Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Announcing the Premium Membership Program

April 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 10

I am happy to announce the introduction of the Forgotten Weapons Premium Membership Program today! This is a way for folks who are interested to help contribute to keeping the site running every day, and […]

Darne Mle 1923 Manual

April 24, 2013 Ian McCollum 21

In 1915, the French Darne company – best known for sporting shotguns – entered the military market with a contract to manufacture Lewis guns for the French Army. Apparently some of the folks at Darne […]

Schwarzlose Followup – and the More Things Change…

April 23, 2013 Ian McCollum 8

When we went to the range to do our video on the Schwarzlose 1908 that you saw yesterday, we didn’t have our slow-motion-capable camera along. I knew it would be great to get some slow […]

Schwarzlose 1908 Video

April 22, 2013 Ian McCollum 15

We previously got to take a look at a Hino-Komuro, a Japanese blow-forward automatic pistol dating from 1908 – and today we have another blow-forward from 1908. Andreas Schwarzlose (best known for his 1907 and […]

Ross Project Promo

April 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

The Ross project is coming along nicely, so I filmed a quick teaser for you:

Vintage Saturday: Parade Gear

April 20, 2013 Ian McCollum 2

Motorcycle of the Guanabara Police Department, sporting a Hotchkiss 1914 heavy machine gun. Rio de Janeiro, 1960. Thanks to Ronaldo Olive for the photo!

Polish Resistance Sten Copy

April 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 15

To wrap up our week of semi-mystery guns, we have today a Sten gun copy made by the Polish Resistance. The gun’s owner didn’t have any details about its origin, and I have been unable […]

Radio Show Available

April 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 2

For folks who are interested in listening, my radio show with Charles Heller on America Armed & Free is now available online in mp3 format: Part 1 Part 2

Book Review: Bullets and Bureaucrats

April 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

For a while now I’ve been following the rabbit hole of machine gun use in the second half of the 19th century – the days of the manually-operated machine gun (Gatling, Gardner, Nordenfelt, etc) and […]

Argentine Halcon SMG

April 17, 2013 Ian McCollum 8

We don’t have very much information on the Halcon SMG from Argentina, but we do have a training manual for the gun to make available. As best I can tell there were at least 5 […]