KEEPING ARMS COLLECTORS INFORMED
2020-2024 Archives
Volume No. 129, Spring 2024
Collectors’ angst: What do I do with my collection?
By: Craig Bell
Spanning the prod
By: Dick Salzer
Rare American Carbines – The Winchester single shot
By: Jeff Goodson
Admiral John Dahlgren and his Plymouth Rifle
By: Marc Gorelick
The Sharpe pistols
By: Matthew Schneiderman
Arming the U.S. Marines 1797
By: Mark Rentschler and Peter Schmidt
Whitney rifles for Georgia: Another theory
By: Paul D. Johnson
Volume No. 128, Fall 2023
An Outline Of William Jenks and the Chicopee Falls Company Firearms
By: Ralph Spears
Rare American Carbines: The Morse-Muzzy
By: Jeff Goodson
1816 Bayonet Manufacturers and Maker Marks a Comprehensive List
By: Mark Rentschler
The War of 1812 Congressional Swords
By: Peter Tuite
James Bowie’s Knife? The True Story Of James Bowie, Edwin Forest and the Blade That Binds Them
By: Dale Larson
Expanded Post-Publication Version
Napoleon’s March to Moscow
By: Ken Thomsen
Volume No. 127, Spring 2023
A Brief History of Primer Magazines, including William Needham’s Patent Percussion Double Gun
By: Matthew Schneiderman
History on Trial: The Effects on Historians in a Post-Bruen World
By: Ashley Hlebinsky
Early Evolution of the Wesson & Leavitt Revolvers
By: Jeff Goodson
Ballard Firearms in the Civil War
By: Ralph Spears
Tip-Up Tales
By: Bob Adams
Volitional Rifles, The Origins of the Winchester Lever Action
By: Danny Michael
Origins and Evolution of the American Longrifle
By: Mel Hankla and Frank House
The Arms & Armour Society has awarded its Research Medal for 2021 to David Weaver ASAC
By: David J. Williams
Volume No. 126, Fall 2022
The Functional British Powered Horn
By: J. Craig Nannos
Indiana Kentucky Rifle Makers
By: J. Jaeger
Civil War Carbines Service and Survival
By: Jeff Goodson
A collector’s dream: when a gun wants to talk, how will we listen?
By: C. B. Wilson
A Targe With a Secret
By: Steve Andrews
Webley Royal Irish Constabulary Revolvers In .500 Cal
By: Doug Cooper
The First Patent Machine Gun – The Puckle Gun
By: Joseph McClain
Day Of Infamy – A Life Cut Short Ensign Lawrence Williams, USS Arizona
By: Garrick P. Boyd
Arms and Armor of the Pequat War
By: David J. Naumec
The story of a boy, his math teacher and his math teacher’s rifle
By: Brad Simpson
Volume No. 125, Spring 2022
Colt’s Frontier Six Shooter
By: Paul McCombs M. D.
Siege of Boston Powder Horns: History and Art
By: Joel Bohy
Regional Characteristics of Professionally Made Powder Horns
By: Jay Hopkins
Rare American Carbines: the C. C. Brand
By: Jeff Goodson
Wayne’s Improved Muskets
By: Mark G. Rentschler
The Joseph Rock Cooper Transition Revolver—A Missing Sibling is Discovered
By: Matthew Schneiderman
The Evolution of Naval Ordnance: 1820-1866
By: John V. Quarstein
Eugene M. Stoner Designs and Guns Before the M16
By: C. Reed Knight Jr.
If This Gun Could Talk
By: David Albert
The Identification of the Pattern Pistol of 1840
By: Lewis F. Southard
A General Officers’ Sword By Springfield Armory
By: Jack Bethune
The Longrifle Makers of the Davidson School
By: Michael Briggs
Smith Carbines of the Civil War, Part 2
By: Ralph Spears
Volume No. 124, Fall 2021
Joe Elliott, his Sharps rifle and the “Johnson County, Wyoming War”.
By: David Carter
A double sub-inspected Model 73 Single Action Colt Army.
By: John H. Ewing
More on cannon locks at the U. S. Army Artillery Museum.
By: Frederick C. Gaede
The Korean snap matchlock: a global microhistory
By: Hyeok Hweon Kang
The “enigma” of Clay Bedford’s Collier collection
By: Ben Nicholson
The Dresden Birdshoot
By: Dick Salzar
Early firearms of Gilbert Smith, Part 1
By: Ralph Spears
Commodore Hull’s presentation sword
By: Ken Thomsen
Did Wogdon bend his barrels crooked to make them shoot straight?
By: David S. Weaver
Volume No. 123, Spring 2021
Discoveries in American Revolutionary war insignia
By: Nick Manganiello
The incredible Linder repeater: a good idea that didn’t work
By: D. H. Hanes
Hardin: the Texas pistoleer
By: Lynn Wood
Brigade surgeon Edwin Bentley’s presentation cased L. Pond revolver (and more!)
By: Paul R. Johnson
Lucius Wilson Pond: machine tool maker, gun maker and fraudster
By: Michael Helms
A Revolutionary War “GON”
By: Tom Grinslade
Three muskets in the defense of Baltimore, September 12-14, 1812
By: Frederick C. Gaede
Flintlock Cannon Ignitors
By: Dick Salzer and Matt Sears
It was a rough neighborhood: a comparison of the Starr 1808 cutlass
By: Mike Edwards
The Whitney Ring Trigger Pocket Revolver
By: Frank Graves
Volume No. 122, Fall 2020
A high quality German wheel-lock sporting rifle
By: Lee Bull
Willian J. Christy’s patent derringer
By: Fred W. Clough and W. P. Sellke
Perter Neihart (1743-1813) gunsmith of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
By: Ronald G. Gabel
General Harney and Sharps carbines
By: Edward W. Marron
Gunpowder testing – eprouvettes
By: Dick Salzer
The rare and interesting Rose Model 1807 Cavalry saber
By: John H. Thillmann
Presentation pair of North pistols for Captain Isaac Hull
By: Ken Thomsen
Viral pandemic – reflection
By: Paul R. Johnson
Reverse trapdoor musket conversions
By: Edward Hull
Smith & Wesson and the Civil War
By: Roy G. Jinks
Treasures from the Back of the Vault – US Army Artillery Museum
By: Gordon A. Blaker
Volume No. 121, May 2020
A Tale of Two Pandemics
By: Paul R. Johnson
Revolutionary war powder horns
By: Tom Grinslade
Quite a genius in art: Wiley Higgins, Master gunsmith
By: Wayne Elliott
Hunting with a homemade wheel-lock
By: Michael Carrick
A long search that paid off: Isaac Thompson Mecklenburg longrifle
By: Michael Briggs
Tinder lighters
By: Dick Salzer
The U.S. M1917 carbine: mystery solved
By: David Albert
The enigmatic military pistols of John Joseph Henry
By: Lewis F. Southard
The Model 1861 Rifle Musket contract of William Mason, Taunton, Massachusetts
By: Paul R. Johnson