Among modern gunmakers, Dan Wesson is a particularly revered figure. In the late 1960s, he broke off from the family business—that business being Smith & Wesson—to start his own gun company. The ...
The Odyssey of the Smith & Wesson Model 39/59, from its Germanic origins to the gun shops of America and the jungles of Vietnam, was unique and very much a product of the Cold War. Although out of ...
Key point: The Model 39 is a capable gun that earned its spot in American firearms history. One of the earliest American nine-millimeter pistols was adopted for wartime service to take out enemy ...
A gunmaker by any other name: Why Smith & Wesson wants to change its name to American Outdoor Brands
For more than a century, the name Smith & Wesson has been inextricably associated with firearms. Demand was so high for Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson’s first revolver during the Civil War that the ...
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Smith & Wesson Model 459: The Chosen 9mm Autopistol of 1980s’ FBI SWAT
FBI SWAT purchased roughly 800 Smith & Wesson Model 459s on a trial run circa 1984. For the overwhelming majority of the ...
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