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Month: December 2019

Single Shot Rifles

Terry’s Breechloading Carbine: Used by Hussars and Confederates

December 5, 2019 Ian McCollum 7

This capping breechloader was patented in the UK by William Terry in 1856, and adopted (in limited numbers) by the British military in 1860. Approved for cavalry use, it was issued to the 18th Hussars, […]

Miniature

Tippman’s Half-Scale .22 Rimfire Browning 1917 Machine Gun

December 4, 2019 Ian McCollum 10

In 1983, Dennis Tippman formed a company to manufacture half-scale functional replicas of Browning machine guns – the 1919 and 1917 specifically. He built these as both fully automatic and semiautomatic (the semiauto design being […]

Semiauto Rifles

Valkyrie Arms Semiauto M3A1 Grease Gun

December 3, 2019 Ian McCollum 6

Valkyrie Arms was formed in 1993 to produce semiautomatic copies of classic military machine guns, and in 2004 they introduced a semiauto M3A1 “Grease Gun”. The M3 and M3A1 are particularly rare guns as registered […]

Semiauto pistol

H&K’s New SP5 – A Civilian Semiauto MP5 Pistol

December 2, 2019 Ian McCollum 23

The MP5 is widely regarded as the best submachine gun ever made, and it has been widely copied. But only now has H&K released a semiauto civilian version of it in pistol form. Prior to […]

Revolver

1884 Tacticool: Silver & Fletcher’s “Expert” Auto-Ejector

December 1, 2019 Ian McCollum 29

In 1884, High Silver and Walther Fletcher patented a system to rapidly unload a gate-style revolver. They negotiated an agreement to have their system integrated into Webley revolvers (specifically the New Model RIC) as an […]

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