The Smart Way to Buy Guns Online
The most famous military snipers in history, from Simo Häyhä and Vasily Zaitsev to Chris Kyle, Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Carlos Hathcock: the rifles they carried, their credited kills, and the longest confirmed shots.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was credited with 309 kills with a scoped Mosin-Nagant, was photographed with an SVT-40 at Sevastopol, and was given a Colt pistol and a Winchester Model 70 on her 1942 tour. What’s documented, what’s debated, and what the guns cost now.
Chris Kyle carried a Mk 11, a Mk 12, a .300 Win Mag Remington 700 and .338 Lapua rifles in Iraq, plus a Springfield TRP 1911 he bought himself. What the record supports, what’s disputed, and what the civilian guns cost now.
Every gun in Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, identified: the Beretta 92FS Bryan never reloads, the hammer double off the mantel, the MP5A3 from the Umbrella car and Maxine’s Laugo Alien.
Every gun in Netflix’s The Rip, identified frame by frame: Damon’s Troy M7A1 and Gen 5 Glock, Affleck’s inherited SIG P228, and the TEC-9 that was really in the 2016 Miami-Dade raid.
Wyatt Earp carried a Smith & Wesson at the O.K. Corral, killed Curly Bill with a borrowed shotgun, and never owned a Buntline Special. What he really carried, the disputed $225,000 Colt, and what the guns cost now.
The Justice Department sued Minnesota, Minneapolis and St. Paul over the 30-day wait to buy a handgun or regulated rifle, and permit delays it says reach nearly 60 days.
Billy the Kid carried a Colt and a Winchester 1873, killed a deputy with his own shotgun, and died by the $6 million Colt. Every gun, what it sold for, the backwards tintype, and what the guns cost new.
The gangster Machine Gun Kelly got his Thompson and his nickname from his wife, and may never have shot anyone. The gun, the Urschel kidnapping, the G-Men legend, and why the singer MGK shares his name.