The Colt Monitor – BAR Evolved If you have not seen The Highwaymen on Netflix, check it out. It is a Historically accurate account of Bonnie and Clyde and the men who hunted them down. It is also a gun nut’s movie through and through. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Category: History of Weapons
M-5 Stuart, Satan Flamethrower Tank
WW2 History: The British Cromwell Tank
One of the sleekest British cruiser tank designs of WW2 that saw action primarily with the “Bloody 7th”, (British Seventh Armored Division) during Operation Market Garden in September 1944 in Holland. Warfare History Network Weapons and Warfare Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Learning From History: What the Versailles Treaty Teaches Us About Gun Control
What The Versailles Treaty Teaches Us About Gun Control There are so many good lessons history can teach us if we would only stop and heed them! The summary paragraph bears repeating: “In other words, vindictiveness and enforced disarmament failed. It failed because demonizing an entire group of people when the responsibility is much more…
Addressing and Breaking the AK Stigma
ADDRESSING AND BREAKING THE “AK STIGMA” I feel very humbled that the good folks over at American Partisan magazine chose to reprint an article I wrote way back in 2015. My sincerest Thanks go out to NC Scout and Kit Perez for all their hard work. Please take some time and go over and…
Weapons and Ammo: The History of the AK Magazine
A Brief History of the Kalashnikov Magazine Part 1: Metal Magazines (click on above link to be re-directed) A Brief History of the Kalashnikov Magazine Part 2: Synthetic Magazines (click on above link to be re-directed) For all you fellow AK aficionados out there, this is an excellent little primer on Magazines. It goes without saying…
Know Your Weapons: The CIA Probably Still Uses Some of the High Standard Spy Pistols It Bought During World War II
A suppressed .22-caliber “Wetwork” weapon that never needed replacing When the United States entered World War II, the Pentagon quickly bought up all the stocks it could find of .22LR target pistols — a .22-caliber handgun that fires a rifle-style cartridge—for training purposes. But the British Special Operations Executive was already using suppressed versions of similar weapons in combat….
Know Your Weapons: The Spetsnaz AS VAL Assault Rifle & VSS Sniper Rifle
Russian Commandos Carry Suppressed Rifles That Can Shoot Through Body Armor The AS Val and VSS are fearsome weapons In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union’s Central Institute for Precision Machine Building — TsNIITochMash — developed the AS Val suppressed assault rifle and the derivative VSS sniper rifle specifically to outfit Russian special forces and intelligence agencies….
Ancient History: 10 Recent Discoveries
Not very long ago, the common consensus was that “civilization” developed slowly in Europe. Outside of the Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Italy, ancient Europe was a backwater full of barbaric tribesmen who mostly lived in hut-like dwellings. Most laymen and many historians would say that compared to Sumer, Babylon, China, Egypt, and the Indus…
Obscure Weapons: The Standschultze-Hellreigel Submachine Gun
The Austro-Hungarian Standschutze Hellriegel debuted in 1915. Today the automatic, light firearm is something of a mystery. The prototype blended pistol-caliber ammunition with the firepower of a machine gun, making it one of the first weapons which could be considered a “submachine gun.” That much, we know. The rest is … conjecture. The images in this…