Submachine Guns

Feeling the Bern: Shooting the Swiss Furrer MP-41/44 SMG

April 28, 2018 Ian McCollum 26

When I filmed yesterday’s video on the MP-41/44, and did not know I would have a chance to actually do some live fire with it. But we snuck off to a little shooting range to […]

Swiss MP-41/44: Adolph Furrer and His Toggle Lock Fascination

April 27, 2018 Ian McCollum 37

The Swiss military discovered an urgent need for submachine guns in the early years of World War II, and sent out a very short-notice request for SMG designs. This seemed like the perfect opportunity […]

Book Review – The Mac Man: Gordon B Ingram and His Submachine Guns

April 22, 2018 Ian McCollum 22

Gordon Ingram served as an infantryman during World War Two, and decided to get into the gunmaking business after the war. He though there was a market for a submachine gun for police and military […]

Shooting a Suppressed Sten Gun

March 19, 2018 Ian McCollum 28

During World War Two, the British spent several years developing a silenced version of the Sten gun for special operations commandos and for dropping to mainland European resistance units. This is a recreation of one […]

Italy’s Sleeper Submachine Gun: The Beretta 38A

March 16, 2018 Ian McCollum 27

The Beretta 38A is not a gun that comes to mind for many people today when discussing World War Two submachine guns, but at the time it was one of the most desirable guns of […]

Japanese Contract Steyr-Solothurn S1-100 (aka MP34)

March 13, 2018 Ian McCollum 16

In order to circumvent Versailles Treaty restrictions on arms manufacture, the German Rheinmetall firm purchased a small Swiss company called Solothurn Waffenfabrik in 1929, allowing it to route its business through Switzerland instead of Germany. […]