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Home2018October

Month: October 2018

Select-fire Rifles

H&R’s Experimental M14 Guerrilla Gun

October 12, 2018 Ian McCollum 30

This M14 is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. While Harrington & Richardson was making M14 rifles for the United States military, they were also experimenting with other variations on the design. Among […]

Submachine Guns

World War Two Heats Up: The M1928A1 Thompson SMG

October 11, 2018 Ian McCollum 10

These two 1928A1 Thompsons (Savage manufacture and Auto-Ordnance manufacture) are being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. By 1939, Auto-Ordnance was thoroughly bankrupt, having about $400 in assets and a debt of more than […]

Rocket launcher

Panzerschreck: Germany Makes a Bazooka

October 10, 2018 Ian McCollum 29

This Panzerschreck is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. The German military first encountered American Bazookas in Tunisia in 1943, and quickly put in place a program to copy and improve on the […]

Submachine Guns

The Marines’ First SMG: 1921/28 Thompson Gun

October 9, 2018 Ian McCollum 28

This Thompson is being sold at Morphys on October 30, 2018. The USMC had acquired a few hundred early 1921 model Thompson submachine guns in 1926, and prompted the US Navy to formally test the […]

Flare gun

British Cabin Pressure Flare Pistols (Quite Unusual)

October 8, 2018 Ian McCollum 8

These two flare pistols (Mark 2 and Mark 1) are being sold by Morphys on October 31, 2018. Signal flares were an important communications tool for aircraft during World War Two, and a multitude of […]

Bolt Action Rifles

Szescei & Fuchs Double Barrel Bolt Action Dangerous Game Rifle

October 7, 2018 Ian McCollum 29

This rifle is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. Normally in big game rifles, one has the choice of either a double barrel or a bolt action (semi autos being generally eschewed as […]

Submachine Guns

Thompson 1921: The Original Chicago Typewriter

October 6, 2018 Ian McCollum 31

This Thompson is being sold at Morphys on October 30. The first prototype Thompsons submachine guns (and it was Thompson who coined that term, by the way) were produced in 1919 and dubbed the “Annihilators”. […]

Light MGs

Full-Auto FG-42: An Original 2nd Pattern at the Range

October 5, 2018 Ian McCollum 35

This rifle is being sold by Morphys on October 30, 2018. The FG-42 is a tremendously hyped rifle, but very few people have ever had a chance to actually shoot an original one (including me, […]

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Q&A #22: Travel and More

October 4, 2018 Ian McCollum 28

Whew – this was a long one! As usual, I had far more questions submitted by you awesome Patrons than I could answer, so if yours didn’t get in this time please submit it again […]

Semiauto pistol

Varan PMX90: Ambidexterity in South Africa

October 3, 2018 Ian McCollum 11

The Varan pistol was developed by two Rhodesian designers, Tony Blackshaw and Stewart Beecham, and was originally designated the PMX-80. Development would take nearly a full decade, however, and mostly took place in South Africa. […]

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