 1870, chambered in .41 rimfire, and including a percussion adapter for converting between cartridge and cap operation. The 1860s were a transitional period where percussion and metallic cartri...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a cased consecutively serialized pair of Colt 1849 Wells Fargo Pocket revolvers, serial numbers 99999 and 100000, likely produced December 31, 1854 and January 1, 1855 respectively. That detail alone is enough. Two guns, one number apart, stra...
Have you ever had a handgun that you immediately loved the way it shoots, feels and carries? That is, beyond question, how I feel about the Springfield Armory Hellcat Pro 9mm. In my many years with it, the Hellcat Pro has proven to be reliable and accurate — truly a premier carry pistol. W...
At its launch in 2025, the Springfield Armory Kuna quickly established itself as a premier PDW-style 9mm pistol. This was due not just to its well-considered feature set and ergonomics, but also to its performance — driven in no small part by its roller-delayed operating system. This ...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1913-frame Colt Model 1911 in the USMC serial range, documented as owned by U.S. Army Major General Edwin Forrest Harding. He gifted it to a family friend named Robert James when James came home to Franklin, Ohio after the Korean War. Hardin...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a James D. West manufactured “Grease Gun” submachine gun, built post-WWII and registered during the 1968 amnesty. Homemade emulation of the GM Guide Lamp M3 and M3A1, alloy tube and sheet construction, with some original M3 compone...