Hammer-Fired vs. Striker-Fired Guns

AR-15 History & Top Brands

The iconic all-American firearms design of the past 60 years, the AR-15 [https://www.guns.com/firearms/ar-15-rifles], is almost universal in its popularity. Which brands do it justice is perhaps a spicier topic. On this week's 2nd Best Gun Podcast, Alexander and Chris sit down to weigh in on the subject.  You can skip ahead at the timestamps below.  01:20 Pepperidge Farm remembers... 04:04 Eger is still wandering around in gun lore. 09:40 Alex breaks out "the voice." 12:25 The genie gets out of the Colt bottle.  15:40 Unchained after the AWB expired.  16:50 Is KeyMod retro cool now? 17:45 Pour one out for the Poverty Pony. 25:30 The AR keeps getting reinvented.  27:40 Often imitated, seldom replaced. 29:20 Don't sleep on M-400s and 516s. 30:30 Getting Radical.  31:40 Do piston guns and blowback actions count as real ARs? 33:50 The Space Coast connection.  36:45 Is $800 the dividing line on an AR today? 37:50 Tactical peanut butter and jelly.  38:50 Police trade in patrol rifles are a gold mine.  40:00 They start reading social media comments, and it just goes off the rails for like 10 minutes.

Talking Beretta 92 with Broxton Carlile, Beretta's 92 Product Manager

The classic Beretta 92 [https://www.guns.com/beretta/beretta-92] is a subject we could spend a lot of time on, but today we're sharing a behind-the-scenes perspective from Beretta's 92 product manager, Broxton Carlile. From working as a designer on the 90 series to managing the product line today, Broxton has a wealth of knowledge about the iconic handgun and all its variants.

War Movie Guns

Gun guys like gun movies, and some of the best of those are war movies. Alexander and Chris sit down on this episode of the 2nd Best Gun Podcast to talk about a few of their all-time favorites. These films hold some great military classic [https://www.guns.com/firearms/military-classics-historical-firearms] firearms. You can skip ahead to the timestamps below.  01:40 Speaking as a .50 cal enjoyer... 03:25 Of twin AN/M2 mounts on the Dauntless dive bomber 05:01 Water-cooled, baby. 08:56 The Martini-Henry, shaken, not stirred. 10:01 How many war movies has Michael Caine been in anyway? 13:40 Mad Max from a submarine. (With soup can Grease Guns).  17:40 Putting the Digger back into Diggers.  21:15 The guys read some spicy comments.  29:45 War Daddy's .45 revolver.  32:10 Benghazi.  36:00 Can we give a slow clap to Capt. Dale Dye? 46:20 Eger's pick for the best war movie was made in Yugoslavia.  52:01 The two biggest WWII movies.  53:50 Rifle grenades need to make a comeback.  55:20 Alec Guinness lookalike in Mogadishu

EAA Guns Featuring Chase Duffey

The folks at European American Armory [https://www.guns.com/eaa] have been bringing great guns to the masses for over 35 years, and in this episode, the guys sit down with Chase Duffey to talk shop. While you may not know EAA directly, you do know their carefully curated selection of imports such as the Windicator, Witness2311 series, Girsan Regard MC, and P35.  Some time stamps, should you want to skip ahead: 01:10 Meet Chase 02:10 The thought behind the EAA MC P35 Hi-Power clones 06:15 "We can smell the borscht from here." 07:25 Upsetting the fudds.  10:10 It's in the grain, big dog.  11:50 Innovating the double-stack 1911 space, without the cost. (The Turkkato) 15:10 If you like the Match X, the CMXX is your thing.  20:15 Youth .410 and CMXXX are new for this year.  23:01 Quiet all the things.  29:19 Do not sleep on the EAA Windicator revolver, straight from Bavaria.  34:10 The very real difference between cheap and affordable.   36:05 I love gooold...

Guns and Action Movies

You can't be a gun guy and not be into gun movies, so on this episode of the podcast [https://www.guns.com/news/category/podcast], Alexander and Chris give a rundown on some of their favorites. The connection between iconic movies and the guns that appear in them is crucial. After all, what is James Bond without his Walther PPK [https://www.guns.com/news/2024/03/21/walther-pp-ppk-pistol-history] or John McClane sans Beretta? Word of warning: they also include a few series in there as well. Some timestamps if you would like to skip ahead: 00:50 The best Christmas movie rver made. 02:22 Eger got his back guy to X-ray his Glock. 04:10 Cold War resistance documentary ala John Milius 06:30 Alright, alright, alright.  07:40 Can we just give it up to Michael Mann movies? 09:00 Leave it to Eger to extol on paintings in a pod about movies.  10:50 Of Murtaugh and Riggs.  13:20 Alex is a book-on-VHS kinda guy.  16:10 Parker and Longabaugh in the 21st Century 20:10 Enough with the AA-12s already, you won, now give us! 22:40 Circling back to Michael Mann.  29:10 TIA builds.   30:50 If Don Johnson ate Don Johnson. 37:01 James Reece.  40:10 Best loadout scene ever. 43:29 They see me rollin.  43:59 Detroit's finest, via Beverly Hills 46:50 This is family programming, guys.  50:45 They read mean comments and chortle.  Join us every Thursday for new episodes here on the site, or check us out on Spreaker, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and, of course, Rumble, among other dark corners of the pod-o-cast web.