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Selling Some Duplicate Books
I am cleaning up the bookshelves, and have a number of duplicates that I don’t need. First come first served; flat $10 shipping to any order to cover shipping. Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, or check in […]
Bolt Action Rifles
AR-1 “Parasniper” – The First Armalite
The first rifle produced by Armalite began in 1952 as a project between the brothers-in-law, Charles Dorchester and George Sullivan (no relation to later Armalite engineer L. James Sullivan). Sullivan is the chief patent attorney […]
Prototype
Modern Stocked Pistol: B&T’s Universal Service Weapon (USW)
The genesis of the B&T USW was a two and a half hour car ride home from a youth hockey game, when Karl Brugger and a friend were thinking about how to improve police effectiveness […]
General Purpose MGs
H&K MG4: Germany’s New 5.56mm Squad Machine Gun
Full video including range footage is available on the History of Weapons & War streaming app: https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/mg4-4k Heckler & Koch released the MG4, a new 5.56mm squad machine gun in 2001. It was adopted by […]
Semiauto pistol
“Kevin” – A Czech Pocket Pistol With a Weird Delay Trick
The “Kevin” (sometimes called a ZP-98) was developed by Czech gunsmith Antonín Zendl and introduced at the IWA show in 2007. It was a micro-compact pocket pistol chambered for either .380 ACP or 9mm Makarov […]
Semiauto Rifles
GHM-9: B&T’s 9mm Budget Carbine (Well, Swiss Budget)
The GHM-9 is a 9mm PCC from B&T that was developed as an economized alternative to the APC-9. It uses the same grip assembly as the APC-9, but a smaller and simpler upper receiver and […]
Submachine Guns
Gerat Potsdam: Mauser Copies the Sten Gun
In the fall of 1944, the Mauser company was given a contract to develop drawings of a direct copy of the British Sten gun (code named Gerät Potsdam), and to manufacture 10,000 of them. In […]
Shotgun
Serbu Super Shorty: Is It Awesome or Just Dumb?
The Super Shorty is a pump action shotgun reduced to a 2-round tube capacity and a 6.5″ barrel made by Serbu Firearms. The first one was made in 1998 and since then Mark Serbu has […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Short Swiss Schmidt Rubins: M1900 Short Rifle & M1905 Cavalry Carbine
When the Swiss military went to make a short version of its M1896 rifle for cavalry, it realized that the early Schmidt-Rubin action had a problem: it was really, really long. With locking lugs all […]
Prototype
DSA’s Unique Titanium FAL Project
DS Arms got some billet titanium and decided to make a batch of titanium receivers and other parts. This turned out to be a nightmarish amount of work, and two of the receivers had to […]