Submachine Guns - Forgotten Weapons

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 […]

“Enemy Weapons” of Germany – Part V

October 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

Don’t forget, there are still several days to enter our DVD giveaway – we’re giving away two copies of our recent Machine Gun Manuals DVD (worth forty bucks each!) – and you can get one!. […]

Vintage Saturday: Overkill

September 29, 2012 Ian McCollum 11

The German has a rather uncommon Erma MP-35, and judging from the can the unfortunate fellow in the grass was carrying magazines for a DP-28.

Finnish Jatimatic SMG

September 17, 2012 Ian McCollum 14

The Jatimatic was a Finnish submachine gun intended for bodyguards and private security forces. It was designed in the 1980s, and never achieved much success despite having some interesting and clever features. The bolt is […]

Brazilian INA M953 Submachine Gun

September 12, 2012 Ian McCollum 11

We’re happy to have another article by Ronaldo Olive today (reprinted with his permission – and originally found in Harris Publications’ SPECIAL WEAPONS FOR MILITARY & POLICE, 1991) – this time on the INA 953, […]

Hotchkiss Universal Video

August 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 12

The Hotchkiss Universal is a pretty interesting submachine gun, despite its rather clumsy appearance. The overriding design intent was to make a very compact folding carbine, and Hotchiss certainly met that objective. However, the gun […]

Błyskawica: Poland’s First Successful SMG

August 3, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

We’re privileged today to have another guest article written by Leszek Erenfeicht (and I would strongly recommend that our Polish readers check out Strzal, the print magazine he regularly publishes in). This time he is […]

Mystery Gun Identified: 1944 Hyde Carbine

August 1, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

We’ve had this particular gun listed as unidentified for quite a long time, and had people suggest pretty much everything you can imagine to explain its origins: Well, thanks to a private collector we visited, […]

Swiss Week – Prototype Furrer 1919

July 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

We’ve mentioned that Adolf Furrer (director of Waffenfabrik Bern) began his career making Lugers and Maxims, which helps explain his obsession with toggle locks. Well, before he developed his own take on the mechanism for […]

Swiss Week – MP41/44

July 25, 2012 Ian McCollum 4

The line between genius and insanity is a thin one, right? Well, the Swiss LMG25 was well build and effective, but the MP41 and MP41/44 fell off the edge into silliness. It was adopted in […]