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Moons Out 2026 Night Rifle Match by Nocturn Industries (Night 2)

March 14, 2026 Ian McCollum 0

Moons Out is the premier annual night vision rifle match, held at the Echo Valley Training Center in West Virginia. This year I am shooting in the Passive division, using a CMMG Banshee 9mm carbine […]

Moons Out 2026 Night Rifle Match by Nocturn Industries (Night 1)

March 13, 2026 Ian McCollum 0

Moons Out is the premier annual night vision rifle match, held at the Echo Valley Training Center in West Virginia. This year I am shooting in the Passive division, using a CMMG Banshee 9mm carbine […]

Madsen Model 1945: A Rather Unusual SMG

March 9, 2026 Ian McCollum 20

At the end of World War Two, the Danish Madsen company wanted to replace its production of licensed Suomi submachine guns with a design of its own. The result was the Model 1945, a quite […]

Will FRTs Kill Machine Gun Values? (feat. DIAS)

March 7, 2026 Ian McCollum 32

When bump stocks made their appearance on the market, people suggested that they might cause a drop in the value of registered transferrable machine guns. That didn’t happen, largely because bump stocks were tricky to […]

Eugene Stoner’s Future Assault Rifle Concept (F.A.R.C.)

March 6, 2026 Ian McCollum 57

After developing the AR-15 with Armalite, Eugene Stoner worked for a number of different companies. In 1972 he cofounded Ares Inc, where he and his partners worked on a wide variety of weapons platforms. Their […]

Adventures in Surplus! Type 38 Arisaka Carbine in World War One

March 4, 2026 Ian McCollum 8

“Forged in Snow”, my book on Finnish small arms, is available for pre-order right now along with all the other cool options at: https://www.headstamppublishing.com In the fall of 1914 it became apparent that the minor […]

Civil War Gwyn & Campbell Carbines (aka Cosmopolitan, Union, & Grapevine)

March 2, 2026 Ian McCollum 10

The first version of this carbine was the Cosmopolitan, designed and patented by Henry Gross in 1859 and manufactured by Edward Gwyn and Abner Campbell. It is a single-shot .52 caliber carbine that loads from […]

Q&A February 2026: Drones, AI, 6.5mm Cartridges, and More

February 27, 2026 Ian McCollum 14

Today’s Q&A is sponsored by Kyrö – get 10% off all their spirits with code FORGOTTENWHISKY10 at: https://www.kyrodistillery.com 01:05 – Guns from Peru JoLoAr video: https://youtu.be/c9JfodMKlBY 03:23 – Why not blow-forward bullpups? AK-53 video: https://youtu.be/-ykmqUFJWAw […]

Mauser M90 DA: Not Mauser and Not a High Power

February 25, 2026 Ian McCollum 10

Our book on Hungarian AKs, “Rifles on the Danube”, is available here: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/danube-book In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mauser firm was not in good shape. It had no new products, and its […]

Aimpoint’s First Tube Optics: 2000, 3000, & 5000

February 23, 2026 Ian McCollum 2

https://youtu.be/I786pgkby_I Aimpoint introduced its first tubular red dot sight in 1985, the Aimpoint 2000. They were still making direct rail-mounted optics like the Aimpoint Electronic, but recognized the customer demand for a sight that could […]