Handgun - Forgotten Weapons

Slow Motion: Star Model B Super

October 30, 2014 Ian McCollum 29

Today’s high speed video analysis is the first Browning-style pistol that was at hand when I took out the camera: a Star Model B Super. Manufactured in Spain for many years, this basic pistol was […]

Bergmann 1894 Grip Style

October 29, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

I recently had the opportunity to examine a very early model 1894 Bergmann pistol, and made an interesting discovery (discovery to me, at any rate). The gun has a rather elegant bird’s-head grip, and a […]

Colt All-American 2000 (Video)

October 27, 2014 Ian McCollum 71

The All-American 2000 was Colt’s attempt to break into the polymer high-cap pistol market in the early 1990s, when Glock was dominating that field. Colt took what appears to have been a pretty good pistol […]

Slow Motion: Fémáru 37M

October 16, 2014 Ian McCollum 9

The Frommer/Femaru 37M was the last in the line of handguns designed by Rudolf Frommer. The 37M was a single-action blowback pistol chambered for .380, although it was also purchased by Germany in .32 ACP […]

Swanström 1882 Automatic Pistol

October 10, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

Today’s post was written by a Swedish reader named Arne Bergkvist, about a very early Swedish automatic pistol I had not been aware of. It is particularly interesting as one of relatively few examples of […]

M1942 Sosso Pistol

October 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 32

The Sosso was an interesting design produced experimentally by FNA Bescia in Italy in very small numbers during World War II. It was a short-recoil operated design chambered for 9x19mm, and featured a particularly unusual […]

Another Chinese Pistol

October 3, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

Here’s another example of the inter-war Chinese pistol trade – this one from Roger Papke of Handfuls Of History. It’s interesting to note that this pistol is virtually identical in design to the one recently […]

Dreyse 1907 Slow Motion Video

October 2, 2014 Ian McCollum 10

The 1907 Dreyse is an early automatic pistol whose design is attributed to Louis Schmeisser. It saw fairly extensive use by the German military during World War I, and was also used by various German […]

Mauser C96 with Chinese Hand-Made Frame

September 30, 2014 Ian McCollum 26

After posting my video of the oddball Chinese pistol in the recent RIA auction, I received a number of emails from folks with similar sorts of guns. One was from a fellow named Leonardo, who […]

Austrian Rast & Gasser M1898 (Video)

September 29, 2014 Ian McCollum 46

The M1898 Rast & Gasser revolver was the last iteration of a series of revolvers, and was a standard Austro-Hungarian sidearm during WWI (despite the adoption of the Steyr M1912 selfloader). The M1898 an often […]