Manual machine guns
Puckle Gun (Video)
The Puckle Gun is probably best known as that thing that had round bullets for Christians and square bullets for Turks, but there is much more to it than just that (and in addition, the […]
Machine Guns
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Early WWI Machine Gun Emplacement
I don’t have a date or location for this photo, but it is clearly quite early in the Great War. Note the nice pickelhaube covers and the big shields on the MG08s. Those shields would […]
Aircraft MGs
Slow Motion: M134 Minigun (Video)
Following up to yesterday’s look at the history and (partial) disassembly of a GE M134 Minigun, today we will check it out in slow motion. I filmed these high-speed shots, but there was so much […]
Aircraft MGs
M134 Minigun: The Modern Gatling Gun (Video)
The General Electric M134 “Minigun” is essentially an electrically-powered Gatling gun – the conceptual operation of the gun is identical to Dr. Gatling’s original creation. What has changed, however, is the chambering (it’s in 7.62 […]
Heavy MGs
Vickers Heavy Machine Gun (Video)
The Vickers is quite simply the best heavy machine gun ever made.
Semiauto Rifles
Vintage Saturday: More Spoils
German soldiers with captured American small arms, circa 1944. The other guy’s stuff is always better than yours, right? Well, I would rather have an M1 than a K98k, but the Thompsons? No thanks. Interesting […]
Light MGs
Hudson .30 Cal Machine Gun Toolroom Model (Video)
Robert F Hudson developed a series of machine guns for the US Navy during the 1920s and 1930s, including this .30 caliber example as well as .50 caliber and 1.1 inch versions. What makes these […]
Submachine Guns
Vietnamese Guns for Algeria
I was pointed to this interesting snippet of a document about one particular shipment of arms to the Algerian rebels fighting French colonial occupation in the 1950s – from Vietnam. Can’t say I would have […]
Prototype
Thompson SMG in 30 Carbine (Video)
When the US military released a request for what would become the M1 Carbine in 1940, the Auto-Ordnance Corporation offered up a Thompson submachine gun simply rechambered for the new .30 Carbine cartridge. This entailed […]
Gunsmithing
Great Article on the Dror LMG
Terry Edwards has graciously offered to let me repost the excellent article he wrote for Small Arms Defense Journal. It’s a two part PDF, and I have posted both parts below. If you are interested […]