KEEPING ARMS COLLECTORS INFORMED
2010-2019 Archives
Volume No. 120, September 2019
The Jacob Rifle and its Exploding Projectile
By: Bob Carlson
Gardiner’s Explosive Musket Shell
By: John D. Hamilton
Civil War Exploding Bullets — A Medical Review of Cases
By: Paul R. Johnson MD
The Scottish Two-Handed Sword
By: Tony Willis
Volume No. 119, May 2019
Twelve Great Carvers
By: Tom Grinslade
The Mecklenberg Longrifle School
By: C. Michael Briggs
Imperial German Army Swords
By: Gordon A. Blaker
Eugene Reising’s Firearm Designs
By: David R. Albert
An Approach to Evaluating Historically Attributed Firearms
By: Jim Supica
Volume No. 118, September 2018
Libertas Americana Saber (circa 1783-1790)
By: Chris Grazzini
Fit for a Cadet
By: David H. Hanes
The Travails of Mosby’s Revolvers
By: Stephen G. Basheda
A Cursed, Abominable Device? The True, Shared History of Knights and Firearms
By: Dr. Tobias Capwell FSA
So What – Who Cares?
By: William Rose
Firing an Imagination
By: Craig and Mary Ann Rose
Simeon North and the Pattern of 1811 Army Pistols v2
By: Lewis F. Southard & Frank Martin
Volume No. 117, April 2018
Simeon North and the Pattern of 1811 Army Pistols
By: Lewis F. Southard & Frank Martin
A survey of pick & brushes at the 127th meeting of the ASAC, King of Prussia, PA
By: Fred Gaeda, Lee Bull
The J. and F. Garrett Revolvers
By: Shannon Pritchard
Collecting
By: Matthew Schneiderman
A unique Confederate naval cutlass attributed to the CSS Florida
By: Gerald C. Roxbury
Masterpiece rifles of the Cumberland
By: Mel Stweart Hankla
Volume No. 116, September 2017
Hemingway’s “Lost” Guns, Cuba’s Finca Vigía gives up its Secrets
By: Calabi, Helsley, Sanger
Caude Roy: Graveur Sur Tous Metaux au Chariot d’Or
By: Herbert Houze
Max Bryan, his Gas Trap M1 Garand
By: George Dillman
Jedediah Smith, the Man who Opened the Far West
By: Milton Von Damm
Volume No. 115, April 2017
The Palmetto Rifle – an Examination of Survivors
By: Fred Novy
James H. Merrill and the Cannon by the Door
By: Richard L. Bergland and Frank S. Harrington
History of the Savage Revolving Arms Company
By: Ken Thomson
Joseph Perkin Arms the Revolution
By: Matthew Skic
Colonel for a Year
By: Ralph Shepard
Volume No. 114, Oct 2016
1794/1798 U.S. Contact Muskets
By: William M. Reid
The Early Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Rifle as Issued 1902-1932
By: Kirk Brumbaugh
The Charleston City Guard and their Muskets
By: Mark Rentschler
Renovating the Cody Firearms Museum
By: Ashley Hlebinsky
Volume No. 113, June 2016
The Cook Brothers Confederate Armory
By: Penn Templeman
The Confederate States Armory at Ashville, a Study in Confederate Defeat
By: Gordon L. Jones
Could my Bayonet be Confederate?
By: Paul D. Johnson
North Carolina Schools of Longrifles 1765-1865
By: William Ivey
Recent Discoveries in Swords by American Silversmiths
By: Jack Bethune
Volume No. 112, Sept 2015
A fourth Haslett-Marked Musket
By: Frederick C. Gaede
Colts Award to Robert Dickie Stannus
By: Michael Carrick
Jacob Markley – a Frontier Gunsmith
By: Edward R. Flanagan
James Haslett, Baltimore Gunsmith and the War of 1812
By: Frederick C. Gaede
Rifles and Bayonets of the German American Turners
By: Peter Albee
Volume No. 111, May 2015
The NRA National Sporting Arms Museum
By: R. Starbuck and J. Supica
Guns to Save Lives: an Introduction to Line Throwing Guns
By: J. Spangler
Samuel Pauly and I: an Ignition Odyssey
By: M. Schneiderman
A Luger Short Story
By: J. Eckert
Winchester Model 1895: the WWI Russian Contract
By: M. Carrick
Swords of the Tabor Light Cavalry of Leadville, Colorado
By: J. Bethune
Volume No. 110, Sept 2014
History of Medicine: Civil War Surgery
By: P. R. Johnson
James Reid’s Catskill Knuckledusters
By: J. Reid
Volume No. 109, April 2014
Roberts Conversion Muskets, Rifles, and Carbines
By: Edward Hull
A survey of Model 1808 S. North Naval Pistols
By: Frank Martin, Lew Southard
Tombstone In Fantasy and Reality
By: K. Mulkins
Volume No. 108, Sept 2013
M1 Carbine From Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944
By: J. Ewing
The Bullard Rifle , James Herbert Bullard, Inventor
By: G. Weicht
Brief notes on Three Subjects
By: Herbert G. Houze
Barney Benjamin Day
By: David Carter
Volume No. 107, May 2013
Jonathan Hennem and his Screwless Lock
By: J. Paine
Smith & Wesson at the Worlds Columbian Exposition
By: P. De Rose
A.B. Fairbanks…The Yankee Gunsmith
By: Nick Chandler
New Hampshire Gun Makers 1835-1875: The Percussion Era
By: M. Carroll
Frisby T. Dix: Eighth Alabama Infantry Regiment
By: R. Ballard
Sharpshooter Weapons in the American Civil War
By: B. Carlson
Volume No. 106, Oct 2012
0.44 Caliber Flat Frame Dance Revolvers
By: Eugene E. Miller
Automatic Priming Systems
By: D. Salzar
Winchester Firearms Exports to France in World War I
By: M.F. Carrick
Volume No. 105, June 2012
Thomas Morse: A Yankee Confederate Yankee Gunsmith
By: M. Carroll and G. L. Jones
1795 Springfield Muskets:1795-1815
By: William M. Reid
A Note on Flint-locks and the Flintlock
By: J. S. Gooding
The First Battle of the War of 1812
By: S. K. Andrews
Volume No. 104, Sept 2011
Edwin Budding and his Pepperbox: A 21st Century Update
By: M. Schneiderman
Proofs on Sterling Silver
By: R. Holter
Volume No. 103, April 2011
Spencer Sporting Rifles
By: M. Sears
Leech and Rigdon Revisited
By: K. Wall
The Longrifle Makers of Guilford County
By: C. M. Briggs
John Peason: Gunsmith for Sam Colt
By: R. Pershing
The U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
By: Gordon A. Blaker
Volume No. 102, Sept 2010
The other side of Ames Sword Company
By: D. Silvey
The National Projectile Works
By: J. D. Hamilton
The Gustloff Pistole
By: B. Adams
CSI: St Valentine’s Day Massacre
By: Lieutenant Kline
The Thompson Submachine Gun Model of 1919
By: T. L. Hill
Volume No. 101, April 2010
Indian Trade Guns: A Brief History, Mid 1600s to Early 1900s
By: William M. Reid
Tracking Harpers Ferry Pistol Serial Numbers
By: David Prawdzik
United State Naval Academy Fencing Foils
By: Henry A. Truslow
The Confederate Powder Works at Augusta, Georgia
By: Gordon A. Blaker
American Military Canteens of the Revolutionary War
By: J. Craig Nannos, Rex Kessler
John C. Garand’s Rifles: His Very Own
By: Allan D. Cors