United States - Forgotten Weapons

ArcFlash Labs’ GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle

February 11, 2022 Ian McCollum 36

https://arcflashlabs.com/_accelerators/fully-assembled-guns/# The GR-1 “Anvil” is a portable, shoulder-fired gauss rifle made by Arcflash Labs. Yeah, it’s pretty awesome to be living in the future where we actually have real gauss rifles, isn’t it? First, some […]

The Reality of Gauss Rifles and Coil Guns w/ David Wirth of Arcflash Labs

February 9, 2022 Ian McCollum 34

David Wirth is one of the founders of Arcflash Labs, a small company developing “ultra-high energy pulsed power supplies”, which have applications in a variety of fields – but today we are talking about electromagnetic […]

2-Gun: An Old-School “Ring Sight” Optic

January 29, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

This month at the 2G-ACM match, I thought it would be interesting to try out a “Ring Sight”. This is the same style of optics used on the FN P90 – the manufacturer marketed it […]

LPC16: An AR With a Huge Helium-Neon Laser Built In

January 28, 2022 Ian McCollum 16

Laser Products Corporation got its start in 1979, with a laser sight mounted atop a Colt Trooper .357 Magnum revolver. Shortly thereafter they introduced a range of other small arms with lasers fitted, including the […]

Springfield Hellion at the Range: The Most Modern Bullpup

January 15, 2022 Ian McCollum 17

My previous experience shooting a VHS-2 was limited to a small indoor range, so I’ve been really looking forward to getting this Springfield Hellion out to a proper range. First up, we have a 2-Gun […]

Springfield Hellion: The VHS-2 Bullpup Comes to the US

January 14, 2022 Ian McCollum 47

Today we are taking a look at the Springfield Hellion, the semiautomatic US version of HS Produkt’s VHS-2 bullpup rifle. The VHS-2 development goes back almost 20 years, with a first VHS rifle and then […]

Stemple STG-34k at the Range

January 8, 2022 Ian McCollum 24

Today’s video is the Stemple STG-34k at the range…but if I’m going to be honest, it was mostly just an excuse for me to try it out for fun. 🙂 It’s definitely the least practical […]

Stemple Makes a Star Wars Blaster: the STG-34k

January 7, 2022 Ian McCollum 8

One of the best-looking versions of the Stemple is, I believe, the STG-34k. This was the result of BRP obtaining a whole bunch of MG-34 parts kits as part of a separate project to make […]

Airtronics PSRL: An American RPG (with demo shot…for real!)

December 27, 2021 Ian McCollum 33

Thanks to Jeff Folloder and Airtronics USA, I have a chance today to look at and test-fire a PSRL (Precision Shoulder-fired Rocket Launcher) – in essence, an American-made RPG-7. The rocket we are using here […]

The Thumb Trigger Concept Anew: Iron Horse’s TOR

December 22, 2021 Ian McCollum 30

The idea of a thumb trigger in place of a traditional index finger trigger has come up a number of times in firearms history (the Pieri carbines tested in France and Italy, the Winchester Thumb […]