Historical Guns

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3-Will-The MAC-10 at Work and Play: The Gory Demise of Barry Seal

The MAC-10 at Work and Play: The Gory Demise of Barry Seal

Back in the 1980’s, the Military Armament Corporation M-10 submachine gun was, well, the MAC-Daddy. The accursed machinegun ban detonated in 1986, and machinegun prices skyrocketed from there.

The Obscure and Awesome – 9 Weird Guns Throughout History

You know the FN Browning 1900 was probably weird when it was premiered with a slide, but now every automatic handgun has a slide.

2 - Will - Rod Serling: The Voyage into the Twilight Zone

Dr Dabbs – Rod Serling: The Voyage into the Twilight Zone

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.

3-Will-Killing Gandhi: The Beretta M1934

Dr. Dabbs – Killing Gandhi: The Beretta M1934

78 at the time of his death, Mahatma Gandhi was admittedly both old and thin. However, three of these underpowered little bullets fired from an assassin’s gun still nonetheless extinguished his mortal light in short order.

3-Will-Bella Twin: The Little Woman and the Really Big Bear

Dr. Dabbs – Bella Twin: The Tiny Little Woman and the Really Big Bear

When confronted with such an enormous predator at such close range, Bella and her buddy wisely chose to disappear into the wood line and hide in hopes that the big animal might just pass them by. 

2 - Will - Rod Serling: The Voyage into the Twilight Zone

Dr. Dabbs – Rod Serling: The Voyage into the Twilight Zone

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.

3-Will-Child Soldiers: The Tale of Johnny Clem

Dr. Dabbs – Child Soldiers: The Tale of Johnny Clem

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

Major Aleksander Tarnawski: The Unkillable Polish Commando

Major Aleksander Tarnawski: The Unkillable Polish Commando

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 Cody Firearms Museum

The Cody Firearms Museum

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

Oberscharführer Franz Staudegger and the Origins of the Tiger Legend

Oberscharführer Franz Staudegger and the Origins of the Tiger Legend

During World War 2 the German Tiger tank earned an outsized reputation among those who faced it.