Key point: These weapons make a good investment as well as a favorite choice for self-defense. There are many reasons to own a surplus military rifle: they’re usually inexpensive, rugged, accurate, ...

THE WORST WAY to learn about corrosive ammo is to shoot some in your rifle and then let the gun sit for a few weeks. In my case, it was surplus 8mm machine-gun ammo that I’d shot through my ...

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is sold out of surplus 1911 .45 caliber pistols for this year, but the nonprofit still has M1 rifles to sell. The U.S. Army allowed 8,000 1911s to be transferred to ...

“Mauser” and “Mosin Nagant” are practically synonymous among collectors and firearms enthusiasts for Germany’s and Russia’s respective rifles of the two world wars. But the devil is truly in the ...