Ian McCollum - Forgotten Weapons

Light a Candle to Stop Violence

January 8, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

For every tragedy perpetrated by a lunatic, there are a thousand people who arm themselves and refuse to be made victims – in recognition of those people and in support of our innate human right […]

Vintage Saturday: Machine Gun Practice at Fort Dix

January 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

Frommer 1910 pistol

January 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

One of our readers on the Facebook page asked if we had any information on the Frommer Stop pistol a couple days ago. We don’t (at the moment) – but we do have a couple […]

Video Book Review: Mexican Military Arms, by James Hughes

January 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

James Hughes’ Mexican Military Arms is a pretty good book on a subject not often written about. It covers all the rifles used by the Mexican Army (both locally designed and purchased elsewhere) from the […]

Greg from Allegheny Arsenal on the Lafette Mount

January 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

We met up with Greg – who runs Allegheny Arsenal – at a gun show a couple weeks ago, and this is the first of a couple interviews we did with him on the MG34 […]

Forgotten Weapons at SHOT 2012

January 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 0

Yep, we’re going to the SHOT Show in Vegas this year. It’ll actually be my first time attending, and I’m really looking forward to it. We’re going to be interviewing some cool people (like Charles […]

Construction of Automatic Weapons

January 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

From our friend Hrachya, we have a very cool book for you today. Titled Construction of Automatic Weapons, it was printed in Russia in 1933, and consists of line drawings of all the major machine […]

Vintage Saturday: Maybe you can hire…the Model A Team!

December 31, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

Maybe this team can actually hit the bad guys once in a while…

Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols

December 30, 2011 Ian McCollum 4

Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you’ll find a real […]

End of Major Construction Operations

December 29, 2011 Ian McCollum 5

Alrighty, I think we’ve got the major site layout changes done now. The new format has a couple big improvements, like automatically sizing itself to fit your monitor width. But the main reason I made […]