Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Legs and Wheels
Imperial Russian gun crew with a 1905 Maxim on an early Sokolov tripod mount.
Articles by Ian McCollum
Select-fire Rifles
FFV-890C: The Swedish Service Rifle That Never Was
Seth Cane has previously written a 3-part series of articles for us on the Galil, which you can see here: Galil SAR, Galil AR, and Galil ARM. He is now following that with an in-depth […]
Aircraft MGs
Slow Motion: lMG 08/15 Maxim
Today we’re looking at a luftgekühlt maschinengewehr 08/15 in slow motion – a lightened and mair-cooled version of the Maxim used on German WWI aircraft. This particular example is set up as a Zeppelin gun, […]
Revolver
Eibar “Spanish Model 92” Revolver
Today’s post is a guest article written by Mike Burns, taking a look at one of the S&W revolver copies made in Eibar for the French military. He compares it to a WWI .455-caliber S&W […]
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New Sponsor: James D. Julia Auction Company
I’d like to take a moment today to introduce our most recent new sponsor of Forgotten Weapons: the James D. Julia auction company. They are one of the premier firearms auctions houses in the US, […]
Prototype
Danish Madsen-Ljungman Rifle
Thanks to reader John D, we have a chance today to look at a very scarce Danish-made copy of the AG-42B Ljungman rifle. The Madsen company in Denmark made about 50 of these rifles for […]
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Savage is Looking for Design Engineers, and an InRange Old West Vignette
Are you a firearms design engineer looking for a new gig? Savage Arms contacted me to say that they are looking for an experienced designer for their Westfield, Massachusetts team. You can see their full […]
Manual machine guns
Reproduction Nordenfelt Gun
A few days ago I was at a small machine gun shoot (which wound up being a bit larger than I’d expected), and was happily surprised to discover that one of the attendees had brought […]
Semiauto pistol
Touring the Iraqi Tariq Pistol Factory
Nick Crawford contacted me after seeing my recent video on the Tariq pistol RIA is selling this weekend, to mention that he’d had the opportunity to poke around the factory where those pistols had been […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Clever Double Barrel Sporting Rifle at RIA
This double-barreled sporting rifle made by Christoph Funk in Germany is not much like the typical over-under double-barreled rifle. It began as a fairly standard Mauser bolt action, chambered in 7×57 Mauser with a 5-round […]