Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have an early American take on the double action revolver. This is a prototype Josiah Ells center hammer percussion revolver in 31 caliber, made around 1854 and built to the design in U.S. Patent 11,419, granted to Ells of Pittsburgh on August 1s...
This week I'm joined by Jacob Albaugh and Mike Herne of TENET, the Dayton, Ohio company building direct-thread titanium suppressors, around one question: why should a hunter have to choose between a muzzle brake and a can? Jacob got into the industry by way of a hard-kicking .30-06 and a wel...
Rheinmetall, as a global integrated technology group with specialist air defence capabilities, has partnered with Australian company Praetorian Aeronautics to deliver AERIE; Autonomous-Engagement-Rapid-Interceptor-Effector – a containerised Counter-Uncrewed Aircraft System (C-UAS). The Australi...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Colt target pistol that looks like a revolver but only holds one round. This is a prototype of what became the Colt Camp Perry Model, chambered in 22 LR, and it seems to predate even the official batch of Camp Perry prototypes. The Camp [&...
If you spend five minutes talking to anyone who has served in an Armored Brigade Combat Team, they’ll tell you that the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles usually get all the glory. The public fixates on the 120mm smoothbore cannons and 25mm Bushmaster chainguns punching holes in targets acro...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a prototype Remington Model 7180 trench gun that died because the Army ran out of old bayonets. Remington started working on military shotguns in the early 1960s, and this one dates to roughly 1963 through 1965. It is a Model 1100 with a 20...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have an American submachine gun that looks like a Thompson and thinks like a PPSh. Gerry Fox drew this up in 1974 in Meriden, Connecticut, after a fire ended Meriden Firearms and its M3 Grease Gun knockoff. He built it as the Fox Carbine under T...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a shotgun that was built to be photographed. Syracuse Arms of Syracuse, New York was incorporated in 1893 to build doubles on Frank Hollenbeck’s patents, which got sold on having fewer parts than anything else going. Hollenbeck walked...
Trade show booths don't usually draw a head of state, but the opening day of MSPO 2026 in Kielce, Poland's largest defense industry exhibition, did exactly that. Poland's president stopped by the Radom arms manufacturer's stand to examine a display example of the MSBS GROT3 ri...
Every ounce carried up a mountain gets weighed against what it buys a hunter in the field, especially if you plan on packing out with a good amount of meat. A suppressor is one of the harder pieces of gear to justify when a rifle already carries optics, a bipod, and a full pack. The […] The...