Machine Guns

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Light MGs

The Worst Gun Ever

July 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 44
By popular internet acclaim, the Worst Gun Ever is officially the Chauchat light machine gun. Every time the question comes up, that’s what people say. I’m not saying they’re necessarily wrong – but everyone always […]
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Medium MGs

French AA-52

June 25, 2012 Ian McCollum 16
The AA-52 was adopted to replace the Chatellerault light machine gun in French military service in 1952. The AA52 is rather unusual in being a rifle-caliber (7.5×54 French, specifically) machine gun using a lever-delayed blowback […]
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Submachine Guns

Benelli CB-M2 Caseless SMG

June 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 4
The Benelli CB-M2 was a submachine gun designed in the early 1980s around an experimental semi-caseless 9mm cartridge developed by Franchi. The gun itself looks fairly typical, with conventional controls, a bottom-mounted magazine, and polymer […]
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Heavy MGs

Swedish Kulspruta m/36

June 15, 2012 Ian McCollum 6
The Swedish military started using the Browning machine gun design shortly after World War I, and chose it initially because its closed-bolt design made it simple to synchronize with an aircraft propeller. About 170 commercial […]
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Submachine Guns

Franchi LF-57

June 8, 2012 Ian McCollum 14
The LF57 was the first production submachine gun made by the Italian Franchi company. It was introduced (as you might expect) in 1957, and was adopted by the Italian Navy a few years later, in […]