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Vintage Saturday: Maxim-Tokarev

October 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 20
Reader Ruy has sent us this great photo of a very unusual gun in action in the Spanish Civil War – a Maxim-Tokarev “light” machine gun.
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Aircraft MGs

Hotchkiss Aerial Gun

October 26, 2012 Ian McCollum 3
We came across an interesting manual (in English, as a bonus!) for a variety of Hotchkiss machine gun which we have very little information on. It’s an aircraft gun, intended for use by the observer […]
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Reising M55 SMG Video

October 22, 2012 Ian McCollum 9
The Reising series are some of the forgotten weapons the were formally adopted by the US military and used during WWII without getting much attention today, being overshadowed by the Thompson and M3 Grease Gun. […]
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Light MGs

Vintage Saturday: More BAR!

October 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 11
The BAR sure got around, didn’t it? This is a Polish wz.28 Belgian Modele 30 model in China (thanks to Leszek for the correction).
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Submachine Guns

Japanese Model II-A SMG

October 17, 2012 Ian McCollum 7
Japanese submachine guns are a particularly unknown corner of firearms history – the most common model is the Type 100, and ever it is exceedingly rare today. So we were pretty interested when we found […]
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Light MGs

Bren Magazines and the Charlton Rifle

October 16, 2012 Ian McCollum 7
We see it a lot – folks wanting to convert their Enfield rifle to use 30-round Bren gun magazines. And it’s often a bit difficult to convince them of the complexity of doing so, because […]
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Light MGs

The Pig – M60E3 Video

October 15, 2012 Ian McCollum 38
The M60 light machine gun is something of a contentious subject. Many veterans who used it in combat in Vietnam remember it very fondly despite its design defects, while many more recent users detest it. […]
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Light MGs

Book Review: Special Service Lee-Enfields

October 11, 2012 Ian McCollum 1
To go along with the week’s focus on self-loading Enfield conversions, we have a copy of Ian Skennerton’s Small Arms Identification volume #13, Special Service Lee-Enfields: Commando and Auto Models. It’s only about 47 pages […]
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Light MGs

Live Charlton Reproduction

October 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 5
Are you one those odd people like us who saw yesterday’s post on the Charlton rifle/machine gun and thought it would be really great to own one of them despite (or, let’s be honest, because […]
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Light MGs

Charlton Automatic Rifle

October 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 16
  Concept The idea of converting bolt action rifles into semiautomatic or fully automatic designs is not a unique one. It used to come up fairly regularly – most national armies investigated the concept at […]

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