2012 - Forgotten Weapons

Błyskawica: Poland’s First Successful SMG

August 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

We’re privileged today to have another guest article written by Leszek Erenfeicht (and I would strongly recommend that our Polish readers check out Strzal, the print magazine he regularly publishes in). This time he is […]

Book Review: The World’s Assault Rifles

August 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas Nelson’s The World’s Assault Rifles is always one of the first books we turn to for information on automatic rifles. At 1200+ pages, it’s a huge tome and a massive […]

Mystery Gun Identified: 1944 Hyde Carbine

August 1, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

We’ve had this particular gun listed as unidentified for quite a long time, and had people suggest pretty much everything you can imagine to explain its origins: Well, thanks to a private collector we visited, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]