Submachine Guns
Mors wz.39 SMG
I’m very happy to present another guest article by Leszek Erenfeicht today, on a very rare and quite unusual Polish submachine gun from the years just prior to WWII. As always, Leszek does a great […]
Machine Guns
Light MGs
Vickers-Berthier LMG Video
The Vickers-Berthier was a light machine gun that competed with the Bren unsuccessfully for British military use but was adopted by the Indian Army. We had the opportunity to handle a pair of them (an […]
Semiauto Rifles
Arms of the Venezuelan Coup
Fifty five years ago this week Marcos Pérez Jiménez, dictator of Venezuela, fled from power in the face of a popular uprising and botched military coup. Among other things, Jiménez had used Venzuela’s oil to […]
Manual machine guns
Gatling Gun Feeding Mechanisms
The Gatling Gun is interested for many reasons, and one of them is the variety of feeding mechanisms that were developed and used with it. Most firearms are designed around a single specific feeding mechanism, […]
Manual machine guns
Shooting an 1877 Bulldog Gatling
Thanks to a friendly collector, we had the chance to take out one of the new, gorgeous reproduction 1877 Gatling guns being sold by Colt. It’s a near-exact replica, with the added feature of being […]
Medium MGs
Vintage Saturday: Willie and Joe
US Marines somewhere in the Pacific with a captured Japanese Type 92 machine gun.
Medium MGs
Vintage Saturday: Type 53
Unrelated to this photo…the Zhejiang Iron Works in China made everything from machine guns to grenades to field glasses – and called everything “Type 77” in commemoration of the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July […]
Book review
Book Review: The Gatling Gun by Wahl and Toppel
Today’s book review is a re-run, because I’ve been re-reading this book in preparation for doing some video on an 1877 Gatling gun: The book we’re looking at is Paul Wahl and Donald Toppel’s The […]
Aircraft MGs
Russian ShKAS Aerial Gun
The Russian ShKAS (Shpitalny-Komaritsky Aircraft High-Speed Machine Gun) is a machine gun design form the 1930s that doesn’t receive nearly enough attention. It was the result of a need by the Soviet air force for […]
Aircraft MGs
Vintage Saturday: Wingshooting
The guns are aircraft Degtyarevs (DA-2), and appear to not have the drums mounted when the photo was taken. Note the vane-type front sight, and the distinctive muzzle brakes.