Submachine Guns
Vintage Saturday: Overkill
The German has a rather uncommon Erma MP-35, and judging from the can the unfortunate fellow in the grass was carrying magazines for a DP-28.
Month: September 2012
Light MGs
Colt CMG-2 Light Machine Gun Video and Manual
During the 1960s, the Colt company was looking to help market the M-16 rifle to military forces by pairing it with a light machine gun. They were going after the exact same market segment as […]
Book review
Book Review: Volcanic Firearms
The Volcanic repeating pistol was the first direct step along the development path of the lever-action rifle that became an icon of the American West. Introduced before the advent of modern brass-cased cartridges, the Volcanic was […]
Light MGs
Zielfeuergerät 38 Training Machine Gun
The subject of training machine guns is one of the areas that is particularly difficult to find information on – most folks aren’t even aware of their existence. The one we’re looking at today, the […]
Commentary
A Minor Controversy Over Cartridges
We’re having a bit of a friendly disagreement over cartridges here, and I’m curious to hear some unbiased (or at least differently biased) opinions from you guys. Suppose you were putting together a new, cool […]
Light MGs
Announcing the Machine Gun Manual Archive on DVD!
We’ve spent some time scouring through the Forgotten Weapons Archives, and found all the interesting machine gun manuals we have to put together on a single huge DVD. I’m very happy to announce that we […]
cannon
Vintage Saturday: Danish Technical
Yep, it’s a 20mm Madsen automatic cannon – circa 1936. And check out that bull bar in front!
Medium MGs
Fiat-Revelli M1935
So a week or two ago, we took a look at the Italian Fiat-Revelli M1914 – a particularly funky machine gun. The Italian military put up with it through World War I because they didn’t […]
Movie review
Movie Review: The City of Life and Death
The Second Sino-Japanese War is a relatively unknown part of the Second World War here in the US. Japanese troops invaded Manchuria in 1931, and by 1937 sporadic skirmishes had evolved into a full-scale war […]
Medium MGs
Italian Perino Machine Gun
The Perino is a gun that really should have been adopted, but wasn’t. Its development began in 1901 when Giuseppe Perino (an Italian Army officer) patented the design for a recoil-operated machine gun with a […]