The Russo-Japanese War was one of the first major conflicts in which two modern industrial powers employed machine guns extensively against one another. Russian forces primarily used the Maxim machine gun, while the Japanese increasingly used the Hotchkiss machine gun. Both armies initially had r...
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator saw the world through a red heads-up display, keeping count as it went. Now another Austrian creation wants to do something similar, only this one is a 9mm pistol from the small town of Wolfau in Burgenland. This Photo Of The Day takes a closer look at the ...
Six months ago, a compact angled spotting scope called the Zeiss Conquest Apia 65A showed up with a simple pitch: Zeiss optics, low weight and an affordable price. Now the family has grown. VALYRA has announced the Conquest Apia 85A, two straight models and a batch of eyepieces and accessor...
The phrase "riding shotgun" comes from stagecoach messengers who sat beside the driver with a short double-barreled gun, and Derya Arms has built a new shotgun for the same job. The EX1400 Coach is a 12-gauge side-by-side with 18-inch barrels, a compact break-action gun made for fast po...
Red, green or gold: Lodestar Technology has put the choice of reticle color into the LNK9 lineup. The LNK9 now comes in three new optics configurations, with a 2 MOA Green, Red or Gold Dot reticle. The new options give owners more say over the sight picture, while keeping the features, performanc...
Smith & Wesson's $160 million purchase of Savage Arms puts two major long-gun lines under one roof. A practical growth playbook for independent FFL dealers: audit your supplier concentration, lock terms while two reps still compete, and make sure local buyers can actually find you.
The U.S. Small Caliber High Velocity concept started in 1950 with a study, then evolved into testing and evaluation. By the late 1950s, they discussed a .22 caliber rifle with respectable accuracy at 300 yards. The Army Infantry Board brought Armalite’s Eugene Stoner, designer of the AR-10,...
Anyone who grew up with a Nintendo remembers Duck Hunt : lead the target, squeeze the trigger, and pray the dog doesn’t laugh. Denmark is now playing the grown-up version, with enemy targets that buzz instead of quack. In this Photo Of The Day, we take a new look at the Benelli M4 A.I. Dron...
Custom & Collectible Firearms isn’t in the business of making their own firearms—they take other manufacturers’ designs and embellish and otherwise improve them. In this case, they’ve gotten their hands on a Colt Python and given it a makeover.
A suppressed 9mm PCC is one of the most enjoyable things you can shoot. Subsonic from the muzzle, no blast, no ear defenders strictly required, and a rifle you can run flat and fast all day. The catch has always been the operating system. Foxtrot Mike 's ISU-9 upper receiver is an attempt to...