Machine Guns

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Submachine Guns

Romanian Orita SMG

March 20, 2013 Ian McCollum 39
When most folks think of the Axis powers in World War II, they think of Germany, Italy, and Japan. While these were certainly the dominant countries, we shouldn’t let them completely overshadow the smaller countries […]
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Commentary

So Many Machine Guns!

March 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 36
Not too long ago, a pretty serious machine gun collector named Richard Wray passed away, and his estate is auctioning off his collection, which includes 80-odd transferable machine guns – nearly all of them very […]
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Submachine Guns

Danuvia 39M

March 15, 2013 Ian McCollum 26
None of Pál D. Király’s guns achieved monumental fame, but he had a long and successful career as a weapons design engineer and became one of those few gun designers who developed a novel operating system […]
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Belt-fed

Swiss MG94 Maxim

March 13, 2013 Ian McCollum 5
When Hiram Maxim began building his machine gun, the standard cartridges of the day were still large (.45 caliber or thereabouts) black powder rounds. Maxim’s early “World Standard” guns were designed around these rounds, and […]
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Submachine Guns

Dual-Magazine MP40/I

March 8, 2013 Ian McCollum 41
From the first introduction of detachable magazines on firearms, people have been looking for ways to increase magazine capacity. Whether it is drum mags, longer box mags, jungle clips to connect multiple mags together, or […]