This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, Connecticut. In 1857, Brown contracted Blair to forge pikes for the clandestine slave insurrection he was planning for Harpers Ferry....
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Moral of the Story: The client isn't always right....
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AG-026 is a simple/direct blowback firearm firing from an open bolt with a fixed firing pin. The bolt itself is fairly compact and low profile with a small cross-sectional area for decreased resistance while cycling in water, however, it is linked to а pair of rotating gears/flywheels enclosed in the circular housings mounted...
Kel-Tec has long been renown as the most innovative (but not necessarily good) manufacturer of firearms. This prototype was designed during the 1994 AW ban, that's why it has a oddly cut barrel....
This is a prototype or one-off over/under sporting shotgun, made in a bullpup configuration. It is basically two long slabs of wood clamshell around a pair of barrels, with the action at the very end in the stock. The breech rotates up to open, activated by a lever on the surface of the buttplate. That’s certainly strange...
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The barrel is octagonal, slightly swamped and with a plain muzzle. Simple triangular foresight and a single backsight decorated by a concave forward section. The barrel is fastened to the stock by four pierced lugs underneath. On the upper surface of the barrel near the breech is a mon inlaid in silver in the form of a circle...
Armour presented to King James I by Tokugawa Hidetada. Possibly originally for Takeda Katsuyori and modified by Iwai Yozaemon for presentation in about 1610....
>The spear has a large, leaf-shaped blade with pronounced medial ridge and a short hexagonal socket pierced to receive the bolt of a toggle. The bolt ends in a loop from which the toggle is hinged....
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Designed by Gerry Fox in the early 1970s, this carbine saw production sequentially as the Fox Carbine, the TAC-1, and the XF-7 Wasp, as it went through several different manufacturers. It is an open bolt, semiauto carbine sold in both 9mm Parabellum and .45 ACP – and you could get caliber conversion kits consisting of a bolt...
These items were seized from American U2 pilot Frank Powers in 1960 after he was shot down by the Soviets. Notably including a cyanide pill hidden in a coin, a poison tipped needle, and a integrally suppressed High Standard 22lr pistol.
The PSS-2, as the name implies is the next generation of the PSS design which was adopted in the 1980s. The original gun boasted the ability to be shot silently without a suppressor due to its special piston based 7.62x42 SP4 ammo....
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ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02....
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This 7mm Belgian needle fire breech loading pistol would have been used for target shooting in one's parlor, presumably on rainy days....
