This is a very rare style of Japanese matchlock, with three separate barrels on a revolving axis. It has all the design and decorative elements of a tanegashima musket, but built more as a self-defense piece for home or perhaps when traveling by palanquin. Think of it like the Edo-period Japanese...

On July 14th, 1914 the 50 foot pleasure yacht “Asgard” sailed into Howth harbor in Dublin with its cabin completely filled with arms. It has 900 Mauser 1871 rifles and 29,000 rounds of ammunition for the Irish Volunteers, and there is a crowd of a thousand people turned out to unload them - just ...

Since inadvertently becoming "the Ruby guy" I have had to regularly remote diagnose problems with disassembling their Ruby's. Since they are pretty basic as firearms go, there is only so much that can go wrong and only so many ways of solving those pesky disassembly issues. In this vid we show yo...

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The M/41b has often been touted as "The best sniper rifle of WW2". But is it?

It certainly has a great set of stats: amazing cartridge (6.5x55mm)...

This is a really interesting piece with a mostly unknown origin. It was manufactured in the UK (the barrel was deemed Enfield-made by former Royal Armouries curator Herb Woodend) and is chambered for the .58 Morse centerfire cartridge. The date of production is unknown. It uses a gravity-feed mag...

In this episode of #WITW, we take a close look at the British Special Forces’ mysterious 'battle rifle' - the HK417.

Or as it was designated in service: the L2A1 "SACTARASS" (yes, that acronym really stands for Semi Automatic Counter Terrorist Assault Rifle and Sniper System).

When Germany occupied Belgium in the summer of 1940, the took over the FN factory complex and ordered production of the High Power pistol to continue. It was put into German service as the Pistole 640(b), and nearly 325,000 of them were made between 1940 and 1944. The first ones were simply assem...

This short arquebus was found in a bog in Hungary and now it is in the collection of the Royal Armouries in Leeds, UK. This is one of the very first wheellocks we know about today, and one of the very first pistols. First part of a series by Capandball.

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of visiting my friends at the Cody Firearms Museum and while having a look through their collection we came across a really interesting rifle. A Winchester prototype developed at the turn of the 20th century which had a T-shaped charging handle, something whic...

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Black powder military rifles of the 1860s-1880s are a really enjoyable group of guns. A lot of them are relatively reasonably priced, and they are actually pretty easy to reload for. The unavailability of factory ammunitio...

In this video we look at German Medical Services of the Second World War, particularly how a wounded or ill-soldier was moved through the various station of medical care from the front-line to the home front.

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The Type 79 is an overly-complex submachine gun that uses a scaled-down AK operating system chambered for 7.62x25mm Tokarev. In many ways, this is akin to the H&K MP7 - it's a miniaturized combat rifle. The locked breech system allows the reciprocating parts to be arather lighter than a simple bl...

The first rifle made in Sam Colt’s Paterson NJ factory was the 1837 “ring lever” rifle. These were rather fragile and underpowered and while they were used successfully in the First Seminole War, they needed improvement. Colt set about doing this with his 1839 pattern, which was more robust and m...

Ever wondered what Jonathan Ferguson (Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal... etc) gets up to on his holidays? Well, it's pretty much exactly what you would expect...

Mark your calendars; Moons Out 2026 will be March 6-8 at the Echo Valley Training Center, in WV. Practiscore registration will open December 1:

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After World War One, there was a lot of tinkering with the BAR by the US military. It was recognized as being a very good platform, but the original M1918 configuration left a lot to be desired. It was deemed to heavy to use effectively form the shoulder, but also not really well suited to sustai...

Here we examine the "smallbore paradigm", the functioning of this type of Rifle, the details of the Shooting Box and yes, even some shooting.

Awfully obsolete at the time of acceptance but still a very interesting cavalry arm from the American Civl War. The M 1855 pistol-carbine was adopted the same year as the M1855 rifle musket. In a time when wide variety of breech loaders were already accessible, including a few firing metallic car...

"Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic" by Jennifer Niven:
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In the past couple days, I have had two people send me two different images, asking me to identify the odd rifles in them. Both were posted claiming to be Ada Blackjack, and Inuit woman who survive...

As the main national armory, Springfield got a number of requests to make specialty rifles for commissioned officers and important dignitaries each year. These were essentially all custom sporting rifles, and the orders were duly filled. In 1875, however, the decision was made to standardize a fo...

From imagery shared by Ukrainian armed forces personnel over recent months it appears that Italy has provided an unconfirmed number of Beretta SC70/90 5.56x45mm rifles. The SC70/90 is part of the AR70/90 family of rifles which has been in service since the 1990s.

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In the 1890s, there was a lot of interest in small caliber, simple revolvers for self-defense by cyclists, primarily against dogs. This led to the creation of a whole category of “velodog” revolvers, and a Belgian designer named Herman patented this extension of the idea. It is a 6-shot, 5mm pinf...

The Mk20 SSR / SCAR-H PR / TPR was a variant that FN had continued to capitalize on their initial success with SOCOM's adoption of the Mk16 (SCAR-L) and Mk17 (SCAR-H). While the SCAR-H (17) was an adequate DMR, there a few other improvements (outside of extending the receiver and barrel) that FN ...