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Desert 2-Gun: 108 Fahrenheit With a WWSD Commando

August 13, 2022 Ian McCollum 15

In may last full-match opportunity to practice for Finnish Brutality, I brought my WWSD Commando (10.5″ barrel) and an Arex Delta out (my guns for Finland are already on their way across the Atlantic). The […]

Innovative and Interesting: Tinck Arms Perun X16

August 12, 2022 Ian McCollum 43

Don’t miss Bloke of the Range’s video of the X-16: The Tinck Arms Perun X-16 (distributed in the US by AEA Arms) is a much more interesting rifle than I expected from an initial glance. […]

Utreon: Good Video Hosting for Both Viewers & Creators

August 11, 2022 Ian McCollum 10

https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ I have mentioned Utreon before, but I want to take a moment to do so again. The site continues to grow and improve, and it has a bunch of features that are actually better […]

Poland’s Problematic First SMG: The wz.39 Mors

August 10, 2022 Ian McCollum 9

Designed by Piotr Wilniewczyca and Jan Skrzypinski starting in 1936, the Mors was Poland’s first domestic SMG. Polish police forces had purchased Thompsons and Suomi in the 1920s and 1930s, but the military still had […]

Before the High Power was the FN Grand Rendement

August 8, 2022 Ian McCollum 34

The Browning High Power story begins with a French 1921 request for a new military pistol. FN engineer Dieudonné Saive developed a double stack, single feed magazine and John Browning adapted a Browning 1903 pistol […]

ArcFlash Labs EMG-02 CoilGun: Making SciFi Weapons Into Reality

August 6, 2022 Ian McCollum 20

ArcFlash Labs has come out with a new coil gun design that takes the best elements of their underpowered EMG-01 and their overly bulky GR-1 Anvil and melded them into a much handier EMG-02. This […]

L39A1: British Service Target Rifle Before the L42A1

August 5, 2022 Ian McCollum 4

The story of the conversion of the Lee Enfield to 7.62mm NATO would not be complete without the L39A1. This is essentially the civilian competition version of what would become the L42A1. It was actually […]

Ask Ian – What Was the Best WW2 Rifle Cartridge?

August 4, 2022 Ian McCollum 97

From crablegs21 on Utreon: “In your opinion and in hindsight, which country had the most optimized cartridge for the their primary infantry rifle for WWII? Additionally, which country would have benefited most by switching to […]

Spanish M43: The Worst Sniper Rifle Ever Made

August 3, 2022 Ian McCollum 13

The standard Spanish infantry rifle from 1943 until the adoption of the CETME was the M43, an 8mm Mauser short rifle made at the La Coruña arsenal. As is fairly common, a sniper rifle variant […]

Anti-Gun Partisan Lawfare? GWACS Sues KE Arms et al.

August 2, 2022 Ian McCollum 10

There have been a lot of questions raised about the ongoing lawsuit between GWACS Armory LLC and KE Arms (plus Brownells, Russell Phagan, Sinistral Shooting Technologies, and Shawn Nealon) – so I figured I ought […]