The Cosmi is a very high-end boutique Italian sporting shotgun. It has all the looks and lines of a single shot break-action gun, but hiding inside is a long recoil self-loading action and 8-round magazine tube.

The video I have today is really only half a video - I filmed this footage back i...

The Colt Model 1847 Walker is one of the most valuable of all US military handguns in the collecting community, with examples sometimes breaking seven figures. However, the Walker was in many ways a remarkable failure as a service sidearm, mostly because it tended to explode. By today's standards...

What we today call the Collette Gravity Gun was actually designed by a gunsmith named Jean Nicolas Herman in Liege between 1850 and 1854. He was an employee of Victor Collette (note: spellings vary), and licensed his patent for Collette to produce. The system was first shown at the 1855 Paris Int...

The British Royal Navy tended to accumulate some of the obsolescent patterns of Enfield rifles around the turn of the 19th century, as the Army had higher priority for the new types of rifle. This resulted in a rather odd and poorly-documented pattern, the Charger-Loading Lee Enfield (CLLE) MkI N...

While the Indian Army was looked down upon by much of the British military, it saw much more combat service than its European counterpart. The Indian Army was actually faster than the British to recognize and adopt a number of small arms improvements, and the CLLE MkI India Pattern is a good exam...

The Clair brothers were three men from Saint Etienne, France – Benoit, Jean Baptiste, and Victor Clair. They submitted their first patent in 1889, which described in general a gas-operating system for firearms. This was followed by a British patent (#15,833) in 1893 for their system, which they c...

My friend Rhett Neumayer has been experimenting with an unorthodox but very interesting way to use handguns that don't have reciprocating slides. He fits a red dot optic on a relatively tall mount, then presses the back of the pistol into his cheek while gripping it over the top of the frame with...

With the MR-73 revolvers finally becoming regularly available in the US, I figured it would be really interesting to see how they are made! So, I headed over to Chapuis Armes, where the Directeur Général, Vincent Chapuis, gave me a really nice tour. Want to see? Let's go in...

The Celmi brothers were Italians who moved to Uruguay and opened an arms factory. They are best known for sporting shotguns, but in 1943 they introduced an automatic pistol, much like the Walther PP but with a removable barrel bushing, a la FN 1910. Quality was questionable, and only a few hundre...

Today we have a Q&A guest: Jari Laine, CEO of Varusteleka. Jari is active in the Finnish reserves in addition to his role as CEO, and exemplifies the company's practical expertise in designing and producing topicality military gear as well as sourcing all manner of surplus. Located just north of ...

My previous experience shooting a VHS-2 was limited to a small indoor range, so I’ve been really looking forward to getting this Springfield Hellion out to a proper range. First up, we have a 2-Gun match with it – one with stages specifically written to fit bullpups. So we have lots of maneuverin...

I am honored today to be able to bring you an interview with Christian Prouteau, the founder and original leader of GIGN. This is France's premier elite counter-terrorism force, who have been at the forefront of developing modern special operations techniques and standards. Prouteau led more than...

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:27 - Stocked pistols as submachine gun substitutes?
0:03:20 - Haunted guns?
0:03:58 - Is the NGSW hybrid cartridge case a gimmick?
0:06:23 - My loadout for Desert Brutality 2021 (and Finnish Brutality 2021)
0:08:42 - M60 vs FN MAG
0:11:49 - Why so few 10mm Auto P...

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:28 - What am I using to learn French?
0:01:21 - How difficult is a C&R license?
0:04:06 - Thoughts on FB Radom's return to the US commercial market?
0:06:22 - Do milling and optics on slides impact pistol reliability?
0:08:09 - Maxim-Tokarev
0:09:29 - Suppressing...

Thanks to John Keene for joining me again for today's Q&A! John is both a professional in the business and a passionate machine gun collector himself, and we're here to answer questions specifically about collectible machine guns...

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:12 - What MGs are over/under val...

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:00:21 - My passport, and customs
0:01:54 - What countries would I like to visit?
0:04:46 - How much FR-F2 practice did I have before Desert Brutality?
0:06:07 - Why not half-brass rifle or pistol ammo, like in shotguns?
0:07:46 - Why aren't there more closed bolt SMG...

I recently met up with Ashley Hlebinsky, former curator of the Cody Firearms Museum, and we sat down for a rambling discussion about the intersection of firearms and museums, mostly. Among other things, we will talk about her consulting work with the L.A. Police Museum and the Browning family, th...

I am excited to have the opportunity to talk suppressors today with Kevin Brittingham. He has been working with them for more than 25 years, over that time founded Advanced Armament, sold it to Remington, and then founded his current company, Q. He was responsible for the commercial popularity of...

The saga of how the original Stemple 76/45 became the Stemple Takedown Gun is a fantastic story of engineering design choices.

Essentially, John Stemple began by building a rather crude copy of the Swedish K in .45 ACP in the mid 1980s, called the Stemple 76/45. He produced and registered 2,0...

00:00 - Introduction
00:38 - Limitations of this video
01:22 - 9mm Luger
05:22 - 9mm Largo
07:01 - 9mm Browning Long
10:11 - .380 Auto/9x17mm
12:08 - 9mm Mauser Export
13:38 - 9mm Steyr
15:50 - 9x18mm Ultra/Police
18:08 - 9x18mm Makarov

Why do we have so many different 9mm ca...

One of the really cool aspects of the Cody Firearms Museum is that their collection is built largely on the original Winchester factory collection. Thus they have a significant number of prototype Winchester designs that were built and tested, but never put into production. One of them is this Wi...

The M93 Black Arrow is a .50 caliber anti-materiel rifle developed by Zastava to replace some applications of the RPG with better accuracy. It was originally produced in 12.7x108mm, the same as used in the DShK machine guns then in use by the Serbian military. Later production (including this exa...

Today, I have the opportunity to take a look inside PGM Precision, in Annecy France. Ever been curious about where the Ultima Ratio and Hecate II come from? Let's have a look!

Today we are taking a look at the Springfield Hellion, the semiautomatic US version of HS Produkt's VHS-2 bullpup rifle. The VHS-2 development goes back almost 20 years, with a first VHS rifle and then the revised second model entering production in 2014. These were trialed by the French, and cam...