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Collette Gravity Guns: A 60-Shot Rifle in 1854

September 21, 2021 Ian McCollum 18

What we today call the Collette Gravity Gun was actually designed by a gunsmith named Jean Nicolas Herman in Liege between 1850 and 1854. He was an employee of Victor Collette (note: spellings vary), and […]

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The Coolest Volcanic Ever: A Vintage Scoped Pistol-Carbine

August 25, 2020 Ian McCollum 13

Lot 1011 in the RIA September 2020 Premier auction. The “Pistol-Carbine” was a pattern offered by the Volcanic Arms Company combining a 16 inch rifle-length barrel with a pistol grip and detachable shoulder stock (it […]

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Chassepot: Best of the Needle Rifles

May 3, 2019 Ian McCollum 19

Preorders now open for my book, Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016! Get your copy here! The Model 1866 Chassepot was France’s first military cartridge-firing rifle. It used a self-contained paper cartridge on the […]

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Guycot 40-Shot Chain Pistol (Video)

December 19, 2016 Ian McCollum 28

The Guycot chain pistol was the development of two Frenchmen, Henri Guenot and Paulin Gay in 1879. It is chambered for a unique 6.5mm caseless rocket ball type cartridge in which the base of the […]

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RIA: Colette Gravity Pistol

September 1, 2015 Ian McCollum 13

Colette was a Belgian gun manufacturer that made this interesting parlor pistol. It used a rocketball type of cartridge, in which the powder and primer were encased in the hollow base of the bullet to […]

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TRW’s Proposed Caseless Machine Gun

August 28, 2013 Ian McCollum 17

TRW was a large engineering corporation which had decided to diversify into the arms business in the 1950s. Its first major contract was production of the M14, and its success in that endeavor led the […]

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Caseless Ammunition Overview

July 5, 2013 Ian McCollum 48

Caseless ammunition has always been an interesting topic on the fringes of arms design – people keep trying it out, but none of the systems seems to really get a solid foothold in a civilian […]

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