Military Surplus Magazine

Compared to most U.S. infantry weapons of World War II, the M3 submachine gun is not especially well known. This...

One of history’s great ironies is that the fledgling state of Israel, predominantly made up of pre-war Zionists and Jewish...

Years ago, I’d seen Japanese battle rifles at gun shows and in the closet of my good friend Dexter Thunder,...

A descendant of the .38 Hand Ejector Military & Police Model of 1899, Smith & Wesson’s first swing-out-cylinder revolver to...

The 1920s and 1930s represented a seminal period in American history. The nation was clawing its way out of the...

Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. This adage is true in the military, especially during wartime. Soldiers...

World War I was the first conflict in which modern weapons were used in significant numbers by several armies. The...

Weapons manufacturing is high art in the Information Age. Advances in automation and computer-controlled machinery sees produced in breathtaking quantities...

In the years before World War II, the Germans developed and produced some impressive war implements. One of these was...

Generally, I don’t think of Russian weapons as being elegant, but for some reason, the PPSh-41 has always struck me...