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Month: July 2012

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Book review

Books, Magazines, and David Tubb

July 31, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

If you were interested in Bin Shih’s very nice book on Chinese firearms of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) but didn’t get one before they sold out, you’re in luck! He’s going to be running […]

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Video

The Institute of Military Technology

July 30, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

We had the privilege of spending a couple days last week in Florida, attending the first of many seminars to be held by the Institute of Military Technology on firearms history and design. This particular […]

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Uncategorized

Vintage Saturday: Charge of the Light Brigade

July 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

Okay, this isn’t actually the light brigade, it’s a Swiss unit (this is still Swiss Week) from probably the 1930s. The rider in the foreground has a cavalry variant of the LMG25, with its unusual […]

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Submachine Guns

Swiss Week – Prototype Furrer 1919

July 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

We’ve mentioned that Adolf Furrer (director of Waffenfabrik Bern) began his career making Lugers and Maxims, which helps explain his obsession with toggle locks. Well, before he developed his own take on the mechanism for […]

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Book review

Book Review: Automatwaffen II

July 26, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

It’s a bit of a different book review today – since we’ve been looking at Swiss arms all week (and there’s a really unique one coming up tomorrow), we needed to find a book on […]

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Submachine Guns

Swiss Week – MP41/44

July 25, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

The line between genius and insanity is a thin one, right? Well, the Swiss LMG25 was well build and effective, but the MP41 and MP41/44 fell off the edge into silliness. It was adopted in […]

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Light MGs

Swiss Week – LMG25 Manuals and Photos

July 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

Continuing Swiss Week, we have more detailed information on the LMG25 light machine gun today. There design was officially adopted by the Swiss Army in 1925 (as you might have guessed) after about 7 years […]

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Light MGs

Swiss Week – LMG25 video

July 23, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

This week, we will be featuring all Swiss weapons here at Forgotten Weapons. Kind of like Shark Week, but more land-locked. We’ll kick off today with a video showing you around a Swiss LMG-25 light […]

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Vintage photo

Vintage Saturday: Motorized Type 38 Arisakas

July 21, 2012 Ian McCollum 11

If they all fire in the same direction simultaneously, that cart will exceed the maximum speed of a Type 89 medium tank. Okay, I’m exaggerating. A bit. (I know someone will chime in to defend […]

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Submachine Guns

Vesely V-42 Submachine Gun

July 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 12

The Vesely Machine Carbine (aka V-41, V-42, and V-43) was a submachine gun designed in Britain by a Czech refugee named Josek Vesely. In most respects, the Vesely was a typical subgun, firing 9mm Parabellem […]

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