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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