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Knight’s Assault Machine Guns at the Range

May 11, 2019 Ian McCollum 66

Knights Armament introduced their “Assault Machine Gun” a couple years ago, and I had a chance to take both versions (5.56mm and 7.62mm) out to the range recently. The gun is the spiritual descendant of […]

A Brief Introduction to the M240 Golf

May 4, 2019 Ian McCollum 56

The FN MAG was adopted by the United States military to replace its aging inventory of M60 machine guns. It was designated the M240 in US parlance, and first used as a vehicle-mounted machine gun. […]

Original Vietnam-Era M60 at the Range

April 27, 2019 Ian McCollum 112

The M60 was the first modern American military machine gun, developed from the operating system of the German FG-42 and the feed system of the German MG-42 in the years after World War Two. It […]

Shooting the MP35: Germany’s Left-Handed SMG

April 22, 2019 Ian McCollum 34

This submachine gun is lot #1011 in the upcoming April 2019 Morphy auction. The MP-35 is one of several very nicely made inter-war German submachine guns. Unlike most, it has the magazine mounted on the […]

The Hotchkiss Heavy: Shooting the Great War’s Modele 1914

April 20, 2019 Ian McCollum 13

This Hotchkiss machine gun and its tripod are lot #2027 in the upcoming April 2019 Morphy auction. The Hotchkiss was the primary heavy machine gun for the French and American forces in World War One, […]

Shooting the Inglis 8mm Bren Gun

April 13, 2019 Ian McCollum 27

This Bren is lot #1013 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. The Bren gun is widely regarded as one of the best light machine guns ever built, but that reputation is based on the British .303 […]

The Soviet Jackhammer: Shooting an AVS-36

April 6, 2019 Ian McCollum 33

This rifle is lot #1019 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction. Yesterday we looked at the history and mechanics of the Soviet AVS-36 battle rifle, and today we are taking it out to the range. As […]

Shooting the H&K MP7

March 30, 2019 Ian McCollum 37

Thanks to H&K and Trijicon, I have a chance to do some shooting with an MP7A1 PWD today. The MP7 is unusual for a gun of its size and configuration in having a fully locked […]

BXP: Blowback eXperimental Parabellum

February 18, 2019 Ian McCollum 11

Andries Piek was a farmer in South Africa in the late 1970s when he mail ordered an LDP 9mm carbine from Rhodesia. The gun was impounded by South African customs, and Piek wound up designing […]

Chinese CS/LS2: A Modern Bullpup SMG with no Redeeming Qualities

February 9, 2019 Ian McCollum 35

This the fairly modern Chinese CS/LS2 – the 9mm Parabellum export model of the 5.8x21mm QCW-05 submachine gun. It takes most of its design cues form the QBZ-95 rifle, as you can see form the […]