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CZ Brings 75 Legend & 457 Target to SHOT, Talks German Army P13

Meanwhile, in Greenland…

Living up to her potential

USCG Out There Getting it Done Around the Globe with Ancient Hulls

Sea Legs

C-series BHP, is that you?

Whimbrel, is that you?

Keeping those moto murals a thing underway

AK 556 Pistol Joy: Review of the Zastava ZPAP M85

Greyhound Sardines

Always Ready to Ditch this Ride

Springfield Armory Goes 19X, But Better

Warship Wednesday 21 January 2026: Interdiction Trendsetter

Building 9, at rest

Is Kimber the go-to for 1911s these days?

Heavy Hitter at rest

Big Navy Anniversaries This Year

Flight to Baghdad

The Light Fighters of the 1980s

The SCAR is back in town

Snail Mail

Superman to the rescue!

New: FN 309 Optics-ready Hammer-fired 9mm Pistol

MK 75 OTO Echoes

Warship Wednesday 14 January 2026: ‘A Complete Shambles’

First ROK SSK retired at 34

That’s a huge (flying) boat

YHM at 75

Japanese Type 5: Ode to the Garand

Spiffing up the last DD in the fleet

The Nickel Boys

Echoes of Issac Bell

Rock of Chickamauga, Yoju edition

And the real color of the Royal Navy’s Wildcats in WWII was…

Marines are getting FPV drone serious

Shooting Illustrated Prints Final Issue, Ends 25 Year Run

Tomcat over Kresta

Warship Wednesday, 7 January 2026: Wilbur’s Beachcombing

CMP Production Inventory status on M1903, M-1 Garand, and M1911s

Woody’s rivet: Birth of the Mighty ‘Mo

Lucid’s Labor of Love

Big Army to keep (some) Horse Units Afterall

First Look at the New 2K11 Comp Double-stack 1911 9mm

Silent Protectors

Sisters from another mister

The Carter Special, Spotted in the Wild

The ‘For’ in IFOR

Happy 2026! (65 year Deck log throwback)

Warship Wednesday 31 December 2025: What a wee bit of Whale Oil Tax gets you

Sea Dragon and Black Dragon

Au revoir, BB!

Climb to Glory: Air Scouts out, UAS Company(s) Real In

Penny Wise and Pound Foolish, 688 edition

Getting Some Sun with the Boys

M948 Bayonet Alert!

Just Cause Sheridans

CZ wins big German military pistol contract

Myrtle Lighting the Way: 5,380 nautical miles on a 154-footer

‘She’s All Ablaze’

Father Christmas’s Cold War Lighthouse Run

Christmas 1944 ‘Somewhere in England’

Ringing in the Holidays with the Navy Band

Make Battleships Great Again (?)

Le Tonnant Found

Mighty Mo Sounding off

The FF(X): The Navy’s New (USCG’s Old) Small Surface Combatant

Double Deuce: Keeping the Watch

POF-USA Awarded Contract for ‘Next Generation Rifle System’ for Unnamed Customer in Asia

Fletcher snowballs

Fury, Devil Dog edition

Panama flashback

The Recycled Spoils of War, Dutch East Indies edition

Defense Bill Includes Selling Milsurp Shotguns Through CMP

Tusky at peace, yet girded for war

A family reunion in the Indian Ocean

Warship Wednesday 17 December 2025: They Give a Good Account of Themselves

Third Battlewagon SSN this Year

Those Lost to the Gun Community in 2025

Shaping up the ‘Fish

Olive Drab Bofors (by the Tens of Thousands)

HK416A8 in Der Haus: German Army Issues First Heckler & Koch G95 Rifles

The Icelandic Coast Guard sees you, and they want you to know they see you

The Frigate Gap meets the Cutter Gap

Ike Angle

The Batmen

Lucky Fluckey Would be Proud

The Many faces of the Triple Three

Mossberg Lands $11 Million Army Contract for M590A1 Shotguns

Warship Wednesday 10 December 2025: Dutch Avenger

Swiss go SIG, duh

The Candy Clipper

Last QF-16 Wings off as Danish Vipers Buzz Buenos Aires

A Deep Dive on the New Glock Gen 6 Models (G17, G19, and G45)

Navy makes the shift back to LSTs, err LSMs, official

Black Devils at 360

85 years ago: Carnarvon Castle v Thor

So long, Armidales

Registration Open for the 2026 U.S. Army Small Arms Championships!

Gurkhas taking care of their own

The forgotten Hagaru-ri airlift

CVN-68 final call to Battleship Row

Shootin’s Good in the Schoutens!

You can almost see Santa’s house from here

The PCC in your Waistband

From small beginnings…

The Cold Desperate Fire of the Sapper Steel Battalion

Final LCS delivered as Frigate Program tanks

The old New York Reload

Cel Shaded Cerakote Celebration: Beretta APX A1 Full Size Tactical

Nord Poilus

German big cat show

Chosin Thanksgiving

Warship Wednesday 26 November 2025: A Sad Affray

Amphibious Bottom Lines and Expeditionary Wishes

The Hard fighting 13th

High Feature Plinker: Review of the Ruger Mark IV 22/45 with Threaded Bull Barrel

Waking up the Dragon

Der Moon Fuhrer ist Tot

Big Mamie, returns

Bat ‘Truders

The Fake Chinese Secret Iranian Type 56

73rd Burke accepted

Eastern Shipbuilding Stops Work on all Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutters

At least Bond got his: Walther Ends Production on PPK, PPKs, and PP Pistols

The dusty cardboard box of Kaiser Karl

Warship Wednesday 19 November 2025: Pride of the Scouting Group

The fingers of doom, ala Lightning

Destroyer Escort vs German torpedo, 2025 edition

CMP has lots of surplus training 22s

Van Galen of Shanghai Fame

Sun Shines on the Commissioning of the final Indy LCS

There are Many Like It: Marine History in 18 Rifles

The deceptively massive Type 97 anti-tank rifle

Bundeswehr at 70

More Semper, More Paratis

Warship Wednesday 12 November 2025: Bank on it

Standing watch

109 years on: bottle mail set for delivery

Guadalcanal Arms List

A Clear Choice: The Shield OMSsc Micro Red Dot

One busy Brit tanker

Legends at rest

Why looky there…

Minehunting in style

Illuminating

The pipedream joy of the S&W M76

Warship Wednesday 5 November 2025: Celebrate the Ram!

Marine Experimental Recon, Narco Boats Break Cover during UNITAS

100km a day Across the Desert and all the Rivets you can eat

Big Iron! A Review of the Taurus Deputy Single Action Revolver in 45 Colt

50 Years in the Rearview: Harrier deployment

The best preserved Fletcher heads back to the water

Glenfield is Back: Meet the new Glenfield Model A Bolt-Action Rifle

New: Beretta 92SB 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Pistol

The forgotten Skysoldiers who fought the Fu-Go

Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) 30 October 2025: End of the Line

Happy Navy Day! A Great Get Together

Making Progress on the 84th Burke

Reviewing the best Budget Staccato Clones

Beretta gives the Guadalcanal Raiders a Salute in Frogskin

Just six months later…

Coast Guard Mobile Afloat Bases, a historical perspective

It seems the best way to kill a UAV is…with a UAV

Cold War Classic HK G3 Resurfaces in German Use

Kongos a Cruising

Clocking in Jointly on a multi-mission Alaska Arctic patrol

Korean War Ranger Resurgence

Warship Wednesday 22 October 2025: Good in a Pinch

Ruger Mini-14 SBR Aesthetic

Bluejacket Cavalry!

Glock Upheaval: Rumors Fly on Discontinued Models, New V Series Guns

Rakkasans hit the silk!

Quite a collection

Ruger Just Dropped the first 10mm Lever Gun

Alas, We Could Hardly Afford Thee: FN Ends the SCAR Line, Kinda

The mighty Willis

12 Gauge on Watch

Beretta Just Bought 9 Percent of Ruger’s Stock, Prompting a Response

Pour 12 out for the ever-maligned yet everlasting Kingstons

Warship Wednesday, October 15, 2025: One Tough Cat

Alas, Simpson, you deserved better

Springfield Armory Hellcat, now in 380

Leopards in the Mist

Columbus Meta

Romulus and Remus: Coming to a SAG near you?

Happy 250th, Navy

A Great Idea, Perhaps Horribly Implemented

New: Staccato Compact HD C3.6 Pistol (And it’s G19 Mag Compatible)

So long, Mighty U

Indian Balalaikas

Reddit Bans Gun Accessory Groups

Of Black Hulls, Buoys, and Grenades along the Mekong

Warship Wednesday, October 8, 2025: Everlasting

Rock photoex

That’s some expensive Grease

Newest U.S. Icebreaker Completes First Patrol

Japanese Light Machine Gun Surfaces in California Traffic Stop

Korean Privateers

By the numbers, Port-au-Prince edition

Army deploying new ‘terrain-shaping munition’ to Europe

Breaking out the Blues

New Uniforms for the Pontifical Swiss Guard

Going home

Taurus GX4 Strike Bravo: ‘the Flux Raider we have at home’

Warship Comings and Goings

Warship Wednesday, October 1, 2025: Small Ship, Big Heroes

CZ P-10 C Ported: Best Budget Compensated 9mm?

Advancing to new finds

USCG Gets Serious on drones as largest icebreaker finishes last (planned) overhaul