While the Coinage Act of 1792 established the US Mint and the American system of coinage, it took years for the Mint to really get started in creating money. With…
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The idea of a shotgun in the United States has become almost synonymous with the 12-gauge shotshell. Sure, the 10-gauge may be bigger and the 20-gauge may be lighter, but…
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If you’re like most people, you’ve probably never heard of the Latin Monetary Union (LMU). The LMU was a monetary union established in the 19th century to unite the currencies…
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For over a hundred years, the biggest debate among handgun shooters has been: 9mm or .45? American soldiers were issued revolvers in various .45-caliber cartrdiges such as .45 Colt from…
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The Liberty Head series of gold coins was long in the tooth by the end of the 19th century. All major American circulating coinage, in fact, had retained the same…
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Another day, another loss of freedom. This time it came in Europe, as Swiss voters voted in a referendum to uphold firearms restrictions enacted by the country’s parliament. The referendum,…
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The history of cartridge development is littered with ideas that came out with a bang but never really caught on. Niche cartridges have been developed throughout history claiming to be…
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One of the many problems with governments getting involved in setting monetary policy is that the conduct of monetary policy necessarily picks winners and losers. Due to the distributional effects…
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By the 1880s many people had become fed up with the designs of American coinage. Both silver and gold coins had had the same designs since the 1830s, with the…
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Since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Iron Curtain, the United States has been flooded with a huge amount of military surplus hardware from Eastern…
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While the $20 double eagle gold coins have long gained attention from collectors and investors, the less-appreciated $10 eagle coin was for decades the standard gold coin intended for circulation.…
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The 9mm Luger cartridge, aka 9x19mm Parabellum or 9x19mm NATO, has become perhaps the most popular firearms cartridge in the world. Originally introduced in 1902 by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken…
