The FAL in Cuba: Left Arm of the Communist World?

October 7, 2024 Ian McCollum 42

In 1958, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista ordered some 35,000 FAL rifles from FN, including both regular infantry rifles have heavy-barreled FALO light machine guns. Before any of them could arrive, however, Batista fled the country […]

James Bond’s Shoulder Holsters: Good, Bad, and Ugly

October 6, 2024 Ian McCollum 7

Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Today Caleb Daniels – author of Licensed Troubleshooter – is back with […]

Mini-Ero: The Croatian Hybrid Small Uzi

October 5, 2024 Ian McCollum 16

After producing the Ero, a nearly exact copy of the Israeli Uzi, the Croatia firm Arma started making some design changes. With the Mini-Ero, they picked a size in between that of the Mini-Uzi and […]

Romanian 1930s Mosin Carbine Conversion

October 4, 2024 Ian McCollum 2

Romania had more than a million rifles in its inventory after World War One, but they were mused between Mannlicher 88/90, Mannlicher 95, Mosin Nagant, and Berthier patterns – and they were almost all rifles […]

Samostril Netsch: Bizarre Prototype Czech Automatic Rifle

October 2, 2024 Ian McCollum 0

When Czechoslovakia began looking for new small arms in the early 1920s, one of the things they were interested in was a “samostřil” – something akin to the automatic rifle in English. A select-fire weapon […]

Literary James Bond’s Best Pistol: the ASP

September 30, 2024 Ian McCollum 30

Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Today Caleb Daniels, author of “Licensed Troubleshooter”, is joining me to talk […]

Gothic Serpent: Shughart M14 Clone & Delta 1911 at the 2-Gun Match

September 27, 2024 Ian McCollum 9

This is your last chance to win this awesome (if malfunctioning) Shughart M14 Clone! https://www.fanathem.com/forgottenweapons DEADLINE to ENTER is TONIGHT 09/27/2024 @ 11:59 PM PST Today I decided to do a Gothic Serpent memorial 2-gun […]

The Mystery of James Bond’s Long-Barrel .45 Car Gun

September 25, 2024 Ian McCollum 59

Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Today Caleb Daniels joins me again to discuss one of the mysteries […]

Steyr-Solothurn S2-200: the Austrian MG30 and Hungarian 31M

September 23, 2024 Ian McCollum 9

The S2-200 was developed by Louis Stange at the Rheinmetall company in Germany in the late 1920s. Because Germany was not allowed to be doing this sort of arms development at the time, Rheinmetall bought […]

First Gen Walther P99 at the BUG Match

September 21, 2024 Ian McCollum 0

Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond is live on Kickstarter now – check it out for lots of super cool exclusive options! Last week Tom and I did a BUG match with 4 different […]