“Tag: Seecamp”

This week, American Rifleman TV gets an inside look at Springfield Armory. "Rifleman Review" looks at the Springfield 911 Pistol; "I Have This Old Gun" is the Seecamp Pistol.

Has the time of small-caliber pocket pistols passed or do they still have a place in today's defensive collections?

Pocket pistols are the most in-demand category of firearm today. It’s been a long road from the pocket Brownings at the dawn of the 20th century to the Glock 43 and Ruger LCP II of today, and it is a journey that has been heavily influenced by laws both for and against the self-loading pocket pistol.

A few months back, I walked into a gun store in California that I frequented in the early 1970s. It hasn’t changed very much—same large log building with no change in floor space or show cases.

Louis Seecamp was an ingenious gun designer from a family of gunmakers. Over the years, he worked on a lot of gun matters, but settled into double-action conversions for .45s in the days when there were no such things available on the open market.