Manuals
Original Mendoza HM-3
Mexico has more of a history of domestic arms design and production than many people expect – from the many designs of Manuel Mondragon to Rafael Mendoza’s light machine guns, the Trejo machine pistols, and […]
Machine Guns
Conversion
The Huot Machine Rifle: A Ross Conversion
The first serious automatic weapon considered for military service in Canada was the brainchild of Joseph Alphonse Huot, a machinist and blacksmith from Quebec. Born in 1878, Huot was a large and strong man (not […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Femme Fatale
Leningrad, 1942, with a DP28 light machine gun. Women served the Red Army in substantial numbers as pilots, snipers, and machine gunners. In light of the controversy over US women moving into combat roles, this […]
Aircraft MGs
Turkish Manual for the Colt MG40
I recently found this in a private library, and I believe it’s the first Turkish-language manual I’ve come across. It’s dated 1936, and although the cover illustration shows a 1917 type water cooled gun, the […]
Light MGs
Semiauto Madsen LMG Video
The Madsen light machine gun is note-worthy for several reasons – it was the first military-issue light machine gun developed and it was successful enough to remain in production into the 1950s (long after every […]
Prototype
Experimental MP38(L)
Michael Heidler has again come up with a one-of-a-kind German firearm, and sent us this writeup. This time, it is an experimental variation on the MP38 submachine gun. Thanks, Michael! The German experimental light-weight submachine […]
Competition
Monthly 2-Gun Action Challenge Match
In addition to studying and researching unusual firearms, I enjoy shooting, and like to take any opportunity I can get to get trigger time with the more obscure designs out there. The local 2-Gun Action […]
Mystery
San Diego Destinations and a Mystery SMG
First up, it looks like I’m going to be traveling to San Diego for the week of July 21st – does anyone know of a museum in the area with a good small arms collection […]
Light MGs
Quote of the Week: Vladimir Peniakoff
Speaking about his time leading a group of Arab soldiers in Libya prior to his involvement in the LRDG: We also obtained captured Italian machine guns: these weapons of a new design of extreme ingenuity, […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Rank Hath its Privileges
A Soviet M1910 Maxim (early version, without the snow cap) on the Mannerheim Line, 1940.