Introduction In March 2023, the product launch team at Biofire Technologies Inc. approached me with the opportunity to design and build a special LEGO replica of their new Smart Gun being publicly revealed on April 13. For this official paid partnership, I was given...
Introduction Designed in the 1890s as an improvement of the Borchardt C-93 pistol, Georg Luger’s ‘Pistole Parabellum’ was adopted by the German Army in 1908 and is widely known as the Luger P08. The gun saw widespread service in both World Wars, and...
Introduction The M1 Garand, officially designated “United States M1 Rifle, .30 caliber”, was adopted in 1936 and served as the first standard-issue, self-loading (semi-automatic) rifle of the USA, and indeed, of any major army in history. General Patton...
Introduction In 1981, the inventor Gaston Glock filed his 17th patent, and so the “Glock 17” polymer-framed, striker-fired pistol was born. Designed for the Austrian armed forces and police, the handgun became a worldwide success within just a few years...
Introduction The classic ‘Tommy Gun’ or ‘Chicago Typewriter’ was too expensive a weapon (in its M1921, M1928A1, and even M1 variants) for wartime production, so the US military commissioned Auto Ordnance to simplify it further. The resulting...
View M1917 Instructions When the US Military began running out of M1911 pistols during World War I, they began producing a revolver substitute in 1917 as part of a contract with both Smith & Wesson and Colt. Chambered in 0.45 caliber like the 1911, the...
