All too often I stumble across the most interesting firearms in this building, and this week it is a Treeby 14-round capacity shotgun patented by Thomas Treeby in 1855. That's well over 100 years before Kel-Tec's KSG or the SRM Arms 1216, and according to National Firearms Museum curator Doug Wicklund, this piece is one of possibly 2 in existence.
I snapped a few shots with my iPhone so you, too, can marvel.
During the Vietnam War, many SKS carbines were recorded as being “Russian” in origin, but recent research by archivists and collectors has proven that licensed copies of the SKS from other countries were also brought into North Vietnam.
Read today's "The Armed Citizen" entry for real stories of law-abiding citizens, past and present, who used their firearms to save lives.
The history of what was later to become the Meriden Fire Arms Co. is actually the story of Andrew Fyrberg & Co. of Worcester, Mass. The association of this firm with Sears, Roebuck & Co. formed the basis of what became a giant in the American sporting firearms industry.
From the firearm toolmaker Real Avid comes a sharp new subset within the company portfolio, the Rav series of liner-lock knives.
Chambered for the easy-to-shoot .380 ACP cartridge, Walther's compact PD380 comes as a redesigned PK380 of which has been optimized for performance and duty use.
The baton-shaped Bat Light 1500 from Nebo is a tactical flashlight that, in a pinch, can serve as a self-defense tool in and of itself.
