Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog

Welcome back to the AmmoLand News image vault. Here we pull out an assortment of images featuring the iconic Browning Automatic Rifle.

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The term Bullpup was first used to describe embellished target pistols, so I’m not sure how, nor when, it first came to describe this particular design for rifles.

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The frantic arms-race between France and Germany was to continue well into the Twentieth Century.

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The Winchester rifles were synonymous with winning the West, but to point out which of those rifles that actually achieved that has been open for debate.

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In this series photographer, Alfred T. Palmer and others take us on a photo tour of a 1940 factory producing M1 Garands under the direct supervision of John C. Garand.

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Perhaps LBJ and McNamara thought the military would abandon the M-16 quickly after the Vietnam War. The M-16 was never meant to be America’s battle rifle; it was just a favor to a friend.

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SMGs have since fallen out of favor with the world’s armies. An argument can still be made for their use, but most militaries no longer have any interest...

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This Model 1874 Sharps arrived in the collection in 1975 and really had no history attached to it other than being an old gun from a donor in Montana.

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Discover a remarkable wheel-lock dated at around 1580 to 1590 that fires sixteen rounds without reloading --and can fire them all with a single pull of the trigger!

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The NRA’s National Firearms Museum is full of eminent collections and is honored to showcase a Colt revolver, on loan, that once belonged to W.F. Cody.

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How an Air Force general helped bring the AR-15 rifle to the U.S. military, which would go on to inspire the M16 rifle and change the face of military arms forever.

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