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Live .300 Blackout AR Pistol The cartridge built so a short barrel would stop being a compromise, worked through from the numbers: velocity against barrel length measured rather than assumed, why supersonic and subsonic are really two cartridges sharing a case, the brace-and-SBR law tracked to the agency’s own filings, and the chambering mistake that destroys the rifle. Live
Live Beretta U22 Neos The .22 pistol Beretta designed in Maryland and had styled by Giugiaro Design in Turin, then advertised as “Cool, Futuristic Design”: its modular barrel-and-grip architecture, its striker-in-the-receiver mechanism, the 2010 recall, the carbine kit, and the law of turning a pistol into a rifle and back. Live
Live Bergmann 1896 and 1897 Theodor Bergmann's self-loaders of the 1890s, designed by Louis Schmeisser: the clip-fed blowback 1896 in 5, 6.5 and 8 mm and the laterally locked 1897 No. 5 in 7.8 mm. History and trials, both mechanisms, identification, care, the five cartridges, the market and the law, and how one could be made. Live
Live Borchardt C-93 Hugo Borchardt's 1893 toggle-locked pistol, the first commercially made self-loader and the parent of the Luger: its makers and trials, the mechanism from the factory's own manuals and the 1896 US Navy description, identification, the factory takedown, the cartridge question, the market and the law, and a from-scratch build path. Live
Live Flux Raider The Flux Defense Raider chassis family from the maker's own record — the Glock brace, the MP17, the Raider and the Raider X: how the P320 rides in it, what fits, how to install, keep and repair it from SIG's published manual, and how to plan further builds on it. Live
Live FP-45 Liberator The million-unit stamped-steel OSS single-shot .45 — built in 11 weeks, mostly never dropped. Live
Live High Standard Sentinel The nine-shot .22 that Sears asked for in 1955: a die-cast aluminium frame with no thumb latch and one screw, Harry Sefried's keyhole ratchet, the 1957–62 Dura-Tone snubs in gold, turquoise and pink, every series and private label from the R-100 to the Mark IV, and what one is worth now. Live
Live H&K Mk 23 SOCOM's Offensive Handgun Weapon System pistol and the commercial Mark 23: the OHWS programme, the buffered-guide-rod recoil system, identification against the USP .45s, H&K's own maintenance procedures, accuracy and +P ammunition, the suppressor and aiming module, and buying one. Live
Live LeMat Revolver Jean Alexandre LeMat's nine-shot revolver with a shotgun barrel for its cylinder pin, traced through its patents, its Confederate contracts, every model from the Krider prototypes to the carbines, and today's Pietta reproductions, ending with a percussion build path and the federal and Michigan law. Live
Live Luger P08 (Parabellum) Georg Luger's toggle-locked Parabellum, from the Swiss 1900 and the Navy's 1904 to the P08, the long pistol, Mauser's code years and Krieghoff's limited edition of 2006: history, the 7.65 and 9 mm cartridges, the mechanism from the Swiss service manual, identification, field strip and repair, ATF's list of stocked Lugers removed from the NFA read entry by entry, and a from-scratch build from the Swiss federal drawings. Live
Live Mannlicher M1901 & M1903 Ferdinand Mannlicher's two production pistols: the cam-delayed blowback M1901 and M1905 that Argentina adopted, and the strut-locked "M1903" pistol, holster-stocked carbine-pistol and carbine, from the 1902 German description of it — history, mechanism, identification, disassembly, the two cartridges, the market and the law, and how one could be built. Live
Live Mauser C96 Broomhandle The real-firearm reference — 9×19 build target, also the canonical C96 donor for prop builds. Live
Live Mauser HSc Mauser’s streamlined double-action pocket pistol, its answer to Walther’s PP: Alex Seidel’s patents and what the shape is actually for, how it works and how to keep one working, the wartime contracts and serial blocks, the French, Interarms and Italian guns that followed, how to tell them apart, and what one is worth. Live
Live MBAssociates Gyrojet The rocket-firing pistols and carbines MBAssociates built in San Ramon from 1962: the company and its Finjets, the Microjet rocket and what it really did downrange, the hammer that drives the round backwards onto a fixed pin, the die-cast look, every variant with comparison plates, ATF's serial ranges, Vietnam and James Bond, and the upkeep of a zinc-framed gun whose ammunition cannot be replaced. Live
Live North American Arms Mini-Revolver The six-ounce, five-shot .22 WMR single action from Provo, documented around an owned NAA-22MS-P: its tangled Casull/Freedom Arms origin, the safety-slot mechanism and what NAA lets an owner touch, measured ballistics from a one-inch barrel, and carrying it under Michigan law. Live
Live Protector Palm Pistol Turbiaux's 1883 squeeze-fired palm pistol — a radial turret magazine in a disc you hide in your fist. Live
Live Remington XP-100 The bolt-action pistol Remington built around a cartridge designed for it, told through the record rather than the folklore: ten factory chamberings with the years Remington itself gives, ballistics computed as a pistol instead of borrowed from rifle barrels, and what the single-shot and the XP-100R repeater are each actually for. Live
Live Ruby Pistol Gabilondo's 1914 Ruby and the dozens of Eibar firms that made Ruby-type .32s for the French Army in 1915–1918: the contracts and every total with what stands behind it, the other armies and the post-war trade, how it works, identifying a maker by legend and French code, care and repair, the 7.65 mm Browning and the magazine problem, the law, and a from-scratch build. Live
Live Ruger Mark III & Mark IV The Ruger .22 automatic from Bill Ruger's 1946 patent through the Mark IV, told from Ruger's own manuals, spec sheets, recall notice and SEC filings: the mechanism, takedown, magazines, maintenance and repair, and the Mark III Target and Mark IV documented here. Live
Live SIG P320-M17 The commercial M17 and the Army programme behind it, the fire control unit that federal regulation names as the firearm, the drop-safety and litigation record told from the documents, and one pistol rebuilt part by part in a Flux Raider X chassis. Live
Live Springfield Armory XD(M) .40 The Croatian-designed, Springfield-sold XD(M) told from the maker's own manual and catalogue — the HS2000 lineage, a grip safety that also locks the slide, the .40 S&W's rise and the FBI memo that ended it — with the trigger kit, tritium sights and weapon light fitted to one .40 examined against their makers' own statements. Live
Live Smith & Wesson Model 41 The .22 target pistol Smith & Wesson made for American bullseye shooting from 1957 to 2025, told from the maker's own manuals and 1957 patents rather than the retellings: every production change with the source for its date, how to date a gun from its markings, a mechanism whose sights never move, and an accuracy reputation measured against the target it was built for. Live
Live Smith & Wesson M&P Shield The pistol that made the slim striker-fired nine the default carry gun, read from Smith & Wesson's own manuals, patents and parts listings: five pistols under one name, how to tell them apart, what the maker says about magazines, and a DeltaPoint Micro in the rear-sight dovetail. Live
Live Whitney Wolverine Robert Hillberg's 1956 aluminium-framed .22 — the ‘space age’ pistol — from the aircraft-armament career behind it and the contract that sank it, through the mechanism, serials, finishes and upkeep, to the Olympic Arms polymer reissue and its collecting and pop-culture life. Live