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Our friend, Ken Bird shares with us this story of an Army pistol match. Used The 1911A1 I represented 7th Special Forces Group in the Southern Command Pistol and Rifle match 1979. I placed 2nd in the Combat Pistol match. 16 teams were on the competition from South American countries. Reason I did not winContinue reading “Ken Bird’s 1979 Pistol & Rifle Match”

From the RIA Blog Born on the dusty streets of African revolution as the Armsel Striker, the shotgun called the Street Sweeper found its way to the U.S. market through some fairly sketchy people involved in espionage, drug dealing, and tax evasion. The Armsel Striker was a 12-gauge, 12-round revolving cylinder shotgun developed by HiltonContinue reading “Armsel Striker/ Street Sweeper”

Pistol_Purview Colt 70 series in .45 ACP by Nolan Santy. Santy was born in New Hampshire and attended college at UNH. He knew from an early age (when he took his ASVAB to meet the selective services requirements) that he wanted to be a gunsmith. Towards the end, he assisted his father Clifford, in his gun smithingContinue reading “Nolan Shanty Series 70 Colt”

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Gary Fadden was a salesman for manufacturer Heckler & Koch. On February 24, 1984, he and his fiancé were driving their Ford pickup along Route 50 in Virginia. This was before cell phones became ubiquitous and he had no communication device inside his vehicle. But he had a competitor’s gun a AC556 “fully automatic” versionContinue reading “The Gary Fadden Incident”