There are very few handguns - perhaps very few firearms at all - that can claim the iconic essence of the M1911. In the years since its design and release, it has been spread like wildfire throu … read more

Designed in 1915 by John Leopold Brodie, the Brodie helmet was the first of the three main World War 2 helmets to come into existence. John Leopold Brodie was an entrepreneur and inventor who had … read more

Designed in 1943 by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, one of the fathers of the modern assault rifle, the SKS, short for Samozaryadny Karabin sistemy Simonova, 1945—or self-loading carbine of the Simonov sy … read more

One of twenty-two children, John Moses Browning was born the son of a Mormon gunsmith who was among thousands of Mormon pioneers to make the exodus to Utah, establishing a shop in Ogden, Utah in 18 … read more