The Arms Room

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

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...

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

The Dreyse 1907 is a .32 ACP blowback pistol that, while obviously influenced by FN's Browning 1900, dodges its patents by using a sli...

.32 Hand Ejector Model of 1896 Smith & Wesson had first made their name with the tip-up line of rimfire revolvers. The tip-up lockin...

Noodling around with the Webley .32, I suddenly got an idea. One of the oddest features of the little Webley/H&R automatics is their t...

Our American Cousin... H&R's safety-laden .32 is pictured here with its English progenitor, the Webley & Scott .32 automa...

Self-loading pistols of any type were still far from mainstream when Savage put the finishing touches on their Model 1907, and despite the...

One of the side benefits of working in a gun store is that it makes collecting cartridges pretty easy; it seems like you're always runni...

Duplicates, L to R: Remington, Savage, and Colt. While the nice copies above are beginning to fetch actual money, the shooter-grade beater...

A Tale of Two Savage 1907s: I've always had a little bit of a weak spot for these things for a number of reasons: Their Buck Rogers Ar...

The decades around the turn of the 20th Century were a time of technological change that is hard to appreciate even when reading about it on...

Smith & Wesson did not invent the metallic cartridge revolver but, by buying the Rollins White patent and manufacturing it on a wide sca...

The real story behind the Safety Hammerless revolvers from Smith & Wesson is as hard to track down as many myths that predate the little...

A quick vignette of three more European .32 autos: The top one, in the white, is an Austrian Steyr-Pieper M1908/34. Not content with the biz...

At first glance, "early .32 Auto pocket pistols" seems to be a strange collecting niche. I mean, why? What's the fascination? ...

Above are three representatives of the great diversity of early 20th Century European pocket pistols chambered in 7.65 Browning (or .32 ACP,...

In writing Saturday's post about pocket autos , I spent some time examining the actual pistols as well as exploded drawings. I also look...