2014 - Forgotten Weapons

Slow Motion: Frommer Stop

August 14, 2014 Ian McCollum 35

This week’s slow motion gun is the Frommer Stop, put into production in 1912. The Hungarian designer Rudolf Frommer was responsible for a series of long-recoil pistols, of which the Stop was the last and […]

Enfield 1899 Maxim Photos

August 13, 2014 Ian McCollum 4

Here’s another set of Maxim photos, this time of an 1899 pattern gun made at Enfield. Photos courtesy of the UK MoD.

MG-30

August 12, 2014 Ian McCollum 51

by Tom Laemlein Lost in the shuffle of Germany’s automatic weapons of the World War II era is the Louis Stange-designed MG 30. Rejected by the Reichswehr, the MG 30 ended up in licensed production […]

Mauser 1912/14 Automatic Pistol (Video)

August 11, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

The Mauser 1912/14 automatic pistol was the final stage of a dead-end development track for a military sidearm in 9mm Parabellum made by Mauser. The program began as a plain blowback pistol in 1909, which […]

Vintage Saturday: Salvage

August 9, 2014 Ian McCollum 13

Finnish troops salvaging Maxim guns from a downed Russian Polikarpov R5 bomber shot down near Suistamo, Finland.

Slow Motion: Colt All American 2000

August 7, 2014 Ian McCollum 57

The All-American 2000 was Colt’s attempt to compete with Glock for the military and police service pistol market. It had a polymer frame (except a few early ones with aluminum frames), a double-action-only striker firing […]

Quad MG81 Anti-Aircraft Mount

August 6, 2014 Ian McCollum 24

by Tom Laemlein As World War II progressed, the Luftwaffe looked to increase firepower wherever possible, from deploying large-caliber air weapons or increasing the rate of fire with smaller, rifle-caliber weapons. Such is the case […]

Beardmore-Farquhar Photos

August 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defense, we have a bunch of photos of a 1920 model Beardmore-Farquhar light machine gun:

Type 11 Nambu LMG Disassembly (Video)

August 4, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

Thanks to the hospitality of the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, we had a chance to examine and disassemble a Japanese Type 11 light machine gun. This is, of course, the very unusual hopper-fed […]

Vintage Saturday: Resupply

August 2, 2014 Ian McCollum 42

Mark (a dog ammunition carrier) delivers ammo to a Bren gun team, Eastern Command 20 August 1941.