The Polish VIS Model 35, later designated the P35 (P) by the German occupiers, is a somewhat obscure World War II sidearm — but it’s also one of the nicest pistols of the era. Its story began in the ...

The Browning High Power story begins with a French 1921 request for a new military pistol. FN engineer Dieudonné Saive developed a double stack, single feed magazine and John Browning adapted a ...

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Germany produced some of the finest and most innovative small arms of the Second World War—from the MG-34 general purpose machine gun to the StG44, the world’s first assault rifle.

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