Whether you’re an avid firearms collector, or just getting started, you’ve been bombarded with advertisements from auctions, firearms shows and galleries, all vying for your dollars. With so many buying options available to gun collectors, it’s important to know where to go to purchase high quality items for your collection. This article looks at proxibid, a live auction webcasting service.

Last year, South Korean military officials announced plans to sell off 86,000 surplus M1 Garand rifles and another 22,000 M1carbines. But will bureaucratic red tape from the U.S. side hamper these sales?

In the final installment of this series on the N-Frame Smith & Wesson revolver, the author takes a look at the .357 Highway Patrolman, .41 magnum, and other modern versions of the N-frame revolver.

There is little about the modern DA revolver that a firearms engineer from 1900 would find remarkable. And of all the revolvers developed during this time, none of them is more interesting than the heavy-caliber, large-frame wheelguns from the Springfield, Massachusetts, firm of Smith & Wesson.

The N-Frame Smith & Wesson revolver is available in configurations to suit just about every possible use. But at the end of the day, these big bore sixguns haven't changed that much since their introduction. That's true for one reason: They work. 

If it looks good, feels good, and kills birds dead, it qualifies as a Classy Double.

Nick Niles answers a reader question about Stevens double gun patent stamping found on various models. 

The White Plains Firearm and Knife Show returns to the Westchester County Center.

In this final part, Massad Ayoob wraps up is final thoughts on why the Model 27 will always remain a significant piece of firearms history.

In Part III of this excerpt from Massad Ayoob's Greatest Handguns of the World, the author looks at the accuracy and shootability of the Model 27 .357 Magnum.