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Semiauto pistol

H&K P7 Family: Pistols for Gun Cognoscenti

January 16, 2019 Ian McCollum 69
Developed in the 1980s in response to a need for new West German police sidearms, the H&K P7 is one of the most mechanically unusual pistols to have been commercially successful in recent decades. It […]
Commentary

I Found a Machine Gun: What Should I Do?

January 15, 2019 Ian McCollum 19
There are thousands of machine guns currently in the National Firearms Act registry registered to people born before 1900. Think about that for a moment – every one of those owners is deceased, and those […]
Semiauto pistol

La Lira: A Spanish Copy of the Mannlicher 1901

January 14, 2019 Ian McCollum 16
The Spanish firm of Garate Anitua y Cia manufactured this copy of the Mannlicher 1901/1905 pistol for just a brief period around 1910. It is not a straight copy, as the Mannlicher was chambered for […]
Machine pistol

Shooting the Stechkin: How Does It Measure Up?

January 12, 2019 Ian McCollum 24
I have been curious to try shooting a Stechkin machine pistol for a while, and now thanks to Movie Armaments Group in Toronto, I have a chance to! I hate to be a downer, but […]
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Machine pistol

Stechkin APS: The Soviet Machine Pistol

January 11, 2019 Ian McCollum 19
The APS is a machine pistol developed by Igor Stechkin in the late 1940s and adopted by the Soviet Union in 1951, basically at the same time as the Makarov pistol. The Stechkin and Makarov […]
Reproduction

Semiauto M2 Hyde Reproduction: The Interim US WW2 Subgun

January 9, 2019 Ian McCollum 37
George Hyde designed the gun that would eventually be adopted as the M2 submachine gun in the late 1930s, and it was first tested at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in October of 1939. At that time, […]
Ammunition

Ammo Evaluation: Romanian 8mm Mauser

January 8, 2019 Ian McCollum 15
Towards the end of the Cold War, Romania was a major exporter of arms and ammunition on the world market. Today we are looking at Romanian pattern 1971 8mm Mauser ammunition, made between 1972 and […]
Semiauto pistol

H&K P8A1: The Bundeswehr’s USP

January 7, 2019 Ian McCollum 57
Thanks to my friends at Bear Arms in Scottsdale, we have an H&K P8A1 to take a look at today – the current Bundeswehr issue version of the USP. Chambered for 9x19mm and adopted in […]
Book review

Book Review: AK47 – The Grim Reaper (Second Edition)

January 6, 2019 Ian McCollum 16
The expanded second edition of Frank Iannamico’s “AK47: The Grim Reaper” is a hefty 1100-page tome which tackles the ambition goal of being a single reference for all things Kalashnikov. Ot begins with a section […]
Select-fire Rifles

Evolution of the Dutch-Made AR10

January 5, 2019 Ian McCollum 25
The AR-10 rifle was developed in the United States (Hollywood California, specifically) by Eugene Stoner, but the Armalite company did not have a suitable large scale manufacturing facility to produce the number of guns they […]

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