United States - Forgotten Weapons

Arcflash Labs’ EMG-01B Handheld Gauss Pistol

March 26, 2022 Ian McCollum 12

The EMG-01B is a small portable rail gun made by Arcflash Labs. Introduced in 2017, it can throw magnetic dowel pins approximately 1/4″ x 3/4″ (6mm x 19mm) at about 150 fps (45m/s). It does […]

Radical Defense M249FVS: Laser Sintering Meets Lewis Gun

March 25, 2022 Ian McCollum 19

One of the problems with using suppressors on machine guns is that suppressors or generally much more susceptible to heat buildup than the guns themselves. In 2019, US SOCOM put out a request for a […]

MDRX Micron: A Truly Tiny SBR Bullpup

March 19, 2022 Ian McCollum 4

The MDR has been out in the market for six years now, and DesertTech has been making some improvements. The current production model I called the MDRX, to denote several incremental improvements that have been […]

Bushmaster Assault Rifle: A Stoner-Inspired 70s Carbine

March 14, 2022 Ian McCollum 13

Mack Gwinn was a US Army Special Forces officer in Vietnam (he retired from the service as a Captain) who had extensive experience carrying and using a Stoner 63A. When he returned home, he decided […]

Ian’s Customs: Lage Max11A1/15 Light Machine Gun

March 12, 2022 Ian McCollum 11

I bought an M11A1 machine pistol several years ago, when I first heard about the Lage Max11/15 project (I chose the M11A1 because I wanted the shortest registered receiver possible). Well, the M11A1 version of […]

Lage Max11/15: A Conversion From Machine Pistol to LMG

March 9, 2022 Ian McCollum 9

Lage Manufacturing has been making conversion uppers for MAC-pattern machine pistols for a long time. They have a bunch of 9mm uppers in a variety of styles, some using magazines in the grip and some […]

Delta Force STI 2011: Competition Meets Operations

March 7, 2022 Ian McCollum 17

In the early 2000s (specifically 2006/2007, I believe) US Delta Force decided to replace its .45 ACP 1911 pistols with something having a larger magazine capacity. After testing a number of different platform initially, they […]

UC-9 at the Range

March 5, 2022 Ian McCollum 5

Yesterday we looked at the development and mechanics of the UC-9 folding sneaky submachine gun. Today we are out at the range with it – how does this thing actually handle? Well, actually better than […]

The UC-9: Like a Sneaky, Extra-Boxy Uzi

March 4, 2022 Ian McCollum 9

The UC-9 is a really interesting example of the market distortion caused by the 1986 Hughes Amendment. This is essentially an Uzi converted into a form factor than doesn’t look like a gun when folded […]

M60: Its Purpose, Mechanics, and Development

February 25, 2022 Ian McCollum 115

The concept for the M60 began at the end of World War Two, when US Ordnance officers became very interested in the German concept of a universal machine gun (originally conceived by the Danes, but […]