The Arms Room

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

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 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

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...

H&R Self-Loading .25 pistol. The safety worked backwards from the usual, in that up was "fire" and down was "safe"...

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...

Smith & Wesson was traditionally a manufacturer of revolvers. The company's name and fortune had been built on the Rollins-White pat...

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

"Hey, how much is my gun worth?" " Do you have it with you? " "No..." " *sigh* "  Below are ...

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...

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

ABOVE: Early American .32 pocket automatics from Harrington & Richardson, Colt's, and Savage. In the early 20th Century, American co...

When Smith & Wesson ushered in the metallic cartridge era in American handgunning, .31 caliber was already established as the de facto s...