Guns Handguns Semi-Automatic Handguns The Super-Rare Devel Gammon Custom Competition Colt 1911 By Gary Paul Johnston • April 2, 2026 When Charles W. Kelsey quit Formula One racing for Chevrolet in England, he never dreamed that he would reinvent aspects of the Colt 1911 the world had... Read more »
Guns Handguns Revolvers Remember The Medusa? By Gary Paul Johnston • March 26, 2026 In 1985, I received an exotic, modified 6-inch S&W K-38 revolver from the Phillips and Rodgers Company in Texas. What was different about the gun was its special smooth, round cylinder, still in the... Read more »
Featured Guns Handguns History Revolvers Model 1878 — Colt’s 1st Double-Action By Gary Paul Johnston • October 16, 2025 Although Samuel Colt had disdain for the double-action revolver, by 1873, Colt’s Vice President General William B. Franklin was well on his way to... Read more »
Guns Handguns Semi-Automatic Handguns History: The Mauser HSc Recovered After a War Criminal’s Capture By Gary Paul Johnston • May 19, 2023 Born in Speyer, Rheinpfalz, in 1911, Otto Wilhelm Kron was the son of a police official. He was one of... Read more »
Accessories Guns Lasers & Lights Rifles DRD Tactical Aptus: A Quick Takedown AR Ready for 5.56 or 300 BLK By Gary Paul Johnston • June 1, 2021 In Latin, Aptus means such things as fit, suitable, proper and ready, the latter describing it best. It is an... Read more »
Accessories Featured Guns Parts Review Rifles Testing a Custom AR with a Cry Havoc Tactical QRB Kit By Gary Paul Johnston • April 10, 2018 So-called “quick-change” AR barrels have been the all the rage in the gun world for some time. They make sense.... Read more »
Guns Rifles Hands On The DRD Tactical Kivaari in .300 Norma Magnum By Gary Paul Johnston • December 4, 2017 For anyone not familiar, DRD Tactical’s .338 Lapua Magnum Kivaari—which means “rifle” in Finnish—was designed around the company’s AR-based takedown... Read more »
Featured Guns Review Rifles Semi-Automatic Rifles Steyr Aug/A3 NATO 5.56mm (Gun Test) By Gary Paul Johnston • October 15, 2013 Bullpup rifles are nothing new, having been around since World War I when France fielded the earliest conceptual self-loading rifle... Read more »
Featured Guns Review Rifles Semi-Automatic Rifles Tactical & LE DS ARMS RPD By Gary Paul Johnston • March 1, 2013 One of the world’s great unsung light machine guns is the Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova (“Degtyaryov’s handheld machine gun” in Russian),... Read more »
Featured Guns Review Rifles Semi-Automatic Rifles Magpul’s New Massoud 7.62mm By Gary Paul Johnston • February 4, 2010 Imagine a young former US Marine, an end user, who designed a rubber-like gadget to help get a magazine out... Read more »
