Historical Guns

With the aircraft about 300 feet off the ground, a .30-caliber bullet pierced the bottom of the fuselage, passed through Rollins’ right thigh, and then lodged in the left side of his face.

The Twilight Zone really did make you think. Like most truly revolutionary artistic endeavors, the show was the product of a singularly creative mind. Rod Serling was a remarkable man indeed.

We modern-day Americans stand on the shoulders of giants. We owe such a profound debt of gratitude to such men as these.

Building, shooting, and enjoying this LRB/Colt M16A1 gun has allowed me to learn and experience a little bit of history.

Child soldiers are a blight in low-rent hotspots around the globe. Kids lack judgment, and all little boys are stupid. That’s why, in most civilized locales, you have to be a certain age to purchase alcohol or a gun. However, the world has no shortage of heartless monsters more than willing to kit out children to go forth and kill on an industrial scale

“Whitey” Bulgar cut quite the dashing figure in his youth, but the kid was a born thug and seemed drawn to the streets at a young age.

On January 8, 2022, Aleksander Tarnawski turned 101 years old. 101 years prior he had entered the world kicking and screaming in Słocin in the Rzeszów poviat in Poland. Like most of the young males of his generation, Aleksander Tarnawski soon found himself swept up in the war.

The Buffalo Bill Center of the West houses five museums, but I was there to check out the Cody Firearms Museum.

The grisly beating of Rodney King ultimately precipitated some of the worst rioting in American history. Early in the morning of March 3, 1991, Rodney Glen King was driving a 1987 Hyundai Excel along the Foothill Freeway in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. He was accompanied by his friends Freddie Helms and Bryant [...]