Of the famous firearms engravers of the United States the name Louis Daniel Nimschke stands out. And among the many firearms Nimschke engraved the “Piece de Resistance” is the Colt Single Action Army he engraved for…
The Colt Government Model 380 pistol was one of the gems to emerge from Colt’s factory. It was 78% the size of an M1911 which made it small enough for concealed carry and large enough for…
The Walther Model 8 was the predecessor of the famous Walther PP and PPK and was the last single-action pistol made by Walther other than their target pistols. The Model 8 was made to be simple…
Among the early variants of the Mauser C96 pistol is the version made with a fixed forged-in-frame twenty-round magazine. Only about ninety of this model were made for the South and Central American market. This pistol…
The Lahti pistols were some of the least known and yet most outstanding of the pistols of the Second World War. They look quite like the Luger but operate very differently having been designed for optimum…
Henri Pieper was a firearms inventor who’s creations are not well known. Pieper’s gas-seal revolving carbines and revolvers were only purchased in quantity by the Mexican Government and were favored by the Rurales law enforcement group….
