The Arms Room

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Since the discontinuation of the ill-fated Model 61 Escort in '73 and well into the '80s, Smith & Wesson didn't have any ...

With their Second Generation auto lineup in the mid-Eighties, Smith & Wesson offered a .45ACP pistol that was more or less aimed right...

Last Friday I took a couple of .25 ACP pocket pistols along to the range, just to see what shooting them would be like alongside the newes...

Then & Now

When the Rollin White patent for bored-through cylinders, held by Smith & Wesson, expired in 1870, Colt's was ready with challenge...