Sweden - Forgotten Weapons

Carl Gustav m/42: A 20mm Recoilless Antitank Rifle

April 21, 2017 Ian McCollum 38

The Swedish Pansarvärnsgevär fm/42 made by the Carl Gustav company was an interesting early hybrid antitank weapon – a recoilless rifle firing solid armor-piercing projectiles. It used a 20x180mm case, propelling the 108g (1650gr) bullet […]

Swedish Hamilton Trials Pistol (Video)

January 21, 2016 Ian McCollum 23

The Hamilton was a handgun entered into the Swedish military pistol trials of 1903, where it competed against guns like the Luger and Colt/Browning 1903. The Hamilton was a simply blowback action chambered for 6.5mm […]

FFV-890C: The Swedish Service Rifle That Never Was

December 12, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Seth Cane has previously written a 3-part series of articles for us on the Galil, which you can see here: Galil SAR, Galil AR, and Galil ARM. He is now following that with an in-depth […]

Danish Madsen-Ljungman Rifle

December 8, 2014 Ian McCollum 7

Thanks to reader John D, we have a chance today to look at a very scarce Danish-made copy of the AG-42B Ljungman rifle. The Madsen company in Denmark made about 50 of these rifles for […]

Reproduction Nordenfelt Gun

December 5, 2014 Ian McCollum 21

A few days ago I was at a small machine gun shoot (which wound up being a bit larger than I’d expected), and was happily surprised to discover that one of the attendees had brought […]

7.62 mm PSG LANO Sniper Rifle

October 22, 2014 Ian McCollum 12

Today’s post is more modern than most of what we usually cover, but it is about a rifle for which very little information is available. It is a Swedish report translated by Arne Bergkvist – […]

Swanström 1882 Automatic Pistol

October 10, 2014 Ian McCollum 25

Today’s post was written by a Swedish reader named Arne Bergkvist, about a very early Swedish automatic pistol I had not been aware of. It is particularly interesting as one of relatively few examples of […]

Reader Questions: 6.5×55 Chamber, M47 Clips, Side-Mounted Oprods

March 25, 2014 Ian McCollum 11

Today I’m answering some questions sent in last week – I think this will be a fun and interesting regular feature for the site. If you have a question you’ve been wondering about, please email […]

Prototype Clausius Model 1905?

August 30, 2013 Ian McCollum 14

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a series of pistols designed by a German inventor named Claus Claudius, which began with a long-recoil design in 1895. He then progressed to a floating […]

The Husqvarna M 40 Pistol

August 16, 2013 Ian McCollum 160

Today we have a guest post by Peter Rasmussen on some of the history of the Husqvarna M40 pistol, also commonly called the Lahti. We will cover the mechanical aspects of the pistol in a […]