Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Overkill
The German has a rather uncommon Erma MP-35, and judging from the can the unfortunate fellow in the grass was carrying magazines for a DP-28.
Germany
Light MGs
Zielfeuergerät 38 Training Machine Gun
The subject of training machine guns is one of the areas that is particularly difficult to find information on – most folks aren’t even aware of their existence. The one we’re looking at today, the […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Worst-Smelling Pillbox Evar
The gun is a Modele 1931 “Reibel” – basically a Chatellerault 24/29 converted for vehicle and fortification use. Photo provided by Max Popenker – thanks Max!
Handgun
Mauser Volkspistole
We have another experimental German WWII piece for you today, Mauser’s last-ditch “Volkspistole”. It was developed at the end of the war as an extremely inexpensive home guard weapon, although how much use a pistol […]
Select-fire Rifles
Syrian Sturmgewehr Cache
Allah ackbar indeed! Why can’t I ever find a storeroom full of Sturmgewehrs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EsCle4ooM0&feature=plcp If anyone reading this has contacts in Syria,you might consider recommending that they try to exchange them on some international market […]
Select-fire Rifles
Fallschirmjagergewehr FG-42 Video
The German FG-42 paratroop rifle was a very impressive design, managing to meet a very strict set of performance criteria. The first production model in particular was exceptionally light and compact, while still offering semi […]
Book review
Books, Magazines, and David Tubb
If you were interested in Bin Shih’s very nice book on Chinese firearms of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) but didn’t get one before they sold out, you’re in luck! He’s going to be running […]
Prototype
Caveat Emptor – “StG45 Prototype”
One of the fun parts of pursuing prototype and experimental firearms is that there isn’t much written or known about many of them – it’s like a great treasure hunt. Of course, the downside is […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Guns and Butter
He must have been an economics teacher before the war.
Light MGs
Chauchat Followup
We had a lot of feedback on Tuesday’s post on the CSRG Chauchat light machine gun, so I figured I should do a bit of followup today. Leszek in Poland sent us these photos of […]