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Overview of Canadian Gun Laws
Today, a general overview of Canadian gun laws, so we Americans (and you folks across the ocean) can have a better idea of what the legal situation is in the Great White North. Please recognize […]
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Forgotten Weapons: State of the Channel 2018
Thanks to all my viewers (and readers), new and old alike! I have some really exciting plans for 2018, and I’m happy to have you all along with me for them! This year I will […]
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Captain Fraser’s Webley-Fosbery: WWI in Microcosm
Captain Percy Fraser, DSO was born on January 22, 1879 and died in Ypres on the night of February 23, 1915 while attempting to aid men wounded outside their trench. His unit of the Queen’s […]
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Firearms Basics: Rifle Length Terminology
If you starting looking carefully at military bolt action rifles, you will find that they generally all fall into one of three categories: Rifles: 30-32 inches / 760-810mm Short Rifles: 24-26 inches / 610-660mm Carbines: […]
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Pronunciation: Is it carBEAN or carBYNE? And why?
Every time I say “carbine” on film, I get a bunch of people complaining that I’m saying it wrong. So…am I?
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Q&A #14: Recoil, Nerf, and Forced Air Cooling
Today’s question topics: 0:00:58 – Factors affecting recoil in machine guns 0:04:57 – Revisiting/remaking old videos 0:05:58 – Is the MP5 still relevant? 0:06:47 – Am I excited to film different guns? 0:08:12 – Vintage […]
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Four Annoying Gun Myths, with Bloke on the Range
I had a chance to meet up with Bloke on the Range in Switzerland, and we decided to spend some time discussing a few of the myths that have managed to get themselves solidly affixed […]
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What You Didn’t Know About the 1968 Machine Gun Amnesty
When the 1968 machine gun amnesty was announced in the US, it was treated with widespread suspicion among gun collectors. Some thought it would merely a pretense to find and arrest owners of unregistered machine […]
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Final Prices: RIA September 2017 Premier Auction (and what I bought!)
As usual, I have a recap today of the final prices of the guns I filmed form the most recent RIA auction (#71; September 2017). There were a bunch of machine guns in this one, […]
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Five Excellent YouTube Gun Channels You Might Not Know About…
While ForgottenWeapons has become a fairly large channel with a lot of visibility, there are plenty of other people out there creating excellent informative video content on historical firearms. Today I want to point out […]