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Gun Stories (2011) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Gun Stories online in HD.

Gun Stories — Storyline

This documentary series takes viewers through a firearm's history, from the heart of the design through its use on the range. Using state-of-the-art, high-speed photography, Gun Stories looks at the operation and performance of each weapon, from classics like the Mauser bolt-action, to cutting-edge firearms like the Adaptive Combat Rifle.

Cast & Crew

Gun Stories — Series Details

Gun Stories — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Model 1911 (2011-06-29) — We’re taking a look back at the rich history of John Browning’s model 1911. We have a big line up of gun experts for Gun Stories. In this episode, we are featuring Alex Rose, Ken H
• E2: Mauser Bolt Action (2011-07-06) — When smokeless powder were introduced in the late 19th century, we experienced a new era in the manufacturing of firearms. Paul Mauser’s bolt action design has been copied ever sin
• E3: 1873 Single Action Revolver (2011-07-13) — Samuel Colt and his invention of the revolver changed the world. The ability to fire five or six rounds without reloading made a huge difference in the history of firearms. Sam Col
• E4: 1894 Lever Action Rifle (2011-07-20) — The Winchester Model 94 are written in large letters across American history. This rifle redefines the meaning of success. Gun experts you’ll meet in this episode: Alex Rose, Gene
• E5: Browning Automatic Rifle (2011-07-27) — Faced with trench warfare, WWI troops needed a portable weapon with enough firepower to change to course of a battle. John Browning stepped up and came up with what was then the pe
• E6: Top Break Revolver (2011-08-03) — How did the perfect revolver for its time end up in second place? We look at the Smith & Wesson Top Break, a classic American revolver used by Frank and Jesse James, Annie Oakley,
• E7: The M16 Rifle (2011-08-10) — It is arguably the most recognized firearm in the world, and the longest serving US infantry rifle ever fielded. It has been copied by numerous countries, and its civilian counterp
• E8: The Glock (2011-08-17) — In the early 1980s, Gaston Glock, who knew nothing about firearms but was an expert in advanced synthetic polymers, assembled a huge group of experts to help him create the ideal m
• E9: The FN FAL (2011-08-24) — There are many images that come to mind when you mention the Cold War. Nuclear arms race, The Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall… East and West, divided. For many, it is the image of th
• E10: The Beretta 92 (2011-08-31) — How does the oldest family owned corporation in the world teach itself new tricks? If the name is “Beretta,” founded in 1526, about the time Pope Clement VII was creating the Inqui
• E11: The Barrett 82A1 (2011-09-11) — How many times in history has one man’s vision changed the course of warfare? As short as that list may be, there is no more unlikely story than Ronnie Barrett…a photographer, with
• E12: The Model 870 (2011-11-06) — It can be said that the first shotguns — simple iron tubes filled with gunpowder, rocks and pieces of scrap iron — used on a 15th Century battlefield in northern Italy put an end t
• E13: Guns of the Season (2011-11-13) — Over this first season of Gun Stories, we’ve covered the history, design and even the future of twelve firearms that have been influential not just in gun design, but society itsel

Season 2

• E1: Model 29 (2012-06-27) — Gunsite Academy’s Cory Trapp is the armorer on Gun Stories and you have seen him in all the high speed videography scenes in season 1. Cory is back for season 2 and this time, you
• E2: M-1 Garand (2012-07-04) — General George S. Patton declared the M1 Garand the greatest battle implement ever devised. Canadian inventor John Garand’s semi auto rifle with its 8 round end block clip provided
• E3: Classic American Doubles (2012-07-11) — What was the gun that won the west? Was it the Winchester 73, the Colt Single Action Army or the Springfield Trapdoor? No, it was the one gun that any person could hunt with and us
• E4: The Thompson Sub Machine Gun (2012-07-18) — Once in a blue moon, a machine becomes more than the sum of its parts. It is even more rare when that machine is a tool of war. in 1919, John Taliaferro Thompson, a career army off
• E5: The Luger (2012-07-24) — The Pistole Parabellum 1908 or more simply the Luger, is as emblematic of the German empire as the slab sided 1911 is of America. Although it was not the first semi automatic pisto
• E6: The Browning 1919 (2012-07-31) — As World War I began, the American dough boys needed a new machine gun. John Browning responded with his water cooled model 1917. When the war ended, Browning made a few changes to
• E7: The Ruger 10/22 (2012-08-08) — When we think of those things that are quintessential American, certainly apple pie comes to mind. Not far behind that delicious vision is a different image – one of long summer af
• E8: The AK-47 (2012-08-14) — It’s been said that the history of weapons is indeed the history of the world. Maybe a bit of an overstatement, but certainly true in the case of the Avtomat Kalashnikova 1947, the
• E9: The Rolling Block (2012-08-22) — If ever a firearms could be said to have a inferiority complex, it would be the Remington Rolling Block rifle. Perhaps the most common rifle used by pioneers in America’s westward
• E10: The Modern 1911 (2012-08-28) — Gunsite Academy’s Cory Trapp and Michael Bane talk about the Modern 1911 featured in episode #10 of Gun Stories season 2 on Outdoor Channel.
• E11: Best of Season 2 – Part 1 (2012-09-04)
• E12: Best of the Year Part 2 (2012-09-11)
• E13: Best of the Year Part 3 (2012-09-12)
• E14: One on One with Colonel Cooper (2012-09-11) — (Online) – When we talk about the modern 1911, we see the tremendous influence of Colonel Jeff Cooper. Unedited interview with Colonel Cooper from early 2006. In part 1, he talks a

Season 3

• E1: The Uzi (2013-07-03) — His friends called him Uzi, but Major Uziel Gal never wanted that name attached to the firearm he designed. The Israelis simply ignored his request and the Uzi submachine gun, one
• E2: Ruger Redhawk (2013-07-10) — In America, some times bigger really is better. At least it seems that way when dealing with handguns. And they don’t come any bigger than the Ruger Redhawk and its Super Redhawk b
• E3: The Winchester 1873 (2013-07-17) — A Winchester 1873 rifle was ubiquitous during America’s westward expansion. Whether in the hands of Buffalo Bill Cody,The Texas Rangers or Billy the Kid, it left an indelible mark
• E4: The Maxim/Vickers (2013-07-24) — The Vickers machine gun was based on the successful Maxim gun of the late 19th century. After purchasing the Maxim company in 1896, Vickers took the design of the Maxim gun and imp
• E5: The M-1 Carbine (2013-07-31) — Perhaps not surprisingly, few firearms have been designed by murderers serving prison sentences. Of those few, fewer still are adopted by the U.S. Military as a major war fighting
• E6: The Deringer (2013-08-07) — The year was 1825 and the man who made his name with fine dueling pistols and superb sporting rifles, was getting ready to see his name become a household word. Philadelphia gun ma
• E7: The Mosin Nagant (2013-08-14) — Some times the ugly duckling wins. Who would have thought that the homely Mosin-Nagant bolt action rifle would rise from its imperial roots in Russia and to become one of the succe
• E8: The MP 40 (2013-08-21) — Americans who faced its fury in WWII, called it the Schmeisser, nicknamed after a man who had nothing to do with its design. But the machines pistol designated MP38 and MP40, perfe
• E9: The Benelli M-4 (2013-08-28) — The shotgun may be man’s oldest firearm, but that doesn’t make it any less lethal for modern military applications. In fact, today’s battlefields has spawned a state of the art fig
• E10: The Pocket Pistol (2013-09-04) — We think of pocket pistols as a modern invention and part of our expanded concealed carry rights. But maybe the finest pocket pistol ever made dates all the way back to 1903. Not s
• E11: SIG 226 (2013-09-11) — Few handguns have ever achieved the status of the SIG Sauer 226 family. The SIGs are the issue pistols for the FBI, Navy SEALS, the British SAS, the Secret Service and literally hu
• E12: The AR-10 (2013-09-18) — The AR-15 has been one of the most successful military and now civilian rifle in the history. The hottest AR trends today is moving towards bigger calibers with 30 caliber variants
• E13: The Best of Season 3 (2013-09-25) — In this episode, we look at some of the highlights from the third season of Gun Stories. Hosted by actor and gun enthusiast Joe Mantegna, Gun Stories takes viewers through a firear

Season 4

• E1: Walther PPK (2014-07-02) — Some times fame comes calling from the oddest directions. For the Walther PPK, fame arrived in the form of a letter to the author Iain Fleming. Host Joe Mantegna and numerous exper
• E2: Browning Auto-5 (2014-07-09) — The Browning Auto-5 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic shotgun. It was designed by John Browning in 1898 and patented in 1900. It was produced continually for almost 100 ye
• E3: Lee Enfield (2014-07-16) — The Lee-Enfield bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle was the main firearm used by the military forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th
• E4: Bullpups (2014-07-23) — The Bullpup rifle design with the magazine and action behind the pistol grip seems like an excellent solution to the constant military demands of shorter and lighter. But after dec
• E5: Colt Python (2014-07-30) — Think of it as the Lamborghini of revolvers. The Colt Python in .357 Magnum with its sleek lines and credible finish, superb accuracy and flawless trigger pull , is described as th
• E6: The C96 Broomhandle Mauser (2014-08-06) — Think of it as a jigsaw puzzle that, when fully assembled, creates one of the most recognizable gun profiles of all time. The C-96 Mauser, as its more commonly known, the Broomhand
• E7: Roosevelt’s Africa Guns (2014-08-13) — Was there ever a more enthusiastic President than Theodore Roosevelt? Teddy Roosevelt lived life largely, a character perfectly suited to the Gilded Age of American History. Cowboy
• E8: Ruger Standard .22 Pistol (2014-08-20) — If there was ever a gun perfectly suited to its time, it’s the Ruger Standard .22 semiauto pistol, Bill Ruger’s enduring triumph of modern manufacturing, the relentless pursuit of
• E9: Sniper Rifles (2014-08-27) — The date was May 9, 1864, and Union General James Sedgwick had just admonished his troops in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House to stop flinching from Confederate fire almost 1
• E10: Guns of Little Big Horn – Part 1 (2014-09-03) — Host Joe Mantegna and numerous experts take a look at the firearms used by the Seventh Cavalry during the Battle of Little Big Horn. Was Custer’s last stand due to the choice of ar
• E11: Guns of Little Big Horn – Part 2 (2014-09-10) — For over a hundred years, experts and historians have claimed the Native Americans under Sitting Bull’s command had a superiority of firepower over George Custer’s Seventh Cavalry
• E12: English Double Rifles (2014-09-17) — In the mid-1800s, as the height of the British Empire, explorer Sir. Richard Francis Burton returned from Darkest Africa with amazing stories and a new word, safari, the Swahili wo
• E13: Browning M2 HB (2014-09-24) — Few firearms have had such a profound effect on warfare as John Browning’s massive .50 caliber M2 heavy machine gun, the most successful machine gun ever made. Affectionally called

Season 5

• E1: Colt Cap and Ball Revolvers (2015-07-01) — Sam Colt — genius, huckster, snake oil salesman and one of the inventors of the modern world. His revolving pistols changed firearms and warfare forever, and his percussion revolve
• E2: The Bren Gun (2015-07-08) — Maybe it was the movie DR. NO or THE LONGEST DAY, but what first catches your eye about the Bren Gun, the iconic British light machine gun of World War 2, is that it is upside down
• E3: The Remington Model 8 (2015-07-15) — Maybe the most famous gun advertisement in the world, “Do Or Die,” has a huge grizzly bearing down on a cowboy armed not with a lever action carbine, but a semiauto rifle; the Remi
• E4: The Gatling Gun (2015-07-22) — One of the most amazing things about the history of warfare is how many of the most fearsome weapons were created by men who felt their inventions would end war. Alfred Nobel and h
• E5: Guns of the Union (2015-07-29) — A little more than 150 years ago, the guns of the Union and Confederate forces finally fell silent after five years of what would be described by both sides as hell on earth. The C
• E6: Guns of the Confederacy (2015-08-05) — When Confederate canons opened fire on Ft. Sumter near Charleston, neither the North nor the South were prepared for war. Indeed, neither side understood the great bloodletting the
• E7: The History of the Suppressor (2015-08-12) — Imagine an inexpensive and well tested device than can make shooting any gun safer, reduce recoil by as much as a third and eliminate the single the biggest problem in all of shoot
• E8: Big Bore Revolvers (2015-08-26) — They buck and they roar and they twist in your hands like fire-breathing dragon. You can feel the recoil all the way up to your shoulders. Big bore handguns are probably the greate
• E9: The Sharps Rifle (2015-09-02) — There is something quintessentially American about the Sharps rifle, a direct line back to the Civil War and the opening of the West. More importantly, Christian Sharps’ invention
• E10: Ignition Systems Part 1 (2015-09-09) — As shooters and hunters, we’re very familiar with the modern centerfire cartridge. The cartridge seems to be a study in simplicity; a metallic case that holds the powder and the bu
• E11: Ignition Systems Part 2 (2015-09-16) — After the ingenuity of the matchlock and wheellock, the next steps in ignition systems seem to solve all of the short comings earlier designs faced. The flintlock and percussion ca
• E12: The History of Air Guns (2015-09-23) — “It’s always fun until someone puts out an eye”. If you say the word air gun, that’s probably the first thing to cross your mind. But air guns have always been tools more than toys

Season 6

• E1: The Guns of John Dillinger (2016-07-12) — While the bloody arc of John Dillinger's life is well known, less time has been spent on the convergence of two technologies that made Dillinger possible: cars and guns.
• E2: History of Armscor (2016-07-20) — Armscor/Rock Island Armory can trace its roots back to the early 1900s, beginning as Squires Bingham and Company, a clothing and sporting goods store in Republic of the Philippines
• E3: The M60 Machine Gun (2016-07-27) — The German World War 2 MG-42 stands as one of the greatest machine guns in history. The story of the American M-60 machine gun, affectionately or not, known as ""The Pig," begins t
• E4: The Israeli Galil (2016-08-03) — A country that is always at war either becomes an expert at weapons' design or it perishes. Israel is such a country, and their iconic Galil assault rifle is a classic example of a
• E5: The Savage Model 99 (2016-08-10) — Sometimes the future arrives slightly ahead of its time, and often, from an unexpected direction. With almost 100 years in production, the lever action Savage Model 99 is unequivoc
• E6: The Webley Revolver (2016-08-17) — The British Webley revolver occupies the same unique space in the world of guns that the English Bulldog does in the world of canines – squat, ugly to the point of beauty and lots
• E7: The Winchester Model 73 (2016-08-31) — The popularity and fame of the Winchester 73 is pretty self-evident. After all, how many firearms have had a major Hollywood movie with their name as the title?
• E8: Oddities and Curioso (2016-09-20) — Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars shows us some of his most unique acquisitions as Gun Stories looks at the strangest guns designed throughout history.
• E9: The MP5 (2016-10-05) — Possibly the greatest submachine gun ever manufactured, the MP5 has become essential to military and law enforcement personnel.
• E10: The Desert Eagle (2016-10-12) — The Desert Eagle is a handgun that can legitimately lay claim to being a movie star all by itself.
• E11: The Russian PKM (2016-10-19) — Not only did Mikhail Kalashnikov create what may be the perfect battlefield rifle, his design of the PKM has been in use since 1969 and sets the standard for others to follow.
• E12: Embellished Weapons (2016-10-26) — Artists work in a variety of mediums; canvas, stone, clay and yes, even firearms.
• E13: History of Swiss Rifles (2016-11-02) — The Swiss have always led the way with precision rifles, owing it to their citizen army. From the Schmidt-Rubin through the current 550 series of weapons, these rifles have demande

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Gun Stories have? 14 season(s) with 155 episodes.

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