Preview: High Standard Firearms History | A Collector’s Guide

For 2025, Taurus re-introduced its "hammerless" revolver design with the 650, which provides double-action-only operation and a shrouded hammer for a seamless, snag-free profile.

The Uzi submachine gun is one of the most iconic and recognizable firearms of the 20th century. As a highly successful design with more than 10 million produced to date, it has spawned numerous copies, licensed and otherwise, and has been manufactured everywhere from Belgium to southeast Asia.

Henry Repeating Arms recently donated another $25,000 to the First Responders Children’s Foundation at a celebratory National First Responders Day event in New York City’s Times Square.

While the Colt Single Action Army (SAA), which celebrated its 150th birthday in 2023, is still being made by the company that first brought it into existence, the popularity of the design and its connection with martial and frontier history has created a vibrant market for derivatives, many of which are produced in Italy.

Read today's "The Armed Citizen" entry for real stories of law-abiding citizens, past and present, who used their firearms to save lives.