The Affinity 3 was the second Franchi auto-loader I ever shot. At least a decade prior, I had put my hands on the AL 48, a square-backed repeater with an operating system based on John Browning’s long ...

While not as famous as Beretta or perhaps some of the modern Italian companies such as Benelli, Luigi Franchi S.p.A. has been producing firearms for almost as long as Italy has been a country. The ...

For the last 10 days of my upland season, I shot pheasants with a new Browning Citori 825. Based on my experience with that gun, and on the three days I spent in Alberta warding off swarms of ducks ...