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A rarely encountered belt buckle pistol has surfaced and is featured at Rock Island's June Regional Auction this month.

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“What they discovered is that on both ends of the rifle they were the same, the same working class guys,” author Stanley Weintraub said. “It was a very strange event. The circumstances were unique, it probably couldn’t have happened in another war.”

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Heckler & Koch’s majority shareholder loaned the company 60 million euros of his own money to get the arms maker back on track.

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John Ryle took the 9mm Luger from a dead German soldier responsible for killing his brother in arms. It was imported to the U.S. and the rest is history.

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On a cold New Year's Eve in Berlin, Germany, a group of guys decided to ring in the new year with a twist.

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The soldiers played soccer, or football as it's commonly called overseas, something which the soldiers were said to have done during the Christmas Truce in 1914.

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Staff Sgt. Walter Ehlers, the longest surviving WWII Medal of Honor recipient, died Thursday at 92. Ehlers and his brother, Roland, enlisted in the Army in 1940, though they both already had several battles under the belt. Ehlers’ actions during the second wave assault on Omaha Beach in Normandy in June 1944 earned him the […]

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While the soldiers have a remarkable ability to blend into their environment, the trick is to try to "spot the barrel of a gun." How many can you spot?

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With over 100 tools, including a .22-caliber revolver, this 19th century multi-tool really is the “mother of all Swiss Army knives.” Made in Germany in 1880 for JS Holler & Co’s cutlery store in New York City, this 3.5-inch wide and 9-inch long multi-tool was way ahead of its time, predating the Swiss Army knife […]

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“8,” by Acim Vasic, is a short film about two, solitary soldiers from opposing armies who meet by happenstance in a snowy forest. In a perilous game of cat and mouse, the two antithetical characters work to outwit each other, until they are outwitted by destiny itself. As they march through the woods, the British […]

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Many have said that guns and girls go together, but one master engraver took the concept to a whole new level when he etched a pornographic scene onto the frame of a revolver and carved an elephant ivory handle into an obviously overt phallus. But, if you’re looking for erotica and a .38-caliber Smith & […]

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In an existentially provocative project by several German film students, they explore the possibility of technology having morality. What would happen if a “smart” Mercedes equipped with Collision Prevention Assist tech travelled back in time and spotted Adolf Hitler? Well, it would register him as a threat and run him over, obviously. In the clip, […]

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