Vintage Saturday: A St Etienne in the Argonne
Single-shot Pistol
Lepage Wax-Bullet Dueling Pistols
In the early years of the 20th century, before the Great War tempered society’s interest in the martial arts, dueling came into the popular vogue. Not the lethal kind, but rather a more sporting style […]
General Purpose MGs
Darne Model 1933: An Economic & Modular Interwar MG
The Darne company was one of relatively few private arms manufacturers in France, best known for shotguns. During World War One they got into the machine gun trade, making licensed Lewis guns for the French […]
Select-fire Rifles
French Marine Commandos with CETME Rifles
I was doing some reading up on the early roller-delayed rifles (in Blake Stevens’ exquisitely technical and detailed book Full Circle: A Treatise on Roller Locking) and came across this very cool story, which I […]
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