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J. Michael Plaxco Custom Single Stack Comp Gun — Two Tone 1911 — 38 Super

A straight classic single stack Comp-gun built by champion Mike Plaxco.

John F Kennedy’s undelivered gold plated M-16 (1963)

In 1963 Colt made a gold plated XM16E1 rifle, the 50,000th produced (Serial number SN# 050000) as a gift intended for US President John F Kennedy. However, Colt was not able to present the gun to JFK due to his untimely assassination in November of that same year. The gun would instead be donated toContinue reading “John F Kennedy’s undelivered gold plated M-16 (1963)”

32-20 S&W Revolvers; A Quick Look At S&W’s In This 1882 Cartridge, Wonder Sight & Super King Target

Today we have a great grouping of Smith & Wesson Revolvers in 32-20, from early guns to the last months production as a King Super Target, with the most honest example possible and the working mans target upgrade.

DW King – King Gun Sight – 1939 Colt New Service Custom Super Target 38 Special

Dean King’s King Gun Sight Company of San Francisco ruled the Custom sight and pistolsmithing world for several decades. Beyond making Fine aftermarket sights for Winchester, Remington, Colt and Smith & Wesson guns, his firm customized handguns in new ways. From the floating vent rib, the Micrometer rear sight and reflector front, and can’t forgetContinue reading “DW King – King Gun Sight – 1939 Colt New Service Custom Super Target 38 Special”

Mexican Cartel Violence (Graphic Warning)

Over the weekend there was a huge dust-up south of the border. Lot of cartel activity and fighting. I pulled some video off of telegram and took some screenshots of the aftermath of the police firing up a SUV full of narcos. Pictures of what 5.56 will do to a man’s head below. Pictures willContinue reading “Mexican Cartel Violence (Graphic Warning)”

Colt AR15 and M16 Serial Numbers, 1960-1972

By Kevin O’Brien This memo’s been around as a scanned, non-OCR’d .pdf for a long time. We’ve OCR’d the PDF, and double-checked the numbers against the original data. The PDF is here:M16 Serial Number List OCR[.pdf]. The complete text is below this editorial comment. We would add the following remarks: We hope this document isContinue reading “Colt AR15 and M16 Serial Numbers, 1960-1972”

The Guns of Uncle Al Freeland

After talking with Brady the other night , we got talking about one of the guns he owns, an Al Freeland BSA Martini. This gun isn’t just one sold by Freeland to Brady, it was one of Al’s personal guns. To make a long story short, Brady had sent in 1000 dollars to buy oneContinue reading “The Guns of Uncle Al Freeland”

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