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In the semi-automatic pistol category, and for more than a century now the Colt 1911 has probably been the most imitated, copied and cloned pistol of them all! Let’s say it’s to the handgun what ...

In 1967, the Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, Belgium, presented the “Carabine Automatique Légère” (Light Automatic Carbine) or CAL in caliber 5,56×45. Often wrongly presented as a derivative of the FAL, this weapon designed under the ...

As soon as it was adopted by the Gendarmerie and then by the French army, the Mod. 1873 revolver developed from the work of Chamelot and Delvigne met with great success. The military used it ...

When the “Exposition des Arts et de l’Industrie de 1965” was held in Toulouse, Mr. ROUZEGAS, a gunsmith working at the 4 place des Carmes exhibited (among other things) a pair shooting pistols with ebony ...

The XCR system (for Xtreme Combat Rifle) was developed by Alex Robinson in 2004 and released in 2006. The initial objective was to compete in the US Army’s SCAR project (Special operations Combat Assault Rifle). ...

When the French army received its new service revolvers at the end of 1892, civilian manufacturers were seriously hit. Indeed, the civilian versions of the 1887 model revolver that they had been broadcasting for two ...