The Arms Room

Smith & Wesson made literal millions of their famous Military & Police model medium-frame revolver in the .38 Special caliber, but o...

From its introduction in 1955 until its production ended in 1982, Smith & Wesson's first generation of single-stack nines saw only m...

Smith & Wesson launched upgraded versions of their original Model 39 and Model 59 double-action semiautomatic 9x19mm service pistols in ...

Elbert Searle's design for the Savage pistol claimed that it was a locked breech design, but it was nothing of the sort. It was really a...

The .380ACP cartridge was developed by John Moses Browning and debuted on these shores in Colt's Model 1908 Pocket Hammerless. It would,...

When Smith & Wesson started making their single-stack, double-action 9mm semiauto pistol in the mid-1950s, the Model 39 was pretty typic...

When the Savage Model 1907 hit the market in 1908, it had very little competition in the compact pocket autoloader segment here in America. ...

When Savage resumed manufacturing handguns for the civilian market after the Great War, a few changes were made to the basic Model 1907. Ref...

Sales of Savage's little Model 1907 pocket pistols had gotten off to a good start. They looked modern, had good advertising, and the ten...

Last week's Savage 1907 was the variant known as the "1907-10 Modif. #2" and was made sometime in early 1911. Only two and a h...

Few patents in the firearms industry gave a manufacturer such an effective stranglehold on a market as did Smith & Wesson's licensin...

 There was a time, back when I first got this Model 12-2 , that I was skeptical of its utility as a carry piece due to my reluctance to fire...

So the above photo has two Smith & Wesson rimfire revolvers, built probably about thirty years or so apart. The top one is a .22/.32 Hea...

The first I-frame revolvers were technically the Model of 1896, with its combination ejector rod/cylinder release and topstrap-mounted cylin...

The full-size Model No.3 was Smith & Wesson's first top-break revolver, as distinguished from the tip-up rimfire guns on which the c...

Smith & Wesson's small "I-frame" revolvers had their genesis in the first swing-out cylinder revolver the manufacturer off...

When Smith & Wesson got back into the centerfire autoloader game about a decade after WWII, they only offered the pistol in one chamberi...