Light MGs
FN-DA1: The BAR for NATO
After World War Two, FN put the BAR back into production. This was initially the FN-D version with a quick-change barrel, but with NATO’s adoption of the 7.62mm cartridge, there was a demand for the […]
Machine Guns
Slow motion
SIG MKPS at the Range
Today we have the SIG MKPS out at the range – and WOW! I did not anticipate just how fast-firing of a submachine gun this is. Calculating from the high speed footage, it is running […]
Submachine Guns
SIG MKPS: Possibly the Most Beautiful SMG Ever Made
SIG began making SMGs in the 1920s with a licensed copy of the Bergmann. In 1927 the license expired, and they began working on their own designs, the first of which was introduced as the […]
General Purpose MGs
FN MAG: Best of the Western GPMGs
The FN MAG (Mitrailleuse d’Appui Général – General Purpose Machine Gun) was designed by Ernest Vervier, who took over from Dieudonné Saive as FN’s lead military arms designer in 1954. The Swedish government approached FN […]
Prototype
m/26 Suomi: Aimo Lahti’s First Production Design
Aimo Lahti was the premier firearms designer, and the m/26 was his first significant design. Lahti was a Civil Guard armorer, and upon seeing the Lindelof copy of the Bergmann SMG in 1921 he thought […]
Conversion
Ukrainian DShK as Infantry Support Weapon
The initial Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 stagnated into trench warfare after a few months, and Ukrainian forces found themselves often in entrenched positions 500m or more from Russian opposition. At that range, their […]
General Purpose MGs
Ukrainian Adaptation of PKTs to Infantry Use
I have had several people send me this video, showing a Ukrainian shop converting PKT machine guns to an infantry configuration. The PK machine gun is used in a lot of Russian armored vehicles, but […]
Ian's Customs
Ian’s Customs: Lage Max11A1/15 Light Machine Gun
I bought an M11A1 machine pistol several years ago, when I first heard about the Lage Max11/15 project (I chose the M11A1 because I wanted the shortest registered receiver possible). Well, the M11A1 version of […]
Conversion
Lage Max11/15: A Conversion From Machine Pistol to LMG
Lage Manufacturing has been making conversion uppers for MAC-pattern machine pistols for a long time. They have a bunch of 9mm uppers in a variety of styles, some using magazines in the grip and some […]
Submachine Guns
UC-9 at the Range
Yesterday we looked at the development and mechanics of the UC-9 folding sneaky submachine gun. Today we are out at the range with it – how does this thing actually handle? Well, actually better than […]