Semiauto pistol
Vintage Saturday: Rifles? What Rifles?
US World War I doughboys with M1911 pistols on display. Trigger discipline wasn’t what it is today.
Articles by Ian McCollum
Semiauto pistol
Bergmann No. 2 / 1896 Pistol
After several years of work and at least two Swiss military trials, Louis Schmeisser’s design of the Bergmann self-loading pistol was still not quite good enough to become a commercial success. Only a few pistols […]
Commentary
Gun Nation Podcast
Sorry guys – I don’t have a book review ready today. I’ve got a bunch of books in hand, but I’m still working my way through them. Instead, I do have the episode of Gun […]
Uncategorized
Gun Nation Podcast Tonight
Hey, guys – I’m happy to say that I’ll be joining Doc Wesson, Average Joe, and Grant Cunningham on the Gun Nation podcast tonight! You can listen in live at 9pm EST, or download the […]
Patent drawings
Bergmann 1894 – No.1 Pistol
As Theodore Bergmann and Louis Schmeisser embarked on the process of perfecting and improving their production pistols, they used a numbering system to identify the different models that were made. There are also model years […]
Patent drawings
Bergmann-Schmeisser 1893 Pistol
Today we are starting the story of the Bergmann automatic pistol – one of the early successful self-loading handguns, and one which led to a less prominent firearms dynasty than some other big names of […]
Percussion
North & Skinner Revolving Rifle
The North & Skinner was an early 6-shot percussion-fired revolving rifle design. Its design was patented in 1852 by Henry North and Chauncy Skinner (US Patent #8982), and the guns were manufactured from 1856 to […]
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2014 Calendars from Forgotten Weapons!
I use a monthly calendar to help organize my posting here on Forgotten Weapons, planning out what I’ll be writing and keeping track of which posts are finished and ready to go. As we started […]
Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Checkpoint Tommy
British soldier with a fancy new (unloaded) Sterling submachine gun manning a checkpoint in post-war occupied Germany.
Conversion
Pathan “44-Bore” AK in 8×33 Kurz
Today’s rifle is an curious example of forgotten weapons going full-circle and being reinvented. What we’re looking at is the “44 Bore”, a colloquial name given to AK-pattern rifles rechambered for the German 7.92×33 Kurz […]