KEEPING ARMS COLLECTORS INFORMED
2000-2009 Archives
Volume No. 100, Sept 2009
The Way West
By: Robert E. Mulligan Jr.
New Hampshire Marked French Muskets of the Revolutionary War
By: Michael R. Carroll
Some Thoughts on the Confederate LeMat Revolver
By: Frederick R. Edmunds
The ‘Confederate’ Winchester
By: Benjamin P. Michel
Fabrique Nationale Fusil Semi-Automatique d’Infanterie (FSAI, SAFN, AT, or FN 49)
By: James E. Alley Jr., John A. DeBin
Volume No. 99, April 2009
Jim Baker, The Forgotten Man
By: David Carter
All in the Family
By: Larry Kaufman
Collecting Heavy Metal
By: Hayes Otoupalik
Volume No. 98, Sept 2008
Combat Elegance: Edward Lindner, His Carbines, and the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
By: William Ray Cresswell
The Georgia Pistol Contract … but for the Exigencies of Service
By: Lewis F. Southard
The Trade in Sword Blades
By: Bruce S. Bazelon
William Jenks and the Revenue Marine Service Contracts
By: Paul Doyle
Volume No. 97, May 2008
1792 and 1807 Contract Rifles
By: Edward R. Flanagan
Beautiful Rifles With Pointy Things
By: Richard L. Berglund, Peter A. Albee
Colonel James Carmeon – With Compliments of Colonel Colt
By: Henry A. Truslow
Why Kerrs?
By: Valmor J. Forgett
U.S. Model 1803 Prototype Rifle
By: Michael F. Carrick
Volume No. 96, Sept 2007
A Woman’s View of the Battle of Brandywine
By: Tobi Graham
Myths of the Blunderbuss
By: Melvin Flanagan
Rethinking “Damascus” Steel
By: Ann Feuerbach
Early New England Underhammers in the Style of the Ruggles Patent of 1826
By: Nicholas L. Chandler
Gutta-Percha, Hard Rubber and Synthetics in Firearms
By: James Hardman
Savage Pistols: The Birth of the .45 and the Savage Automatic Pistols
By: Bailey Brower Jr.
Volume No. 95, April 2007
Collecting Firearms Curiosa
By: Matthew Schneiderman
Debunking the Fluck Myth: Colt Legends Die Hard
By: Dick Salzer
Characteristics of U.S. Naval Officers’ Swords
By: Paul Doggett
What Can be Learned from the Landeszeughaus Wheellock Collection in Graz, Austria
By: Robert E. Brooker
Le Mat & Co.: P.G.T. Beauregard and the American Le Mat Revolver
By: Doug A. Adams
Volume No. 94, Sept 2006
The Ames and Deringer Boxlock Story
By: Paul A. Doyle
The Battleground Shootout – Arizona Rangers Fight Smith Gang
By: Ray A. McKnight
A Brief Look at Military Small Arms Production at Steyr, Austria, 1864-1945. (Part 2)
By: Samuel J. Newland
Arms Makers in the Pioneer Valley
By: John D. Hamilton
Third Model Colt Deringers Sold in England
By: Doug Eberhart
Remington – The Early Years
By: Roy M. Marcot
Volume No. 93, May 2006
Early Marine Corps Swords
By: Charles Cureton
Winchester Factory-Scoped .22 Caliber Rifles, 1937-1941
By: Vincent L. Rausch
1864 Attack on Washington, DC: A Day’s Difference
By: Marlan H. Polhemus
A Brief History of the Airgun of Meriwether Lewis and the Corps of Discovery
By: Philip Schreier
The Henrys: Gunsmiths and Arms Manufacturers
By: Ronald G. Gabel & Robert A. Sadler
Volume No. 92, Sept 2005
Swords of the Americas (Western Hemisphere Swords)
By: George Weatherly
The Peabody Conversion Musket
By: Edward Hull
Volume No. 91, May 2005
The FBI Art Theft and the Impact on Collecting
By: Robert Wittman
Grandfather Beale’s Rifle
By: Frederick R. Edmunds
Pennsylvania Contract Muskets – 1797 Arms Procurement Act
By: David Stewart, William Reid
Some Spanish Weapons in the American Revolution
By: Herman O. Benninghoff Jr.
Volume No. 90, Oct 2004
An Editorial, Baby Hammerless Revolvers
By: Frank M. Sellers
Harper’s Ferry Sword Bayonets Model 1841 and Model 1855
By: Richard Lee Berglund
The St. Albans Raid; The Confederate Raid on St. Albans, Vermont October 19, 1864
By: John D. Hamilton
The Norwich Gun Industry
By: Dick Salzer
The Parker Gun: Its History and Evolution
By: Louis C. Parker III.
The Connecticut Contracted ’61 Springfield: The Special Model to the “Good and Serviceable “ Arm
By: David James Nauamec
Volume No. 89, May 2004
Confederate Arms are Not Rare
By: Charles L. Foster
Johannes Bonewitz – Master Gunsmith, Womelsdorf, PA
By: Henry I. Bishop
Rifle Caliber Artillery: The Gardner Battery Gun
By: James W. Alley Jr.
Philadelphia Gunmakers and the Evolution of the “Maryland Sword.”
By: Jacque Andrews
Eighteenth Century American Fowlers – The First Guns Made in America
By: Tom Grinslade
Volume No. 88, Oct 2003
A Plain Old Maynard Rifle
By: Robert M. Holter
The Design, Marketing and Production Of Maynard Rifles
By: Max W. Goodwin
Robert P. Eldredge’s Billinghurst Cylinder Rifle
By: Frank Graves
The Holstered Pepperbox
By: Robert Butterfield
Henry Nock, Innovator
By: Peter S. Wainwright
Volume No. 87, April 2003
English Officers’ Holster Pistols of the Early Georgian Era
By: Lynn M. Chenault
Horace E. Dimick, Master St. Louis Gunsmith
By: R.K.(Kip) Rapp
The Sublette-Beale Hawken
By: Lee Burke
1808 United States Contract Muskets
By: William M. Reid
Volume No. 86, Sept 2002
British Naval Edged Weapons – An Overview
By: Peter Tuite
Simeon North and the U.S. Model 1813 Pistol
By: Frederic L. Starbuck
Stevens Tip-Ups
By: Thomas L. Kyser
Tennessee, Some Rifles and a Carbine
By: George Norton
Volume No. 85, April 2002
A Brief Look at Military Small Arms Production at Steyr, Austria 1864-1900
By: Samuel J. Newland
Small Arms Deliveries Through Wilmington, NC in 1863. The Impact on Confederate Ordnance Policy
By: Howard Michael Madaus
Colt’s Frame .36 Caliber Percussion Pistols and “The Conventional Wisdom”
By: John D. Breslin
A. Foulke, 1864: Tracing a Civil War Inscription
By: Marlan H. Polhemus
The Wilsons: Gunmakers to Empire, 1730-1832
By: De Witt Bailey II
Remington Rifle Cane
By: Elliott L. Burka
Volume No. 84, March 2001
Gunsmith Anecdotes
By: Robin Hale
J. Fondersmith’s Patch Box
By: Ray A. McKnight
Anthony Fricker-A Pennsylvania Gunsmith in the Context of the Early 19th Century
By: Edward R. Flanagan
Joshua Barstow and His 1808 Contract: A Story
By: George D. Cooper
Volume No. 83, Sept 2000
A Brief History of English Pistol Dueling as it Applies to Gun Collectors
By: Stuart C. Mowbray
Trap Guns
By: Melvin Flanagan
The Savage Musket
By: James R. Johnson
Volume No. 82, May 2000
Francis Bannerman VI, Military Goods Dealer to the World
By: Dwight B. Demeritt Jr.
Damascus Steel and Crucible Steel in Central Asia
By: Ann Feuerbach
American Eagle Pommel Dirks
By: Peter Tuite
The Hale Rocket and Rocket Launcher—The American Connection
By: Elmo Phillips
Oh, If it Could Only Talk
By: Charles L. Foster