Commentary
Teri from NambuWorld.com
While we were at the SAR West show this year, we had the chance to chat with Teri, who runs NambuWorld.com. Teri is a Canadian collector who took a longtime interest in Japan and built […]
Video
Commentary
Lugers and Mausers and Suppressors (oh my!)
Back when I reviewed Geoffrey Sturgess’ recently released Luger compendium, I had mentioned that it came with a neat documentary on the development of the Luger. The film is 74 minutes long, and is geared […]
Submachine Guns
Comparison Video: MP41 & Beretta 38/44
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 […]
Light MGs
Colt CMG-2 Light Machine Gun Video and Manual
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 […]
Manual machine guns
Five-Barrel Nordenfelt Video
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
Book Review: Italy’s Battle Rifle
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
Book Review and a Refinishing Discount
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 […]
Select-fire Rifles
Fallschirmjagergewehr FG-42 Video
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
Book Review: The World’s Assault Rifles
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 […]
Video
The Institute of Military Technology
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 […]