Submachine Guns - Forgotten Weapons

When MAC-10 Meets Skorpion: Croatia’s Homeland War ALKA mod 93

August 24, 2022 Ian McCollum 13

The ALKA model 93 is one of the nicest of the several dozen simple SMGs made in Croatia during the Homeland War of the 1990s. It was produced by the IM Metal company (later renamed […]

Poland’s Problematic First SMG: The wz.39 Mors

August 10, 2022 Ian McCollum 9

Designed by Piotr Wilniewczyca and Jan Skrzypinski starting in 1936, the Mors was Poland’s first domestic SMG. Polish police forces had purchased Thompsons and Suomi in the 1920s and 1930s, but the military still had […]

Fun Time at the Range with a Skorpion Evo 3A1

July 30, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

https://www.instagram.com/czguns/ https://www.facebook.com/CZfirearms Today I’m taking a Skorpion Evo 3A1 out to the range…let’s see how much fun it can be!

Development of the CZ Skorpion from Laugo Prototype to Evo3A1

July 29, 2022 Ian McCollum 3

https://www.instagram.com/czguns/ https://www.facebook.com/CZfirearms The CZ Skorpion grew out of a Czech Army request for a new 9x19mm SMG as the newly formed Czech Republic pivoted to a Western orientation in the 1990s. The CZ factory took […]

A Special MPi-81 for an Infantry Fighting Vehicle

July 25, 2022 Ian McCollum 20

One interesting specialized version of the Steyr MPi-81 is this model, built for the Steyr/Saurer 4K 7FA armored personnel carrier. The vehicle could carry 8 infantrymen and their compartment had four firing ports fitted with […]

Skorpion 9×19 at the Range

July 16, 2022 Ian McCollum 10

https://www.instagram.com/czguns/ https://www.facebook.com/CZfirearms Yesterday we looked at the development of the Skorpion PDW/SMG in 9x19mm Parabellum both in the 1960s and then when it was revisited in the 1990s at CZ. Today I have the chance […]

PDW on Steroids: the vz68 and the Skorpion 9×19

July 15, 2022 Ian McCollum 20

The original Scorpion was adopted in .32 ACP caliber as the vz.61 by the Czechoslovakian military – but development of the Scorpion did not end there. Prototypes were also developed in .380, 9×18 Makarov, and […]

Ladislav Findorak’s Prototype Lever-Delayed PDW

July 6, 2022 Ian McCollum 29

This really neat compact PDW prototype was developed by Ladislav Findorak in the 1990s for a Czech military program, although nothing was adopted as a result. The lever-delayed system allows it to have a much […]

MPi-81: Steyr Basically Makes the Uzi

June 17, 2022 Ian McCollum 13

The MPi-69 was adopted by Austria to replace its aging MP40 submachine guns, and it included an unorthodox charging handle design connected to the sling. Clearly this didn’t turn out to be such a great […]

Agram 2000: Croatia’s Gangster Gun

June 13, 2022 Ian McCollum 24

The Agram 2000 was originally developed in the 1990s in response to a Croatian Army need for a submachine gun during the Independence War. It is a closed-bolt, hammer-fired, simple blowback submachine gun. The initial […]