May 4
Want an M1 Garand? The Civilian Marksmanship Program’s mission to promote marksmanship and the national defense includes selling M1 Garand rifle to qualified citizens, including those who participate in marksmanship activity and veterans. Field Editor Martin K.A. Morgan takes you through the CMP’s Alabama facility. DS Arms has turned the classic FN FAL into a folding-stocked, shortened model called the Para Tactical, and it is tested by host Mark Keefe. The Lewis Light Machine Gun was the most successful gun of its type during World War I and was used the British, Belgians and Americans in the trenches of France.

May 11
The Gatling Gun was the first successful manually operated, rapid-fire gun, and we look at Dr. Richard Gatling’s multi-barreled invention, including guns used during the Spanish American war. Cheaper than Dirt offers DRT Ammunition, and Managing Editor Aaron Carter tested this innovative new ammunition that doesn’t expand until it hits soft tissue. During World War II the Germans created and fielded the word’s first “assault rifle,” the Stg44 Sturmgewehr in 7.92 Kurtz.

May 18
The Gatling Gun, weighing as much as piece of 19th century artillery, is clumsy and bulky, but it is a marvel of engineering. This week, we shoot Gatlings and show how they are made today by U.S. Armament Co. SIG Sauer makes the 522 rifle, which looks just like it’s 5.56 NATO big brother the 556, but the affordable 522 is chambered in .22 Long Rifle. The M1911 might be a century old, but Colt came up with the Officer’s ACP in the 1970s, a shorter, lighter, more concealable version of John Moses Browning’s classic design.

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