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Wrapping up a Road Trip…
Sorry guys, I don’t have any content to post today. I’m writing this from the airport, en route back home after an extended trip. I spent several days in Vegas for the annual DefCon hacker […]
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Frommer Stop
This week’s slow motion gun is the Frommer Stop, put into production in 1912. The Hungarian designer Rudolf Frommer was responsible for a series of long-recoil pistols, of which the Stop was the last and […]
Heavy MGs
Enfield 1899 Maxim Photos
Here’s another set of Maxim photos, this time of an 1899 pattern gun made at Enfield. Photos courtesy of the UK MoD.
Light MGs
Prototype
Mauser 1912/14 Automatic Pistol (Video)
The Mauser 1912/14 automatic pistol was the final stage of a dead-end development track for a military sidearm in 9mm Parabellum made by Mauser. The program began as a plain blowback pistol in 1909, which […]
Aircraft MGs
Vintage Saturday: Salvage
Finnish troops salvaging Maxim guns from a downed Russian Polikarpov R5 bomber shot down near Suistamo, Finland.
Semiauto pistol
Slow Motion: Colt All American 2000
The All-American 2000 was Colt’s attempt to compete with Glock for the military and police service pistol market. It had a polymer frame (except a few early ones with aluminum frames), a double-action-only striker firing […]
Aircraft MGs
Quad MG81 Anti-Aircraft Mount
by Tom Laemlein As World War II progressed, the Luftwaffe looked to increase firepower wherever possible, from deploying large-caliber air weapons or increasing the rate of fire with smaller, rifle-caliber weapons. Such is the case […]
Light MGs
Beardmore-Farquhar Photos
Courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defense, we have a bunch of photos of a 1920 model Beardmore-Farquhar light machine gun: