Sweden - Forgotten Weapons

Book Review – Smith & Wesson Model 76 SMG by Frank Iannamico

December 16, 2018 Ian McCollum 16

Available from Amazon or direct from the publisher. Frank Iannamico’s new book on the Smith & Wesson Model 76 submachine gun is in fact a book about much more than just the Model 76. It begins […]

Overview of Swedish Gun Laws

September 27, 2018 Ian McCollum 0

Today I am joined by my friend Kristoffer to speak briefly about gun laws in Sweden while we take a break from the competition at Finnish Brutality 2018. As always, this is not intended to […]

Swedish Antiaircraft Artillery: Bofors 40mm Automatic Gun M1

August 24, 2018 Ian McCollum 20

Note: In the video I mistakenly describe this as a two-stamp NFA gun. It is actually deactivated, and thus does not require a tax stamp. Sorry for the mistake! RIA’s catalog page for this cannon […]

Swedish m/41B – Best Sniper Rifle of World War Two

June 16, 2018 Ian McCollum 30

The rifle in this video is coming up for auction here. Everything was going great in Sweden until 1940, when they looked up and realized that on one side they were next to a bunch […]

Lahti L-35: Finland’s First Domestic Service Automatic Pistol

April 23, 2018 Ian McCollum 21

When Finland decided to replace the Luger as its service handgun, they turned to Finland’s most famous arms designer, Aimo Lahti. After a few iterations, Lahti devised a short recoil semiautomatic pistol with a vertically […]

Snabb Semiauto Conversion of a Dutch Mannlicher

January 18, 2018 Ian McCollum 17

Snabb was a Swedish company created to market a system for converting bolt action rifles into semiautomatic rifles. The system was patented in the US in 1938, making this one of the very last attempts […]

Prototype Friberg/Kjellman Flapper-Locking Semiauto Rifle

December 22, 2017 Ian McCollum 11

The origins of flap-locking (as used in the G41(W), G43, DShK, DP, and RPD, among others) goes back to a Swedish Lieutenant Friberg in 1870, who patented the system. At that time, however, the fouling […]

The Swedish Suomi M-37/39 Submachine Gun

September 13, 2017 Ian McCollum 11

When the Swedish military decided that 1937 seemed like a pretty good time to be getting some new submachine guns, they arranged to purchase a version of the m/31 Suomi from their Finnish neighbors […]

InterArms G33/50: Not a Real Carbine

June 21, 2017 Ian McCollum 15

Among the many Swedish Mauser carbines imported into the United States is an interesting batch of guns marked “InterArms G33/50“. What are these actually? They are rifles imported by InterArms, of course, and they began […]

Swedish Mauser Carbines, m/94 and m/94-14

June 20, 2017 Ian McCollum 20

When Sweden decided to replace its Remington Rolling Block rifles with a more modern repeating rifle design, they tested models from Mauser, Mannlicher, Lee, and Krag. The Mauser 1893 was chosen as the winner of […]