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Rock Island, IL.
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Clyde Barrow’s sawed-off #Browning Auto-5 16-ga. “Whippet” shotgun with shortened stock will be offered by @RIAuction between August 21 and 23, 2026, in Bedford, #Texas with a preview on Aug. 20. The Public Enemy’s shotgun was recovered from the scene of the Ambush of Bonnie & Clyde in May 1934 and is well documented. What final bid will it bring when the auctioneer’s gavel falls?
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Visited our friends at @RIAuction in Texas this morning. They have an amazing facility and some incredible guns in their auction that starts tomorrow.
-- Larry Potterfield
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For our 250th episode we discussed the life and career of Robert Duvall on @FightingOnFilm this week. Check it out 👇
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For the U.S. Army, its standard small-arms inventory began with a shipment of French Charleville muskets, and from that grew a rich history of firearm development that's spanned 250 years.
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This week, we're putting the "old" in "I Have This Old Gun" with a medieval hand cannon. Reaching back some seven centuries, the concept of using some form of explosive powder to launch projectiles predates movable type.
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A Remington 870 with an underbarrel Browning Hi Power. Because sometimes you need more gun with your gun.
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An icon on of the 1980s, H&K's G11 prototype was meant to be the future of shoulder arms. It was capable of firing it's caseless, 4.73mm ammunition at 460rpm in full auto or a 3-round burst of 2100rpm. Magazines up to 50 rounds capacity were fed from the front, over the barrel, with the bullets pointed downwards. One fuction of the complex mechanism was, of course, to redirect these out the front. There is no ejection cycle.
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80 years ago today, Norman Rockwell’s iconic “Homecoming Marine” graced the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. 🇺🇸
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Sergeant Jack Gebhardt of the Australian 1st Squadron, SASR (Special Air Service Regiment), points to direct his men while on patrol. The Viet Cong came to call them "Ma Rung" - Phantoms of the Jungle. Phuoc Tuy Province, 1970.
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Today in 1918, the Unites States and France launch the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. More than 1.2 million Allied troops are committed making it the largest operation ever undertaken by America's military. And with more than 27,000 U.S. soldiers killed, it's also the deadliest.
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In August of 1894, one of the first Bicycle Guns was shipped from the factory. These were .32 Safety Hammerless with very short 1.5” or 2” barrels, designed to be carried and drawn with ease.
This specific engraved and gold plated Smith & Wesson .32 Safety Hammerless 1st Model Bicycle revolver with pearl grips sold for $28,750 in RIAC's June 2020 Premier Auction.
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The Winchester Model 1876 was based on “The gun that won the West” and chambered for significantly more powerful cartridges. It was made to be a true big game rifle and was chambered for black powder cartridges up to the 50-95.
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