Guns Australia's John Robinson and Paul Scarlata test pistols and longarm collectables.

01 Jul 2011

When Ruger first announced its M77 Scout rifle earlier this year, we Aussies knew it would be of immediate interest to pig hunters, and we did not need Jeff Cooper to tell us about short and powerful bolt action rifles after 50 years of exposure to .303 SMLE Jungle Carbines with their 10-shot magazines.

01 Apr 2011

While Paul’s story has a US focus, the phasing out of the S&W Model 10 revolver has also happened in Australia over the past decade and is now largely a part of local police firearms history that parallels the US experience.

01 Jan 2011

I don’t believe that anyone will disagree with me when I state up front that the 9mm Parabellum is the most widely used, centrefire, pistol cartridge in history. That’s it; period; end of discussion!

01 Oct 2010

On a winter’s day in March 1902, an angry John Moses Browning stormed out of the offices of Winchester president T.G. Bennett. Bennett’s refusal to come to certain financial arrangements with Browning assured that Winchester would always be a secondary player in the soon to be lucrative, semi-auto sporting shotgun and rifle business.

01 Jul 2010

It all began in 1886 when the Austro-Hungarian army adopted the first practical clip-fed, repeating rifle, the 11mm Repetier-Gewehr M.86 Mannlicher.

01 Apr 2010

While he is usually referred to in less then endearing terms, on a number of occasions I have heard American veterans of World War 2 refer to him as “...our greatest ally.” His real name? Why, it was Adolph Hitler!

01 Jan 2010

Most fans of firearms would have little trouble naming the designers of the more prominent military rifles of 19th and 20th centuries – Mauser, Lee, Mosin, Arisaka, Mannlicher, Garand, Saive, Kalashnikov and Stoner are all familiar.

01 Oct 2009

Ever since the introduction of shoulder firearms soldiers and designers have been shortening them to make handier and lighter weapons.