John browning

Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men in an attack on the Harpers Ferry armory. The raid to seize the weapons failed and Brown was captured, tried, and hung. At his trial, Brown said: “Now,…

Adam Gopnik on the radical nineteenth-century abolitionist John Brown’s centrality to the Civil War.

This is an excellent example of the early postwar Danish M1946 military contract High Power pistol manufactured by the FN factory in Herstal, Belgium, one of approximately 1,700 such pistols produced. This pistol is basically the same as the pre-war pistols but lack the tangent sight and slotted backstrap. Documented serial numbers have been observed from 0123 to 1244