Semiauto Rifles
French A6 Meunier M1916
The French military is the butt of quite a lot of jokes…I’m sure we’ve all heard the one about the great deal on French surplus – never fired and only dropped once! Well, when it […]
Rifles
Semiauto Rifles
Howa Type 89
Not all interesting and obscure guns are a century old – there are plenty of guns in common use today that are not well known. One such gun is the Howa Type 89. It is […]
Semiauto Rifles
Howell Automatic Rifle
So, let us pretend we are 1940s British ordnance officers, and we need more automatic rifles. What are we to do? There is so much war material that needs to be produced, and we have […]
German
Semiauto Rifles
More Breda PG photos
The Breda PG was one of the first rifles we had in the Vault, but now we’ve found some much better pictures of one. Instead of vintage black-and-white, we now have color! You can find […]
Semiauto Rifles
Mauser 1905/06 semiauto rifle
The Mauser brothers are best known for their bolt action rifles and automatic pistols, but Paul Mauser worked on a semiauto military rifle as well. His design was a long-recoil action, and was not ultimately […]
Semiauto Rifles
US Bommarito semiauto rifle
The Bommarito was one of the many rifle designs sent to the US Ordnance Department when they announced a search for a capable autoloading rifle for the US Army. It was not one of the […]
Prototype
British .308 Sterling prototype
Here’s an interesting piece – a British prototype 7.62mm rifle based on the Sterling submachine gun. We don’t have much information about it, but that is definitely an FAL magazine and a Sterling grip and […]
Semiauto Rifles
Luger self-loading rifle
Not to be confused with the various models of Luger carbines produced in 9x19mm, this is an experimental self-loading rifle designed by Georg Luger for the German military. It uses the same toggle-lock action as […]
Patent drawings
Mondragon Rifle
The Mondragon rifle, designed by Mexican Manuel Mondragon, was the first semiauto rifle adopted by a national military. It was not particularly successful beyond passing that bar, but it did show the way of things […]