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We wound up with a duplicate book in the Reference Library: Geschichte und Technik der Selbstladepistole (History and Technology of the Self-Loading Pistol) by Werner Mootz. It’s a pretty neat book, loaded with patent drawings […]

The monthly 2-gun match was yesterday, and I used the opportunity to do some research into a classic question: To what extent can the faster action and increased magazine capacity of an Enfield rifle compensate […]

Last week, we talked a bit about obsolete firearms controls, and that discussion made me think of a fairly recent pistols with a fairly unique feature, the Browning BDM. Mechanically, the BDM is a pretty […]

We’ve been digging through the Forgotten Weapons Archives, and compiling all the rifle manuals were can put our hands on, and there were enough to justify Volume II: Rifles of the Manual Archive (you can still […]

You may have noticed a few changes to the right sidebar of the site recently – we have a couple new sponsors of Forgotten Weapons that I would like to welcome! Rock Island Auction Company […]

Well, here are a couple things we’ve noticed that you could use to alleviate that problem. Boris Karpa (who did a great job translating Dror testing reports for us a little while back) is running […]

We got a tip from Weaponsman that there’s a Brazilian G43 copy, called an M954, closing on GunBroker in a couple hours. These were made in .30-06, and are pretty rare items – and this […]