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American WWI Experimental SMG (Video)

August 7, 2015 Ian McCollum 54
Reader Larry sent me this video, which was produced by the US Army Ordnance Corp just recently. It’s a one-off experimental submachine gun built in 1918, and is definitely not something like you have seen […]
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Furrer M1919 Double-Barrel SMG

July 31, 2015 Ian McCollum 21
  We have looked at one of Adolf Furrer’s M1919 submachine guns before, but this one is a much different implementation. The model 1919 Furrer designed was basically a chassis for converting a Luger pistol […]
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Swiss Prototype Pistols: P44/8 and W+F Bern P43 (Video)

July 27, 2015 Ian McCollum 29
Switzerland was an early adopter of the Luger pistol as a standard military sidearm, but by WWII that design was becoming obsolete and the Swiss began looking for a newer sidearm. Several lines of development […]
British trials Bang Rifle, caliber .303 (photo courtesy National Firearms Centre, Leeds, UK)
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Danish Bang Rifle for British Trials

July 24, 2015 Ian McCollum 26
  One of the first semiautomatic rifles tested by the US military was a design by a Dane named Søren Hansen Bang, which was first presented to the government in 1911. The rifles used a […]
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BSW Prototype Gas-Operated Pistol (Video)

July 6, 2015 Ian McCollum 116
In 1936 or 1937, the BSW company (Berlin-Suhler Waffenwerk) produced a small number of prototype pistols for German Army trials. These trials were eventually won by the Walther P38, and for good reason in this […]
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Canada’s WWII Self-Loading Rifle Experiments

July 3, 2015 Ian McCollum 20
(The material for this post came primarily from a post made by Roger V. Lucy at the MilArt blog, which also has information on a couple other WWII Canadian experimental projects) When we see rifles, […]
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Light MGs

Mannlicher 1885 Semiauto Rifle

May 6, 2015 Ian McCollum 21
Ferdinand von Mannlicher’s Model 1885 self-loading rifle design as a failure, never seeing anything even resembling mass production. However, it was a failure which in many way set the stage for a huge number of […]
Schwarzlose 1898
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Schwarzlose 1898 Pistol (Video)

May 4, 2015 Ian McCollum 37
The model 1898 Schwarzlose was a self loading pistol definitely ahead of its time. It was simple, powerful (for the period; it was chambered for 7.63mm Mauser), and remarkably ergonomic. It used a short recoil, […]
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Gustloff Prototype Pistol at RIA

April 22, 2015 Ian McCollum 9
Gustloff was a large industrial concern in Germany which made many different weapons for the military. In addition to these, its attempted to market a small-caliber pistol for police or SS use. This pistol used […]
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Japanese Pedersen Rifle at RIA

April 19, 2015 Ian McCollum 10
After he failed to win US military adoption of his toggle-locked rifle design, John Pedersen went looking for other countries that might be interested in the gun. One of these was Japan, which experimented with […]

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