Machine Guns - Forgotten Weapons

Quote of the Week: Vladimir Peniakoff

June 2, 2013 Ian McCollum 10

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, […]

Vintage Saturday: Rank Hath its Privileges

June 1, 2013 Ian McCollum 33

A Soviet M1910 Maxim (early version, without the snow cap) on the Mannerheim Line, 1940.

Vintage Saturday: Indirect Fire

May 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 32

British troops in the Netherlands (Overloon, specifically) using a Vickers for indirect fire. In addition to the copious empty brass, belts, ammo boxes, and spare condensing can, note the angle of the dial sight relative […]

Hotchkiss M1922 LMG

May 24, 2013 Ian McCollum 47

Many people are unaware of just how many different firearms were produced by the Hotchkiss company over the decades – not many of them received the worldwide acclaim of the more well known arms companies. […]

Vintage Saturday: Too Sexy For My Shirt

May 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 24

Greek soldiers practicing antiaircraft fire with a model 1926 Hotchkiss LMG – note the AA extension on the tripod. Thank to Di for the photo!

French MAS-38 SMG

May 17, 2013 Ian McCollum 39

In the early 1930s, France adopted a new standard pistol and a new cartridge to go with it – the MAS 1935 and the 7.65x20mm, closely patterned on the us M1918 Pedersen Device cartridge. They […]

Book Review: The Devil’s Paintbrush

May 16, 2013 Ian McCollum 6

One of my favorite books to just flip through at random is Dolf Goldsmith’s The Devil’s Paintbrush: Sir Hiram Maxim’s Gun. Every time I open it, I find another detail of information that I had […]

Vintage Saturday: Tacticool Suomi

May 11, 2013 Ian McCollum 30

Finnish soldiers, photo found by Leszek at the Finnish Winter War Archive. The fellow on the left has a holstered Lahti L35 pistol, while the gent on the right has an early Suomi m/31 SMG.

Argentine Halcon SMG Family

May 10, 2013 Ian McCollum 6

We have a reprint of an article on the Argentine Halcon SMG written by Ronaldo Olive today, originally published in Gun Tests in the early 90s. These are pretty tough guns to find information on […]

Atmed SMG and an Arisaka Addendum

May 8, 2013 Ian McCollum 18

First up today, we have some additional information on the scaled-down Arisaka trainer from our video on Monday. Teri from Nambu World gave us some more details (thanks, Teri and Chip!) that we would like […]