Video - Forgotten Weapons

Comparison Video: MP41 & Beretta 38/44

November 5, 2012 Ian McCollum 8

We had the chance to shoot a couple of the lesser-known submachine guns used in World War II, a German MP41 and an Italian Beretta 38/44. Both are pretty typically submachine guns, firing 9mm Luger […]

Colt CMG-2 Light Machine Gun Video and Manual

September 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 8

During the 1960s, the Colt company was looking to help market the M-16 rifle to military forces by pairing it with a light machine gun. They were going after the exact same market segment as […]

Five-Barrel Nordenfelt Video

September 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 14

While we were visiting the Institute of Military Technology, we took a few minutes to check out their two 5-barrel Nordenfelt guns and chat with Joe from GardnerGuns.com about them. The Nordenfelt was one of […]

Book Review: Italy’s Battle Rifle

September 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

We just got in a copy of Russ Arendell and Steve Woodrum’s new book on the Carcano, Italy’s Battle Rifle: Story of the Mannlicher-Carcano Series of Rifles. It’s the most useful reference book on the Carcano […]

Book Review and a Refinishing Discount

August 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

As always, we have a book review to look at today, but we also have a neat video we put together for GunLab on hydroprint refinishing. On a recent trip down to Florida we had […]

Fallschirmjagergewehr FG-42 Video

August 6, 2012 Ian McCollum 23

The German FG-42 paratroop rifle was a very impressive design, managing to meet a very strict set of performance criteria. The first production model in particular was exceptionally light and compact, while still offering semi […]

Book Review: The World’s Assault Rifles

August 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas Nelson’s The World’s Assault Rifles is always one of the first books we turn to for information on automatic rifles. At 1200+ pages, it’s a huge tome and a massive […]

The Institute of Military Technology

July 30, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

We had the privilege of spending a couple days last week in Florida, attending the first of many seminars to be held by the Institute of Military Technology on firearms history and design. This particular […]

Book Review: Automatwaffen II

July 26, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

It’s a bit of a different book review today – since we’ve been looking at Swiss arms all week (and there’s a really unique one coming up tomorrow), we needed to find a book on […]

EM2 Video

July 16, 2012 Ian McCollum 24

I offer our Facebook fans the choice of which video they would like to see today, and the result was overwhelmingly the British EM2 rifle. These were made in both .280/30 and 7.62 NATO calibers, […]