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Paging hand cannons, paging hand cannons

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Recently I’ve been fooling about with some rarely-encountered but nonetheless very cool guns:

The Auto Mag .44AMP of Mack Bolan fame… 

…and a Wildey gas-operated .45 Win Mag of Charles Bronson vintage 

Both are aristocratic hand cannons from a different era. We call it the 1970s and 80s.

With that in mind, I’ll be in Las Vegas for SHOT Show all week, so stay tuned for updates on cool guy stuff.

The MRI BFR Hand Cannon

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You hear words like enormous, huge, immense, monstrous, mammoth, and colossal, but they are just words until you have a Magnum Research BFR revolver in your hands.  This .45-70 buffalo gun-sized revolver is so big it looks like a prop in a science fiction movie (it was featured in the flick Looper), but it also has the niche following only a serious lead-slinger can command.

Read the rest in my column at GUNS.com

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