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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 ...
In our latest Gun Of The Week episode, we’re on the range with the Smith & Wesson Model 19 Carry Comp, a medium-size revolver ...
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 ...
Way back in the mid-1980s, after the United States Army adopted the Beretta 92F as its new standard sidearm, police agencies around the country began to follow suit. Living in Maryland as I was, and ...
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 ...
FBI SWAT purchased roughly 800 Smith & Wesson Model 459s on a trial run circa 1984. For the overwhelming majority of the ...