General Purpose MGs - Forgotten Weapons

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 […]

Richard Wray Machine Gun Auction Followup

April 30, 2013 Ian McCollum 23

So, the auction of the late Richard Wray’s machine gun collection (see previous post) was yesterday, with the non-NFA guns being auctioned today. The final prices are interesting to look at, with some wallet-wrenchingly high […]

Pulemet Kalashnikova

December 14, 2012 Ian McCollum 22

Shortly after the stamped-receiver AKM rifles went into mass production, Mikhail Kalashnikov and his bureau of technicians and engineers produced what is arguably best general-purpose machine gun in use today. It was adopted into service […]

“Enemy Weapons” of Germany – Part V

October 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

Don’t forget, there are still several days to enter our DVD giveaway – we’re giving away two copies of our recent Machine Gun Manuals DVD (worth forty bucks each!) – and you can get one!. […]

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 […]

Madsen-Saetter manual

February 28, 2011 Ian McCollum 3

Unfortunately, the Danish firm Madsen had a hard time getting many of its firearms to be widely accepted. The most successful was the early LMG, and also the M50 submachine gun. But many Madsen designs […]