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Spanish Fusil M32 Sistema MR Manual

December 18, 2013 Ian McCollum 12

Thanks to reader Carlos in Spain, we have a manual on a very obscure Spanish self-loading rifle, the Sistema MR M1932, to share today. The only other information I have been able to find on […]

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Semiauto pistol

Bergmann-Mars 1903/1908 Pistol

November 25, 2013 Ian McCollum 19

The military breakthrough for Bergmann finally came in 1903 with a new locking system for the pistol, designed by Louis Schmeisser (who had also designed the previous Bergmann handguns). In 1901, Schmeisser developed the new […]

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Machine pistol

Vintage Saturday: Premature Anti-Fascists

October 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 26

Canadian volunteers of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, armed with with grenades and Mauser Schnellfeuer machine pistols or (more likely) Spanish-made copies thereof.

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Matchlock

Fighting Fair is Fighting Stupid

June 9, 2013 Ian McCollum 22

An excerpt from Guns on the Early Frontiers, on the subject of Spanish matchlock muskets in the colonial Americas: In 1576, a Captain Solis, commander of the Garrison at San Felipe, in the vicinity of […]

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Revolver

Getting That Last One…

May 28, 2013 Ian McCollum 28

No at matter how close you think you are, it seems that a proper gun collection can never really be complete. The closer you get to having a one of each necessary example of whatever […]

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Book review

Book Review: Astra Automatic Pistols

February 28, 2013 Ian McCollum 9

Our book today isn’t particularly flashy or exciting, but it is a solid piece of research. It is Astra Automatic Pistols by Leonardo Antaris – and the subject is pretty self-explanatory. Antaris follow a simply […]

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Light MGs

Vintage Saturday: Maxim-Tokarev

October 27, 2012 Ian McCollum 20

Reader Ruy has sent us this great photo of a very unusual gun in action in the Spanish Civil War – a Maxim-Tokarev “light” machine gun.

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Handgun

Spanish Eibar/Ruby Pistols

October 19, 2012 Ian McCollum 10

Back at the beginning of the 20th century, Spain had a significant number of relatively small gunmaking shops throughout its northern Basque area. The area has been known for its metalworking resources and prowess for […]

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Semiauto pistol

The Astra 903 – Nothing New in Advertising

November 2, 2011 Ian McCollum 7

Maybe it’s just me, but I always get a kick out of really over-the-top vintage advertising. I think that we can agree that the Astra 900 series is (and always has been) a nifty family […]

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