Cook Your Catch – Chinese BBQ Dove Skewers – Mourning Dove Recipe

The first big hunt of the year for most people is the mourning dove opener, a hopefully fast-paced and social hunt that ends up being a great time spent with friends and family out on the dove fields. A successful dove hunt also usually means dove poppers for most people. Instead, I have a differ...

By Eugene L.

M10 Booker: Not Your Daddy’s Light Tank

For more than a century, infantry units have fought under an unforgiving reality: When you’re humping a ruck through non-cooperative terrain and you run face-first into an entrenched bunker, fortified machine-gun nest or enemy light armor, your options for immediate heavy fire support are painf...

By Mason Berryman

G3 vs World: Trials of Modern Battle Rifles in Pakistan

When I was a kid, I kept asking my father the same stupid question: ‘Daddy, what is the best gun ever?’ He kept patiently explaining that it depends on the mission and circumstances. I understood that, but deep down, the question always remained with me.

By Vladimir Onokoy

The Thompson Submachine Gun

Few firearms have had as colorful a history as that of the iconic “Tommy Gun.” It was developed for the trenches of the First World War. But, as it arrived too late, the Thompson submachine gun was marketed to civilians, and later was carried by Allied soldiers in World War II. It could be ar...

By Peter Suciu

Cold War-era Law Finds New Use at America’s B-2 Bomber Base

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AFNS) —   Qilin Wu, a Chinese national who returned to Whiteman Air Force Base after being warned not to photograph the installation, was sentenced to six months in federal custody following a case built on a 76-year-old executive order signed by President Harry Truma...

By Eric G

M18 Recoilless Rifle: New Concept in Infantry Firepower

During the morning of March 24, 1945, more than 9,000 men of the US 17th Airborne Division landed behind German lines on the east side of the Rhine. While the Wehrmacht was in deep trouble, many of their units remained effective, and any available Panzers could pose a significant threat to the fr...

By Tom Laemlein

POTD: Glock Clone - The Norinco NP7A

China's state-owned arms giant Norinco has never been shy about reverse-engineering a good idea, and the NP7A is exactly what it looks like: a Glock 17 clone, made in China, sold at Chinese prices (at least kind of).

By Eric B
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