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Home2022August

Month: August 2022

Semiauto Rifles

Angstadt Arms MDP-9: MP5 Meets AR15

August 19, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

Angstadt Arms has recently released their MDP-9 carbine, an AR-type lower coupled with a roller-delayed blowback upper assembly. This is the same operating system as the much-lauded MP5, and Angstadt version of the design is […]

Q&A

Ask Ian: Tractors to Typewriters, Non-Gun Companies Making Guns?

August 18, 2022 Ian McCollum 52

https://youtu.be/w92Jyc9nzig From Brian on Patreon: “Would you give your thoughts and comments on non-gun companies making guns? For example Baldwin Locomotive/Eddystone 1917s, IH Garands, GM M-16s, most M-1 carbines, maybe even TRW M-14s. How did […]

Semiauto pistol

Belgian GP-35: Pre-War Browning High Power Complete Rig

August 17, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

The Browning High Power (“Grande Puissance”, aka GP-35) was developed by Fabrique National in Belgium, designed primarily by John Browning’s apprentice Dieudonné Saive. It began in the very early 1920s as a pistol designed for […]

Commentary

What Are Some of the Best Investment Handguns?

August 16, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

Today I’m joined by Len Antaris of Historic Investments to discuss, well, historic investments. I maintain that firearms are better bought for their historic value than as speculative investments, but there are certainly plenty of […]

Light MGs

Mendoza 1934: Mexico’s Domestic LMG

August 15, 2022 Ian McCollum 24

Rafael Mendoza was Mexico’s premier domestic arms designer, and the Model 1934 LMG is probably his most successful design. He began work on it in 1929, and it entered testing with the Mexican Army in […]

Competition

Desert 2-Gun: 108 Fahrenheit With a WWSD Commando

August 13, 2022 Ian McCollum 15

In may last full-match opportunity to practice for Finnish Brutality, I brought my WWSD Commando (10.5″ barrel) and an Arex Delta out (my guns for Finland are already on their way across the Atlantic). The […]

Semiauto Rifles

Innovative and Interesting: Tinck Arms Perun X16

August 12, 2022 Ian McCollum 42

Don’t miss Bloke of the Range’s video of the X-16: The Tinck Arms Perun X-16 (distributed in the US by AEA Arms) is a much more interesting rifle than I expected from an initial glance. […]

Commentary

Utreon: Good Video Hosting for Both Viewers & Creators

August 11, 2022 Ian McCollum 10

https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ I have mentioned Utreon before, but I want to take a moment to do so again. The site continues to grow and improve, and it has a bunch of features that are actually better […]

Prototype

Poland’s Problematic First SMG: The wz.39 Mors

August 10, 2022 Ian McCollum 9

Designed by Piotr Wilniewczyca and Jan Skrzypinski starting in 1936, the Mors was Poland’s first domestic SMG. Polish police forces had purchased Thompsons and Suomi in the 1920s and 1930s, but the military still had […]

Museum Review

Virtual Tour of the Polish Army Museum

August 9, 2022 Ian McCollum 7

On my recent trip to Warsaw, I spent some time filming guns in the collection of the Polish Army Museum. In an effort to create something of a library of museum tours, I made sure […]

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