"The Formidable" was the name given to one of many different civilian pocket-carry revolvers made by the French Manufrance firm in St Etienne. This particular model was introduced in 1895, although...
2023-05-13 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
"Pistols of the Warlords" is in stock and shipping: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/chinese-pistols&n...
2023-05-12 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Get Entered to WIN this legendary PTR44 Sturmgewehr!
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2023-05-10 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Greenland is a remote and desolate land without a significant industrial base, but there is a demand for hunting rifles there. As the place has long been a Danish colony since 1814, its trade was r...
2023-05-08 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry I missed last week - I was on the road photographing for a couple upcoming books.
I did have the chance to watch the recent Finnish movie "Sisu" this weekend, and I highly recomm...
2023-05-07 23:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Previously, I did a Totally Scientific (tm) comparison between Bruce Gray's personal SIG P220 Elite and a flock of six of Hi-Point's new 10mm JXP pistols. Today, I want to see how the two compare i...
2023-05-06 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! I am going to Europe for Lynx Brutality at the end of the month, and will be spending some time in Croatia before the match. On Sunday the 21st, I'll be hosting a meetup at the Vintage In...
2023-05-05 23:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to Otis Technology for sponsoring this video!
When I heard about Hi-Point releasing a...
2023-05-05 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
When I visited Biofire, I was able to spend several hours discussing the history of the gun with its creator, lead designer, and lead engineer. We also completely stripped one of the guns down to i...
2023-05-03 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1970 and 1971, China experimented with a stamped-receiver version of the SKS. About 6,000 of these rifles were made each of the two years, and a number of them have come into the US as commercia...
2023-05-01 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Ohio Ordnance HCAR (Heavy Counter Assault Rifle - a rather fanciful name) is what happens when you take the US military development track of the Browning Automatic Rifle, and bring up to the pr...
2023-04-29 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The SIG 320 was adopted by the US Army as its new M17 full-size service pistol, but that was only have of the Modular Handgun System. The other half was the M18, a compact version of the same pisto...
2023-04-28 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The R-5 was a French-made copy of the Sten produced after the 1944 liberation of France. It was built by Gnome et Rhône, a French company best known for making aircraft engines. The Sten was famil...
2023-04-26 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A few months ago FN America was able to import 400 parts sets from original Belgian Gendarmerie FAL rifles. I got one of them, and had it completed by DSA. They made receivers with Gendarmerie mark...
2023-04-24 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the 1 Shepherd cadre for making Midnight Brutality possible! And thanks to our excellent match sponsors:
Tactical Night Vision Company (TNVC)
B.E. Meyers Advanced Photonics 2023-04-22 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Midnight Brutality match was only feasible because of the assistance of the 1 Shepherd Leadership Institute cadre, and so I want to take a few minutes today to talk about just who they are. It ...
2023-04-21 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Social media is very excited these days about "exploding" SIG 320s...so let's consider what might actually be happening.
Of course, this discussion is invariably clouded by the fact that the ...
2023-04-20 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't have medical gear or training? Code "IAN" gets you 10% off med kits and training classes:
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2023-04-19 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys - we have a small number of blemished books at Headstamp that we are selling at about a 30% discount - early printings of Chassepot to FAMAS, Thorneycroft to SA80, and Pistols of the Warlo...
2023-04-17 19:43:28 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the cool new products we found at SHOT Show this year was the CR9T from Carbon Research. This is a small research company that has figured out how to bond metals to carbon fiber in a way tha...
2023-04-17 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi-Point has chosen to release a new carbine, the Model 3095 - in 7.65mm French Long! Well, not quite...it's actually in .30 Super Carry. But it will run 7.65mm French Long, so I clearly need to ha...
2023-04-16 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the 1 Shepherd cadre for making Midnight Brutality possible! And thanks to our excellent match sponsors:
Tactical Night Vision Company (TNVC)
B.E. Meyers Advanced Photonics 2023-04-15 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
0:00 - Purpose of the Fix
6:03 - The 8.6mm Blackout Cartridge
12:33 - Rifle Features
21:13 - Disassembly
29:35 - My Complaints
31:49 - At...
2023-04-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: The New Jersey law that would ban sale of regular guns once "smart guns" were deemed commercially viable is no longer on the books.
0:00 - Introduction
4:12 - Electronic elements<...
2023-04-13 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we are looking at one of the surplus US Army M17 pistols that SGI put on the commercial market about 3 years ago. These were some of the very first M17s issued to Army units, and they were tu...
2023-04-12 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
My past week was mostly occupied by a trip to visit the new "smart gun" company Biofire. They have a product that is pretty well thought-out and very interesting, but I'm curious to see how people ...
2023-04-10 22:20:43 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1863, the Confederate military decided to design a new standard pattern of cavalry carbine. The designs was put together rather quickly at the Richmond Arsenal; a 25 inch barrel, brass furniture...
2023-04-10 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When the Bundeswehr was formed, it chose to simply continue using the MG42 as its standard GPMG. This was initially done by converting older MG42s to 7.62x51mm NATO as the MG1 (adopted in 1958), bu...
2023-04-07 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Norwegian Kongsberg factory has a history of making firearms-based tools for maritime use, and one of the more recent is the M52 line-throwing gun, introduced in the 1950s and sold through the ...
2023-04-05 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dr. Jackson Crawford and I got the idea for our collaborative April fools videos on Viking firearms and gunpowder almost 8 months ago, when we visited Iceland together on the way to Finnish Brutali...
2023-04-04 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post