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The brief handed to design director Phil Strader was single-stack width with double-stack capacity and no compromise on either. The answer was an offset...
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The brief handed to design director Phil Strader was single-stack width with double-stack capacity and no compromise on either. The answer was an offset...
The original Model 40 arrived for the company's 100th anniversary, and the aluminum-framed Model 42 Airweight followed the same year. Both died in 1974....
The whole Mauser 98 rifle is 44 parts, and only 29 of them are in the action — fewer moving pieces than the British...
Most rifle actions need tight-fitting parts to cycle cleanly. The AK-47s bolt carrier rattles around inside the receiver with room to spare, and that...
The P228 had a stamped steel slide. The P229 got a CNC-milled stainless one, because .357 SIG and .40 S&W drive a slide harder...
Ruger 10/22: Semi-automatic rimfires had a feeding problem before this rifle. The .22 Long Rifle has a rim that catches on the round behind...
Smith & Wesson has been building this idea since 1952 — a fully enclosed hammer with nothing to snag on a pocket, a waistband...
S&W introduced it as the .38 Hand Ejector Model and everyone called it the Military & Police. The Model 10 designation did not arrive...
Colt did not try to out-argue the Model 29 for the title Dirty Harry gave it in 1971. It built a revolver that could...
Bill Ruger introduced the Blackhawk in 1955 as a .357 Magnum at $87.50. When Smith & Wesson and Remington produced the .44 Magnum a...