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HomeRiflesSemiauto Rifles

Semiauto Rifles

Semiauto Rifles

The Diamond of Collector FALs: The G-Series

April 2, 2018 Ian McCollum 25
When the Browning Arms Company first began importing semiautomatic FAL rifles from FN in 1959, the submitted an example for evaluation, and ATF determined that it was not a machine gun. The rifle was made […]
Conversion

Israeli M1919 Brownings and the US Semiauto Market

March 28, 2018 Ian McCollum 37
In the world of converted semiautomatic “machine guns,” the Browning 1919 is a happy example of one of the most iconic and historically important US machine guns and also one of the cheapest semiautomatic belt […]
Semiauto Rifles

Semiauto Portuguese AR-10 on a Sendra Receiver

March 23, 2018 Ian McCollum 30
So, you would like to get an original AR-10 rifle to shoot? Well, the original Armalite AR10 rifles were almost all manufactured by Artillerie-Inrichtingen in the Netherlands, and they were virtually all machine guns. They […]
Prototype

Slow Motion: Gerät 06 (German WWII Prototype)

February 15, 2018 Ian McCollum 27
Before the invention of the roller-delayed system which would become the H&K G3, Mauser engineers in late World War Two built a small number of prototype roller-locked, gas piston operated rifles in 8x33mm, designated the […]
Semiauto Rifles

Daewoo K1A1: A Hybrid AR-15 and AR-18

February 14, 2018 Ian McCollum 20
During and after the Korean War, the South Korean military was armed with American weapons – M1 Garands, M1 Carbines, M3/M3A1 Grease Guns, and so on. In the 1970s they wanted to modernize their equipment, […]
Semiauto Rifles

How to Identify a Real M1A1 Carbine vs a Fake

February 10, 2018 Ian McCollum 41
Looking for a light and compact weapon to equip its new Airborne units, the US military adopted the M1A1 Carbine in May of 1942. This was mechanically identical to the existing M1 Carbine but with […]
Semiauto Rifles

The Albanian SKS: A Few Different Details

February 2, 2018 Ian McCollum 30
The Albanian SKS is the rarest of the major adoptees of the SKS rifle (Russia, China, Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania), and has a handful of interested details that differ from all other examples of the SKS […]
Semiauto Rifles

Pietta’s PPS/50 – A Popular PPSh Plinker

January 29, 2018 Ian McCollum 21
Introduced by the Italian Pietta company in the 1970s (yes, the same Pietta that makes all those reproduction Old West revolvers and lever action rifles), the PPS/50 has been a continuously popular firearm for more […]
Conversion

Snabb Semiauto Conversion of a Dutch Mannlicher

January 18, 2018 Ian McCollum 17
Snabb was a Swedish company created to market a system for converting bolt action rifles into semiautomatic rifles. The system was patented in the US in 1938, making this one of the very last attempts […]
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“Carbine” Williams’ Battle Rifle: The Winchester G30R

January 8, 2018 Ian McCollum 26
  The Winchester G30R is the final iteration of David Marshall Williams’ work on a full power .30 caliber military rifle. The project began with a design by Ed Browning (John Browning’s half brother) using […]

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