October, 2025 - Forgotten Weapons

GIGN’s Unique Bren 2 in 7.62×39: Counterterrorism and Hostage Rescue

October 13, 2025 Ian McCollum 21

GIGN – the “Group d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale” (Intervention Group of the National Gendarmerie) is the tip of the spear for French counterterrorism and major crime response. They are a relatively small (a few […]

ASh-78: Albania Makes the Worst AK

October 11, 2025 Ian McCollum 29

Check out Headstamp Publishing’s extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten Albanian AKs are both pretty scarce to find outside Albania, and also a bit unusual in the AK field. Where most countries followed Russian AK […]

Forgotten SIGs: SIG Pro SP2009 & SP2022

October 10, 2025 Ian McCollum 1

In 1998, SIG released the SIG Pro SP2340, essentially a polymer framed P226 chambered for .40S&W. This was followed the next year by the SP2009; the same gun but in 9x19mm. These pistols proved quite […]

Type 85: China’s Special Forces SMG (Regular and Silenced Versions)

October 8, 2025 Ian McCollum 1

Jason Clower’s video on the development and use of the Type 85: The Type 85 was a submachine gun developed in the 1980s in China to replace the failure that was the Type 79. It […]

Remote Brutality 2025: Burpees For Everyone!

October 6, 2025 Ian McCollum 10

Grayman & Co Tailoring: https://tidd.ly/3VFYqpp Because of the scheduling of Finnish Brutality 2025 early this year and Finnish Brutality 2026 in late summer next year, there is a really drought of Finnish Brutality right now […]

Larry Thorne Biography Part 2: Green Berets in Vietnam

October 4, 2025 Ian McCollum 0

Törni/Thorne shirts & patches: https://varusteleka.com/products/forgotten-weapons-lauri-torni-t-shirt-cotton “Born a Soldier: The Times and Life of Larry Thorne” by J. Michael Cleverley; recommended English language book on Thorne: https://amzn.to/3ZUjni4 Kari Kallonen’s book in Finnish is available here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50744551-lauri-t-rni—mannerheim-ristin-ritari-ja-usa […]

Soldier of Three Armies: Lauri Törni Biography Part 1 – Finland

October 3, 2025 Ian McCollum 3

Törni/Thorne shirts & patches: https://varusteleka.com/products/forgotten-weapons-lauri-torni-t-shirt-cotton “Born a Soldier: The Times and Life of Larry Thorne” by J. Michael Cleverley; recommended English language book on Thorne: https://amzn.to/3ZUjni4 Kari Kallonen’s book in Finnish is available here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50744551-lauri-t-rni—mannerheim-ristin-ritari-ja-usa […]

Bommarito: America’s First Toggle-Locked Battle Rifle

October 1, 2025 Ian McCollum 20

Designed by Giuseppe Bommarito, this was one of the many independent rifle designs submitted to the US War Department in the 1910s hoping for military adoption. It is a short recoil operated, toggle-locked system chambered […]