Select-fire Rifles
Chinese Type 56 Milled AK
One of the most common types of AK rifle in existence today is the Chinese Type 56 in its several variations, although very few of those rifles are in the United States in authentic full-auto […]
China
Bolt Action Rifles
North China Type 30
When the Japanese invasion of China intensified in 1937, Imperial reliance on Chinese puppet troops for duties like garrisoning cities. Before long an estimated 500,000-900,000 such men were under the command of the Japanese, in […]
Mystery
Bernardon-Martin 1909 Pistol in a Chinese Museum
Note: I’m slipping! I initially identified this as one of the mystery Chinese pistols, having not recognized it as a Bernardon-Martin. A bunch of folks in the comments did, though, and I have corrected the […]
Competition
Greener MkIII Police in a 2-Gun Shotgun Match (Video)
Every few years, there is a special 2-Gun match at my local club, using shotgun and pistol instead of rifle and pistol. The rules of this match are a bit different than most multigun competition […]
Machine pistol
Mauser “Schnellfeuer”, or Model 712 Machine Pistol
The Schnellfeuer, or Model 712, was Mauser’s answer to the Spanish production of selective fire C96 lookalikes. Just over 100,000 of these pistols were made by Mauser in the 1930s, mostly going to China (although […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Vintage Saturday: Mr. Lee Goes to China
Note the bandoliers of individual cartridges – these Lee-Metfords predate the adoption of charger clips, and would have been reloading one round at a time.
Handgun
Vintage Saturday: Liberator
Photo taken by John Brunner outside OSS headquarters in Kunming, 1945.
Rocket launcher
The Ubiquitous RPG-7 (Video)
The RPG-7 is pretty far from being a forgotten weapon, but I was not going to pass up an opportunity to take a closer look at a live one. This example is one of the […]
Semiauto pistol
Inside a Chinese Mystery Pistol
I recently did some horse trading with Chuck at GunLab, and he ended up with a couple of my Chinese Mystery Pistols. Today, he pulls one apart to look at the insides…and it’s not a […]
Machine pistol
Slow Motion: Mauser Schnellfeuer (Video)
Today’s slow motion video is a Mauser Schnellfeuer; the full-auto version of the C96 pistol made in the 1930s. Just over 100,000 of these were made, with the great majority being sold in China. It […]