Spain - Forgotten Weapons

Vintage Saturday: (The World is) Worth Fighting For

September 20, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

Ernest Hemingway on the lines with a Mosin-Nagant during the Spanish Civil War. Photo by Hemingway’s companion Robert Capa, dated November 5th, 1938. What better way to research a book than to actually join the […]

Calzada Bayo CB-51

May 1, 2014 Ian McCollum 20

Thanks to reader Barton and some connections in Spain, we have some outstanding photos of a couple experimental rifles from the post-WWII era before Spain adopted the CETME rifle. After the war, virtually every major […]

Charola-Anitua Photos

March 12, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

Recently a 7mm Charola-Anitua pistol showed up on GunBroker, with some pretty decent photos. I can’t afford to buy it, but I can afford to share the photos! The 7mm Charola-Anitua was made from 1900 […]

¡No Pasarán!

March 6, 2014 Ian McCollum 45

I’ve been doing some reading a researching on the Spanish Civil War in preparation for an upcoming month that will be dedicated to that conflict and the arms involved in it (which include virtually everything […]

Vintage Saturday: Militiawoman

February 15, 2014 Ian McCollum 24

Spanish militiawoman during the Civil War, with a Mauser rifle and what appears to be an early Star pistol (model 1919 possibly?)

JoLoAr at the Range

January 27, 2014 Ian McCollum 40

I had the chance to take a .380 caliber JoLoAr pistol out to the range recently, and took the video camera along: The JoLoAr pistol was a combination of a poor-selling and unremarkable Spanish blowback […]

Vintage Saturday: Captured

January 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 69

Antifascists holding a captured officer at gunpoint with a JoLoAr pistol during the Spanish Civil War. Check back Monday for a video on the JoLoAr!

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 […]

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 […]

Vintage Saturday: Premature Anti-Fascists

October 19, 2013 Ian McCollum 27

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.