Shoot and carry a piece of history—the iconic .45 ACP 1920s classic! The Complete Book of Autopistols 2011, page 28 ~ 33 By Jeremy D. Clough The TA5 pistol comes packaged in a rifle-length case, along with its 50-round drum mag, owner’s manual, cable lock, and a “third hand,” a simple yet useful device used to

THIS REVIVED GI-STYLE 1911PKZSE PISTOL PROVIDES MODERN SHOOTERS WITH A FRESH TAKE ON UNCLE SAM’S BATTLE-PROVEN, .45 ACP DESIGN! By ROBERT A. SADOWSKI Click here to see the full review…

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A (not so) Brief History of Auto-Ordnance Like a number of company names in the U.S. firearms industry, the Auto-Ordnance name has been around for a comparatively long time. Some of the names are simply old names bought up and slapped on new, recently-created companies. Others are old names whose companies essentially went belly up

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In the HBO® epic Band of Brothers, there is a brief “firearms oops” in the scene where Private Webster confronts a baker who is reluctant to supply bread from his shop to the starving prisoners of the liberated Nazi Concentration camp outside town. He stuffs his GI .45 into the baker’s face to gain cooperation, but

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In May 1921, Gen. John Taliaferro Thompson went on a sales tour of Europe, visiting Belgium, Britain, France and Spain to promote his innovative “submachine gun,” a term he coined for the fully automatic .45 ACP that arrived too late for service in World War I. He was invited to demonstrate the Model 1921 at