Slow motion
SIG MKPS at the Range
Today we have the SIG MKPS out at the range – and WOW! I did not anticipate just how fast-firing of a submachine gun this is. Calculating from the high speed footage, it is running […]
Video
Submachine Guns
SIG MKPS: Possibly the Most Beautiful SMG Ever Made
SIG began making SMGs in the 1920s with a licensed copy of the Bergmann. In 1927 the license expired, and they began working on their own designs, the first of which was introduced as the […]
General Purpose MGs
FN MAG: Best of the Western GPMGs
The FN MAG (Mitrailleuse d’Appui Général – General Purpose Machine Gun) was designed by Ernest Vervier, who took over from Dieudonné Saive as FN’s lead military arms designer in 1954. The Swedish government approached FN […]
Semiauto Rifles
KE Arms KP9 Polymer Lower 9mm Receiver
KE Arms has released a 9mm polymer lower, based on the KP-15 AR lower. It is set up for Glock magazines, and makes for a nice lightweight and inexpensive base for a 9mm PCC…
Select-fire Rifles
Bigger is Better? The Bren 2 Battle Rifle (BR)
CZ has taken the Bren 2 design, and scaled it up to 7.62mm NATO as the Bren 2 BR (Battle Rifle). A decent number of military and security organizations are still interested in the larger […]
Semiauto Rifles
Infiltrating America: The Type 93 Chinese Assault Rifle
The Type 93 Chinese assault rifle is a development of the Type 56 Kalashnikov, produced by the People’s Liberation Army of the PRC. While the Type 93 designation suggests that the design originated in 1993, […]
Q&A
Q&A 59: Questions for a Gun Shop Owner w/ Kurt Stancl
Today we have a bunch of questions about gun shops, and I am joined by Kurt Stancl, of Bear Arms in Scottsdale AZ. 0:00:00 – Introduction 0:02:02 – How have online sales impacted the business? […]
Select-fire Rifles
H&R’s Prototype Simulator, M14, .22 Caliber, Mark I
Harrington & Richardson was one of the main contractors for the M14 rifle program, and they also had been a major producer of the M1 Garand rifle. In particular, H&R had produced a .22 rimfire […]
Electromagnetic Weapons
Arcflash Labs’ EMG-01B Handheld Gauss Pistol
The EMG-01B is a small portable rail gun made by Arcflash Labs. Introduced in 2017, it can throw magnetic dowel pins approximately 1/4″ x 3/4″ (6mm x 19mm) at about 150 fps (45m/s). It does […]
Prototype
m/26 Suomi: Aimo Lahti’s First Production Design
Aimo Lahti was the premier firearms designer, and the m/26 was his first significant design. Lahti was a Civil Guard armorer, and upon seeing the Lindelof copy of the Bergmann SMG in 1921 he thought […]