Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Child Labor
PPD-40 submachine guns being assembled by young girls.
Machine Guns
Light MGs
Slow Motion: .303 Lewis Gun
A Lewis Gun, in .303 British, at 2000 frames per second: The Lewis Gun was developed by American Isaac Newton Lewis shortly before WWI, but the US military was not interested in it (in part […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Yer Doin’ It Rong
Waffen SS soldiers investigating a captured (and disassembled) DP-28 LMG pan magazine.
Aircraft MGs
Luftgekühltes Maschinen Gewehr 08/15 (Video)
I recently had a chance to do some shooting with a friend’s luftgekühltes maschinen gewehr 08/15 – the air cooled, lightened version of the German MG08 Maxim gun. These were one of the standard armaments […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Legs and Wheels
Imperial Russian gun crew with a 1905 Maxim on an early Sokolov tripod mount.
Aircraft MGs
Slow Motion: lMG 08/15 Maxim
Today we’re looking at a luftgekühlt maschinengewehr 08/15 in slow motion – a lightened and mair-cooled version of the Maxim used on German WWI aircraft. This particular example is set up as a Zeppelin gun, […]
Manual machine guns
Reproduction Nordenfelt Gun
A few days ago I was at a small machine gun shoot (which wound up being a bit larger than I’d expected), and was happily surprised to discover that one of the attendees had brought […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Crew-Served
German WWI Landwehr unit posing with an MG08.
Light MGs
Online-Only Auction at RIA
It is worth pointing out the RIA has added a third type of auction in the last year or so; online-only. The idea is to have a lower-overhead way to sell some of the things […]
General Purpose MGs
Reptilicus: Danish MGs in Action
Want to see more Danish machine guns (mostly Madsen LMGs, but also a couple Madsen-Saetters) in one place than you’ve ever seen before? Well, try the 1961 Danish monster flick “Reptilicus”. It’ a pretty terrible […]