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The History Of Guns And Guns Of War And The Interesting Stories Behind Them Many people tend to idolize people who can run like a gazelle, smack horsehide with wooden sticks with predictable regularity or catch an inflated pigskin one-handed while under threat of bodily annihilation. But how many of those modern-day heroes could earn the Panzerknacker Mark? Learn more about these men of iron, their tactics and their weapons in “The Panzerknackers: Men Against Tanks” in this issue. Ever wondered who first fired a gun from an airplane? Discover who and when inside. Sit back and enjoy this special edition of Surplus Military & Classic Firearms. From black-powder trapdoor carbines to Europe’s 1911 to the weapons of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., this giant issue has the guns, and their stories, covered. The M1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle — The Manliest Weapon for the Manliest Generation Fire & Brimstone —.50-70 &.45-70 Trapdoor Black Powder Handloads Full-Auto Lightweight Legacy — M2.30 Carbine The Panzerknackers: Men Against Tanks — Up Close and Personal Armor Destruction Stamped Steel Showdown — The MP40 versus the M3A1 Grease Gun Slap Leather — Holsters for the M1911 Pistol Russia’s 1911 — Exploring the Tokarev Bang For The Buck — Zastava’s M70 Baby Tokarev The Seminal Modern Bolt Action And Its Bloody Warning — M93 Spanish Mauser Groovy Gun, Baby! — The Man from U.N.C.L.E. P38 Lead For Surplus Legends — Cast Bullets For Military Bolt-Action Rifles Deadly Woodpecker — The Japanese Heavy Machine Gun Type 92 Experience World War I — The Great War Association Reenactments The Gun That Saved An Empire — The Sten Submachine Gun A Bolt-Action Workhorse — The U.S. Models 1903A3 & 1903A4 Airborne Armament — Early U.S. Aircraft Weapons First And Last And Always Nine — Beretta’s 951 9mm Tiny, Adorable, Deadly — The Czech Vz. 61 Skorpion Mounted Firepower — Horse-S