POTD: The SWD M11/Nine – The Everyman’s Machine Gun, in a Briefcase

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a true piece of Cold War Americana, packaged for a spy movie. This is an SWD M11/Nine, a 9mm submachine gun, and it comes tucked into a working “briefcase gun” rig. The lineage runs back to Gordon Ingram and the famous MAC-10 of ...

By Sam.S

POTD: Tikka T1x with ASE Utra Suppressor

There's something special about a properly configured rimfire that reminds you why precision shooting is genuinely fun. The Tikka T1x brings serious Finnish engineering to the rimfire game, sharing the same bedding surfaces and ergonomics as its centerfire T3x big brother.

By Eric B

POTD: The S&W Model 16-4 – A Magnum for the Overlooked .32

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have the forgotten sibling of a famous family, reborn for a cartridge almost nobody asked for. This is the Smith & Wesson Model 16-4, chambered in .32 H&R Magnum. Back up a step. S&W’s classic K-frame target trio was the K-22 (M...

By Sam.S

POTD: Magnum Research Embraces Gold Rush with Limited Ember Reaper

There's no mistaking a Desert Eagle, but Custom & Collectable Firearms has made sure this one commands even more attention. The new Ember Reaper drops as a limited run of just 300 consecutively numbered units into the collector market, each wearing a polished rose-gold camo plating that ...

By Eric B

POTD: The S&W Model 422 – Smith’s Run at the Plinker Crown

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have Smith & Wesson trying to crash a party Ruger had been hosting for years. This is the Model 422, S&W’s budget .22 plinker, and these two are first-year guns from 1987. By the mid-1980s the affordable rimfire pistol market belong...

By Sam.S

POTD: Ruger PC Carbine with Custom Wood Stock and Aimpoint Micro H-2

There's something distinctly appealing about pairing a modern red dot sight with traditional wood furniture. This Ruger PC Carbine build showcases that balance beautifully, trading the polymer look of a typical 9mm pistol-caliber carbine for a custom walnut stock that gives the rifle a more ...

By Eric B

POTD: Ruger PC4 – Carbine Everyone Forgot Ruger Already Made

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a gun that got famous twenty years after it died. This is the Ruger PC4, and if it looks familiar, that’s because Ruger’s wildly popular takedown PC Carbine of recent years is the second act. Almost nobody remembers there was a f...

By Sam.S

POTD: Norwegian Crew Qualifies With Glock P80 & HK 416N in Barents Sea

Photo Of The Day: Norwegian Coast Guard personnel aboard the icebreaker KV Svalbard executed a small arms training exercise (GUNEX) in the Barents Sea in mid-June, qualifying with both the Glock 17 P80 sidearm and the HK416N rifles in the harsh Arctic environment. The photographs capture crew mem...

By Eric B

POTD: The Springfield Trapdoor Carbine – Custer’s Cavalry Gun

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a carbine that rode into the most studied battle in American history. This is a Springfield Model 1873 Trapdoor carbine in .45-70, and this one falls in the serial range issued to the 7th Cavalry. In other words, it’s the type of gun G...

By Sam.S

POTD: Glock's Limited French Contract Run

In 2020, the French Armed Forces selected the Glock 17 Gen5 as their new standard service pistol, naming it PANG for Pistolet Automatique de Nouvelle Génération. Over the next two years, Glock delivered 74,596 examples in coyote-colored polymer frames and black slides, each marked w...

By Eric B
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