As part of its commitment to safety, AFGSC is implementing enhanced inspection procedures for the M18 pistol. The command’s bases will include additional inspection criteria for the areas where potential issues were found during the M18 pause.
Imagine being an infantry soldier and being handed a fighting rifle that held three times the ammunition and was three pounds lighter that what you’d been carrying. Plus it had a giggle switch to shoot like a machinegun.
Guns are allowed to be more than tools. They can be works of art, pieces of history, or cultural icons. They can be cool. They can bring joy. It’s that realization that’s changed my views and opinions of gun collecting.
The designer of the SKS rifle, Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, went to work on the design during WWII, but most readers
Fedor Tokarev borrowed heavily from John Moses Browning to design his single action, semi-automatic pistol. Some have called this pistol the “Soviet 1911.”
Why do we make it easy for killers to target our own troops at home? Why do we force soldiers, like those at Fort Stewart, to tackle armed attackers with their bare hands? Let’s stop pretending that gun-free zones protect anyone. They only protect killers.
The small gun club took on the United States Army over range access and won after a lengthy legal fight. This week, several club members returned to the ranges of Fort Devens for the first time in nearly five years.
Despite what Edwin Starr said in the song “War” more than half a century ago, good God y’all, war often does indeed benefit people in ways they seldom realize or understand.
The “pause” on the use of P320-based modular handgun system pistols such as the M17 and M18 will remain in place until the fatal incident is fully investigated.
Continuing on with our series of Cold War Era guns, it is time to talk about the rifle that changed
