Artillery
Book Review: A Gun For All Nations
I ran across a mention of this book while trying to find some information on this 37mm Hotchkiss machine gun – and this book was the only reference I could find any mention of it […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Bolt Action Rifles
Atmed SMG and an Arisaka Addendum
First up today, we have some additional information on the scaled-down Arisaka trainer from our video on Monday. Teri from Nambu World gave us some more details (thanks, Teri and Chip!) that we would like […]
Commentary
Training, Zombie Style!
Zombies? Yeah, I know – if you are looking for detailed gun info, best to leave now and check back tomorrow. But if you have a moment, stick with me… I spent a very fun […]
Uncategorized
Brazilian M954 (G43 copy) on GunBroker…
We got a tip from Weaponsman that there’s a Brazilian G43 copy, called an M954, closing on GunBroker in a couple hours. These were made in .30-06, and are pretty rare items – and this […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Scaled-Down Arisaka Trainer (Video)
In many countries prior to WWII, it was not uncommon to begin preparing children for military service at fairly young ages, and several countries produces small-scale rifles for training boys who could not yet handle […]
Commentary
Proxibid Warning
So, just a heads-up for you guys who take part in online auctions – we’ve had some complaints about the Proxibid outfit. They allow people to remotely participate in live auctions – like the Cowans […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Faye Schulman
Faye Schulman was born in the small Polish town of Lenin in 1919 to a large Jewish family. After the German attack on Russia, the town was occupied, and in August 1942 the town’s roughly […]
Semiauto pistol
Arkady Shipunov and the GSh-18 Pistol
We learned (thanks, Denny) that Arkady Shipunov passed away last week. He began work at Tula arsenal in 1950, and was chief designer of its instruments bureau from 1962 until 2006 – quite the long […]
Book review
Book Review: International Arms Review 1
We’ve all seen the books of compiled articles at gun shows, printed by Gun Digest or other sundry magazines. I usually don’t give them a second glance, at least until now. I had a friend […]
Anti-Tank Rifles
Japanese Type 97 20mm Anti-tank Rifle
Today’s article comes to us from, Christopher Bailey, who is particularly interested in finding information and photos of these kinds of antitank weapons. He is especially interested in high-quality photos, both period and modern. If you […]