“Tag: historical”

The Boys rifle saw service with U.S. Marine Raiders during the Makin Island Raid of Aug. 17 and 18, 1942. “Carlson’s Raiders” used their Boys rifles to dispatch two Japanese float planes. It was likely an unenviable task to lug the massive bolt-action through the jungle.

Now in its 43rd year, the Blue Book Of Gun Values has been updated and expanded with a number of new manufacturers and models.

Germany’s World War II era Fallschirmjägergewehr 42 solved the full-power, machine-rifle puzzle. The Smith Manufacturing Group made replica allows us to explore this fascinating rifle in a semi-auto version.

Compared to most marksmanship competitions today, those held in Springtown, Penn., every year are for more unusual and dated firearms. Follow Kenneth L. Smith-Christmas as he recounts the experience of a "Victorian Riflemen" match.

While the longrifle gets most of the attention, the muskets used by militia and the Continental Line were the workhorses of the American Revolution.

While eclipsed by the far-better-known Winchester Model 97 and Model 12 “trench” and “riot” shotguns, the Ithaca Model 37 served from World War II all the way through Vietnam.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced $3 million in grants designed to expand and protect a number of American battlefields.

Seventy-five years ago, beginning on May 10, 1940, German forces struck against Western Europe, invading Holland, Belgium and France.

Predictably, the New Zealand Gun Buyback program championed by the country's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, took a turn for the worse, as several episodes attest.