Uncategorized - Forgotten Weapons

Checking in with Apex Gun Parts

December 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

While we were at SAR West this past weekend, we of course took some time to check in with Jeff from Apex Gun Parts. We’ve been buying goodies from Jeff long before we started up […]

Downtime

December 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

As I’m sure a lot of you have noticed, we have been having some connectivity problems over the last several weeks. Traffic to the site has been growing quite a lot, and it has been […]

Rough, Rugged, Reliable! by Ronaldo Olive (originally published in Harris Publications’ FULL AUTO magazine) Think of a World War II military Jeep for a moment. Okay? Now,, what have you got in your mind?I can […]

Machine Gun Corps Monument

November 13, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

London has a whole lot of monuments, but there is one in particular that anyone into firearms history should visit, and that is the official monument to the Machine Gun Corps. The Corps was formed […]

French RSC Modele 1917 selfloading rifle

November 7, 2012 Ian McCollum 16

The French government had run a series of semiautomatic rifle trials in 1913 and had several designs with a lot of potential, like the A6 Meunier. In fact, most of the designs had dropped the […]

Machine Gun Manuals DVD on sale

November 7, 2012 Ian McCollum Comments Off

Remember, this week only our Machine Gun Manuals DVD is on sale at 30% off – pick up your copy before the sale ends!

DVD Winners!

October 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

Thanks to everyone who entered our DVD giveaway contest! Our lucky winners, chosen randomly from everyone who entered, are: Mark R. and Cory M. I’ve sent emails to each of you so I can get […]

Book Review: Deutsche Fertigungskennzeichen bis 1945

October 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

Anyone who has looked at German arms and militaria from WWII and the years prior will be familiar with the 3-letter (or number) code system used to obscure where production was taking place. The more […]

We Hit a Milestone – and a DVD Giveaway!

October 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

I was very happy to wake up to this on the site statistics yesterday morning: We’ve had more than a million visits since I started keeping track in June 2011! Thanks to everyone who has […]

Announcing the Machine Gun Manual Archive on DVD!

September 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

We’ve spent some time scouring through the Forgotten Weapons Archives, and found all the interesting machine gun manuals we have to put together on a single huge DVD. I’m very happy to announce that we […]