The gunsmith has long held a revered place in American firearms lore. But the rise of the AR has ignited a fierce debate in gunsmithing circles, with some suggesting that artisanal skills are in ...

WEEDSPORT, N.Y. -- Dave Klotz said his father bought him his first gun when he was a young boy. “It was a model 12 Winchester (shotgun),” he said. “One time soon after he came home from work and I had ...

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(KL)GUNSMITH04-Don Stallman, age 53, from Trinidad, Colorado, makes a mandrel tool on a metal lathe in his first semester course as a gunsmithing student at Trinidad State Junior College in Trinidad, ...

A modern firearm is likely to be mass-produced using high-precision machine tools, and with a uniformity to the extent that parts from one can be interchanged with those from another. This marks a ...