Whether you keep a gun kit for the purposes of making repairs to an existing platform on an as needed, ad hoc basis or get a gun kit with the intention of building your own firearm at home, there are … read more

Chances are, if you have an M1 carbine, it came with a detachable 15 or 30-round magazine.There are aftermarket M1 carbine magazines out there, but most of them all follow the same basic configuration … read more

If you build an AR-15 (or some other AR-style platform), the AR 15 parts kit you build it from might come with everything you need except a lower receiver blank.Then again, there are some common parts … read more

It’s easy to get confused talking about the “M1 bayonet” since the M1 designation was shared across a wide range of models, including the bayonet as well as the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine.This is becaus … read more

Ever since the development of the first firearms, enterprising military commanders, soldiers, and gunsmiths have been making an attempt to strike a compromise for the platform’s inherent dependency on … read more