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Year: 2016

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RIA: Greener’s Humane Horse Killer

February 5, 2016 Ian McCollum 23
Humans have been killing animals for thousands of years, and with the development of the self-contained cartridge, the Greener company started making a compact and efficient Humane Horse Killer. Used by veterinarians for euthanizing creatures […]
Submachine Guns

RIA: MP3008 Sten Copy

February 4, 2016 Ian McCollum 71
The MP 3008, aka Gerät Neumünster, was one of two German efforts to copy the British Sten gun. The first was the Gerät Potsdam (“gerät” meaning device or project; basically project code name), which was […]
Conversion

Smoothbore Spencer: Tracing a Mystery Gun

February 3, 2016 Ian McCollum 21
Today’s firearm is not a normal gun; it is a conversion of a Spencer into a shotgun. My question is, what path did this weapon travel? What did it begin as, and how did it […]
Lever Action Rifles

RIA: Russian Winchester 1895 in 7.62x54R

February 2, 2016 Ian McCollum 64
The Winchester 1895 was the last of Winchester’s lever-action rifles, and has an interesting place in a couple different parts of world history. On the one hand, the 1895 in .405 Winchester caliber is known […]
Semiauto pistol

RIA: Norwegian M1914 Kongsberg Colt (Video)

February 1, 2016 Ian McCollum 36
After a series of pistol trials, Norway adopted a copy of the Colt 1911 in .45 ACP as its standard service pistol in 1914. A license was purchased from FN (while under German occupation, interestingly) […]
Semiauto pistol

Le Français .32ACP Pistol (Video)

January 31, 2016 Ian McCollum 88
The Le Français was a staple of Manufrance production, being first designed in 1912 and produced until the late 1960s. This example is in .32ACP caliber, which was only made for the commercial market in […]
Single Shot Rifles

RIA: Imperial Gewehr 71 (Video)

January 30, 2016 Ian McCollum 33
The Gewehr 1871 was the first rifle adopted by the newly-formed German state after its unification at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. It replaced the decades-old Dreyse needle rifles, and fired an 11x60mm black […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Prototype Italian MBT 1925 Straight-Pull Rifle (Video)

January 28, 2016 Ian McCollum 34
Note: This video was filmed over a year ago, but I have been holding it in anticipation of the rifle going to auction. That doesn’t seem to be happening, so I’m posting the video now. […]
Vietnamese Luger lookalike
Gunsmithing

Viet Cong Handmade Luger Lookalike

January 27, 2016 Ian McCollum 51
In the continuing occasional series on crude handmade firearms, we have an entry sent to me by a reader on Facebook (thanks!). It’s a Vietnamese Luger lookalike, which was being sold by Arundel Militaria in […]
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Stopping Tanks with Rifles?

January 26, 2016 Ian McCollum 44
Picture the year 1939 – lots of light tanks are out there in various armies, but there isn’t much practical experience on how to stop them in combat. The heavy anti-tank rifles pioneered at the […]

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