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Happy Independence Day: Guns of the Grunt 1776-2020

by Chris Eger

Back-to-back World War champs and arguably the strongest military in the world, America's Soldiers have carried a wide array of rifles in the past 244 years.

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Throwback: The Gun Rack at the Navajo Lodge, 1940

by Chris Eger

Eighty years ago, a photographer captured a New Mexico lodge in time, and many of the guns on hand were classics both then and now.

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The Pedersen Device: The WWI superweapon that (almost) won the war

by Chris Eger

Called to join the brutal trench warfare of WWI at the eleventh hour, American gun makers rallied back home in a push to send the Doughboys over there with best weapons American ingenuity could muster. Unsung firearms maven John Pedersen contributed one such device that, had it seen frontline service as intended, would have blown German minds (quite literally).

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