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Year: 2019

Submachine Guns

Local Boy Saves Nation: The Australian Owen SMG

May 8, 2019 Ian McCollum 46
The One submachine gun is one of the ugliest SMGs ever designed, and yet also one of the most beloved by its users. The original basis for the gun was a .22 rimfire submachine gun […]
Commentary

Final Prices: Morphy’s April 2019 Auction

May 7, 2019 Ian McCollum 12
Preorders now open for my book, “Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016”! Get your copy here! Today we are looking at the results from the Morphy’s April 2019 sale to see what happened with […]
Bolt Action Rifles

The 1874 Gras: France Enters the Brass Cartridge Era

May 6, 2019 Ian McCollum 30
Preorders now open for my book, Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016! Get your copy here! After the disaster of the Franco-Prussian War, it was clear to the French military that the rationale for […]
Book review

Book Review: Foundations of Sniper Marksmanship

May 5, 2019 Ian McCollum 4
John C. Simpson has been teaching military and police sniper training since 1985 – nearly as long as I have been alive. I encountered him back when I filmed a video on a Confederate Whitworth […]
General Purpose MGs

A Brief Introduction to the M240 Golf

May 4, 2019 Ian McCollum 56
The FN MAG was adopted by the United States military to replace its aging inventory of M60 machine guns. It was designated the M240 in US parlance, and first used as a vehicle-mounted machine gun. […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Chassepot: Best of the Needle Rifles

May 3, 2019 Ian McCollum 19
Preorders now open for my book, Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016! Get your copy here! The Model 1866 Chassepot was France’s first military cartridge-firing rifle. It used a self-contained paper cartridge on the […]
Light MGs

Portugal’s MG-13: the M938 Light Machine Gun

May 2, 2019 Ian McCollum 40
The MG-13 is a transferrable machine gun being sold as lot #746 in the upcoming May 2019 Rock Island auction. The MG13 was an interim machine gun used by the German military in the 1930s […]
Conversion

Erma/Glaser Luger .22 Rimfire Conversion

May 1, 2019 Ian McCollum 11
This conversion kit is lot #1713 in the upcoming Rock Island May 2019 auction. In 1927, a Berlin resident named Richard Kulisch patented a .22 rimfire conversion kit for the Luger pistol. Kulisch’s conversion used […]
Bolt Action Rifles

Marga Trials Rifle: Competition For the Belgian Army

April 30, 2019 Ian McCollum 15
This rifle is lot #410 in the upcoming May 2019 Rock Island auction. When the Belgian military decided to adopt a new rifle in the late 1880s, they attached a wide variety of competitors. The […]
Semiauto pistol

Engraved Glock 19 Pistols – Yes, That’s a Thing

April 29, 2019 Ian McCollum 21
These three Glocks are lots 1731 (simplest), 1732 (intermediate), and 1733 (best) in the upcoming May 2019 Rock Island auction. Would you believe it? Factory engraved Glocks are actually a thing! They have not made […]

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