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Vintage Saturday: Making a C96 look big
Chinese guerrilla fighter, circa 1939. Today, she’d be an Olympic gymnast.
Articles by Ian McCollum
Submachine Guns
Błyskawica: Poland’s First Successful SMG
We’re privileged today to have another guest article written by Leszek Erenfeicht (and I would strongly recommend that our Polish readers check out Strzal, the print magazine he regularly publishes in). This time he is […]
Book review
Book Review: The World’s Assault Rifles
Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas Nelson’s The World’s Assault Rifles is always one of the first books we turn to for information on automatic rifles. At 1200+ pages, it’s a huge tome and a massive […]
Submachine Guns
Mystery Gun Identified: 1944 Hyde Carbine
We’ve had this particular gun listed as unidentified for quite a long time, and had people suggest pretty much everything you can imagine to explain its origins: Well, thanks to a private collector we visited, […]
Book review
Books, Magazines, and David Tubb
If you were interested in Bin Shih’s very nice book on Chinese firearms of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) but didn’t get one before they sold out, you’re in luck! He’s going to be running […]
Video
The Institute of Military Technology
We had the privilege of spending a couple days last week in Florida, attending the first of many seminars to be held by the Institute of Military Technology on firearms history and design. This particular […]
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Vintage Saturday: Charge of the Light Brigade
Okay, this isn’t actually the light brigade, it’s a Swiss unit (this is still Swiss Week) from probably the 1930s. The rider in the foreground has a cavalry variant of the LMG25, with its unusual […]
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Swiss Week – Prototype Furrer 1919
We’ve mentioned that Adolf Furrer (director of Waffenfabrik Bern) began his career making Lugers and Maxims, which helps explain his obsession with toggle locks. Well, before he developed his own take on the mechanism for […]
Book review
Book Review: Automatwaffen II
It’s a bit of a different book review today – since we’ve been looking at Swiss arms all week (and there’s a really unique one coming up tomorrow), we needed to find a book on […]
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Swiss Week – MP41/44
The line between genius and insanity is a thin one, right? Well, the Swiss LMG25 was well build and effective, but the MP41 and MP41/44 fell off the edge into silliness. It was adopted in […]