Curios and Relics
Greener shotguns have always been well-regarded and used the proven Martini action, so they were a natural place to turn to arm colonial police.
The first commercially viable self-contained metallic cartridge was the Pin-fire. Let's have a look at that.
I like small, clever guns. Sure, as weapons they are severely compromised but hey, they're fun!
An undistinguished representative of it's type, but it's actually kind of charming.
I've wanted one of Erma's 'Baby Lugers' for quite a while, and for no particularly good reason. When this one popped up at an attractive price there was never any doubt I would have it. So, is it any good?
Not really on my radar, but when it came up at an irresistible price I couldn't resist. Um, duh? It was irresistible. I think I need more coffee...
The Colt Police Positive Special was not only a popular pistol with 20th Century law enforcement, it was the basis for the iconic Detective Special. Of course being me I forgot to mention that the Police Positive was the first Colt with a mechanism to render it drop-safe, which is why it was 'Positive.'
In the mid 1930s France considered adopting the GP35- the Browning High Power. Instead they adopted this...
I've always found the Tokarev interesting but never owned one until now. The perfect Tok for me practically dropped into my lap and I snapped it up. Glad I did!
Pretty cool old gun, very Luger-looking, yet quite unlike a Luger.
HK is a giant now, but they gad to start somewhere. Like with this pistol...
Perhaps this gun made some sort of sense when new, but I can't for the life of me think what it was.
Not your normal combination of features on a .22 rifle!
Rook-and-Rabbit rifles were popular before the introduction of high-velocity .22 LR ammunition, and they have a lot to recommend them even today.
Tiny pistols firing tiny, low-power cartridges have been around as long as metallic rimfire cartridges have. In recent years they have fallen out of favor, but they are still around.
This was a sub-caliber adapter for training used by the British, and it's a pretty interesting device.
As part of the Eastern Block during the Cold War the Czechs were supposed to use Soviet military gear. But they didn't like Soviet equipment so they made their own.
Bullseye competition was a very big deal in the 20th C., and this is one of Colt's finest competition pistols from the period.
Adopted by the British nave and never a great success, but an interesting pistol nonetheless.