Commentary
Guns that should have been
There are some guns that weren’t ever built, but really should have been. Like a paratrooper’s MP44. The shorty version of the AK is extremely cool, and it only stands to reason that a shorty […]
Year: 2012
Select-fire Rifles
Last Ditch Innovation (Video)
I’m very happy today to present a video we did in cooperation with Oleg Volk, which I’ve titled “Last Ditch Innovation”. It is a look at two late-WW2 German prototype rifles which are the evolutionary […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Resistance in Style
This is a pretty well-known photo, but damn if it isn’t a good one.
Conversion
Snabb Semiauto Conversion
A reader named Roy sent us a link to a very interesting system for converting bolt action rifles to semiauto function. One of them was sold back in 2009 at auction, and (interestingly) the exact […]
Book review
Book Review: Mauser Military Rifles of the World
One of the areas of rifle collecting that is easy (and cheap) to get into and very difficult (and expensive) to master is that of Mausers. Literally dozens of countries used Mausers in scores of […]
Semiauto pistol
Gabbet-Fairfax Mars Automatic Pistol
The Mars pistol was a development of the turn of the century that would really be more at home in a Jules Verne novel (I would suggest the title “One Thousand Footpounds in a Handgun”) […]
Commentary
Machine Gun Corps Monument
London has a whole lot of monuments, but there is one in particular that anyone into firearms history should visit, and that is the official monument to the Machine Gun Corps. The Corps was formed […]
Handgun
Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver
The Webley-Fosbery was an early automatic handgun based on a revolver design. The top half of the frame was able to slide back under recoil, recocking the hammer and indexing the next round in the […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Desperation
Tomorrow is Armistice Day, and we should all take a few quiet moments to reflect on the nature of war. For all its glamorization, war is the tragic and cruel destruction of life and we […]
Machine pistol
Lercker machine pistol
We don’t have very much information on today’s forgotten weapon, which is an Italian machine pistol designed by a gunsmith named Lercker. He worked for Beretta, but also had his own shop, where he designed […]