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 ...

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...

 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...

 Just titling this post was difficult. You'll see this gun referred to by a bunch of different names, with "Shorty Forty" or ...

The history of the 10mm Auto cartridge is well-documented elsewhere (and has been lightly touched on here ) but basically it was the culmin...

By the early 1990s, Smith & Wesson's dominance of the law enforcement market was starting to erode. While the Third Generation au...

As was mentioned the last time we looked at a .38 Safety Hammerless on this blog ('way back in Sunday Smith #2 ), the commonly repeat...

The Smith & Wesson 4046 represents two trends that reached their peak in the mid 1990s. The first is the .40S&W cartridge itself....

As the 1860s drew to a close, America was at the gateway to a new era. The nation had survived a terrible civil war, westward expansion w...

When Smith & Wesson introduced the first double-stack DA/SA pistol to the market in the early 1970s, in the form of the Model 59, it ...

Certain models of Smith & Wesson have bits of apocryphal lore that become permanently entwined with them. You can't see a top-bre...

The compact large-bore revolver has had a devoted following in the United States ever since the first Webley "British Bulldogs"...