High Standard Collectors' Association Blog

  Sad news. Charlie Petty, author of High Standard Pistols 1932-1950 died last November.  He was a founding member of the HSCA and a contri...

Survival Pack with Papers In 1981, in an effort to stimulate sales apart of the target shooting market, High Standard began marketing the Su...

HSCA members     Greetings to you. My name is Ed, and I have been a member of HSCA for about 30 years. It is time I give up the safe queens....

 2022 Winter newsletters were mailed on 9 December. (Which is ahead of schedule) On the cover there are three High Standard marked R&D r...

  Alan Aronstein, OFM sales agent and consultant, sent message calling attention to an article in GUN MAG. The article states that Aronstein...

  Clarification of newsletter article   I wish to clarify some misinformation in the Summer issue of the High Standard Collectors' Newsl...

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 Link to American Rifleman article on the UD-42 The UD M’42 Submachine Gun: A Clandestine Tool For The OSS | An Official Journal Of The NRA ...

 HSCA Summer 2022 Newsletters Summer Newsletters were mailed on 29 August. If you are a paid-up HSCA  member and have not received that news...

STORY OF THE VICTOR by Jerry Watson   The Victor came about not from a design originated by the High Standard de...

Northwest Annual Regional Meeting of the High Standard Collectors Association   The meeting was held August 13 th and 14 th 2022, in c...

  Bob Coyle was a sales rep for High Standard in the mid 1970s. He has agreed to share some of his memories of that era. I started with ...

     Among many other things, Charlie Petty wrote a book about High Standard pistols. His book was titled High Standard Automatic Pistols 19...

  Jon Miller provided this correspondence  from Dick Baker emails in November 2019.  Dick Baker was employed by High Standard for many years...