Semiauto pistol
1938 Swedish Army Trials Luger
Lot 524 in the September 2019 RIA auction. Sweden tested the Luger in 1904, along with all the major semiauto pistols available at the time. The Luger was found to be the most accurate gun […]
Sweden
Shotgun
Shooting the Sjogren Inertial Shotgun
When I filmed this, I had limited time and figured I would do the shooting first and then film the history and disassembly of the gun afterwards. Alas, I ran out of time and never […]
Book review
Book Review – Smith & Wesson Model 76 SMG by Frank Iannamico
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 […]
Commentary
Overview of Swedish Gun Laws
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 […]
Artillery
Swedish Antiaircraft Artillery: Bofors 40mm Automatic Gun M1
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 […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Swedish m/41B – Best Sniper Rifle of World War Two
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 […]
Semiauto pistol
Lahti L-35: Finland’s First Domestic Service Automatic Pistol
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 […]
Conversion
Snabb Semiauto Conversion of a Dutch Mannlicher
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
Prototype Friberg/Kjellman Flapper-Locking Semiauto Rifle
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 […]
Submachine Guns
The Swedish Suomi M-37/39 Submachine Gun
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 […]