Artillery
Vintage Saturday: Desolation
US soldiers of the 23rd Infantry with a 37mm M1916 Infantry Gun in France, circa 1918.
Articles by Ian McCollum
Submachine Guns
The TZ-45: Italy’s Late-War SMG with a Special Safety
Today’s article is another guest piece from Michael Heidler, author of several very useful books for the collector. This time, he is taking a look at the Italian TZ-45 submachine gun, and it’s unusual implementation […]
Book review
Book Review: The Grand Old Lady of No Man’s Land
I got an email from a fellow a few days ago asking if there is a good book out there on the Vickers gun, so I figured it would be a good time to do […]
Submachine Guns
Romanian Orita SMG
When most folks think of the Axis powers in World War II, they think of Germany, Italy, and Japan. While these were certainly the dominant countries, we shouldn’t let them completely overshadow the smaller countries […]
Commentary
So Many Machine Guns!
Not too long ago, a pretty serious machine gun collector named Richard Wray passed away, and his estate is auctioning off his collection, which includes 80-odd transferable machine guns – nearly all of them very […]
Bolt Action Rifles
M1886 Lebel Video
The French M1886 Lebel was the first smallbore smokeless powder rifle adopted by a major military, and was a game changer in the European arms race in the 1880s. It wasn’t an outstanding design in […]
Uncategorized
Looking for a Beater Ross Mk III
Does anyone have a beater Ross Mk III (aka Ross M1910) rifle in the US that they would be willing to sell? The poorer the condition the better, as long is it’s in firing condition. […]
Artillery
Vintage Saturday: Stinkin’ Badges
Published in Osprey’s “The Mexican Revolution 1910-20” book, this photo postcard shows a very rare Hotchkiss 37mm automatic cannon. It was designed to compete with the Vickers Pom-Pom, and apparently was only bought in small […]
Submachine Guns
Danuvia 39M
None of Pál D. Király’s guns achieved monumental fame, but he had a long and successful career as a weapons design engineer and became one of those few gun designers who developed a novel operating system […]
Book review
Book Review: Social History of the Machine Gun
I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I opened up John Ellis’ The Social History of the Machine Gun – machine guns and social histories of anything don’t really tend to go together. Ellis […]