Semiauto Rifles
PCC Showdown: H&K SP5 vs Kalashnikov USA KP9 vs CMMG Banshee
Since SHOT Show this year, I have gotten three different 9mm carbines that are all interesting in their own ways. The Kalashnikov USA KP-9 is a virtual copy of the Russian Vityaz submachine gun, much […]
Single Shot Rifles
Hall Breechloading Carbine at RIA
The M1819 Hall rifle was the first breechloader adopted on a wide scale by a military force (the British Ferguson predated it, but was only made in small numbers). The Hall stayed in production on […]
Artillery
Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon from San Juan Hill
This Hotchkiss and its accessories are lot #1116 at Morphy’s April 2019 auction: Benjamin Hotchkiss was an American artillery designer who moved to Paris in 1867 in hopes of building a business for his improvements […]
“I’ve actually shot EM-2s in both .280 and 7.62” – possibly the one sentence that makes me green with envy . . .
1) Don’t you disrespect my M14!
2) It’s a miracle that any T48’s survived and they weren’t all scrapped
3) For a reference that thoroughly damns the Ordnance Corps, I refer you to
“Misfire: The Story of How America’s Small Arms Have Failed Our Military”
– https://www.amazon.com/Misfire-Story-Americas-Failed-Military/dp/0684193590
Just like to point out that the trigger guard on the L1A1 did in fact fold inside the pistol grip. There is a slot in the front of the grip, covered by a plate. You have to unscrew the plate, flip the guard inside and screw it back on.