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Year: 2012

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Guns that should have been

November 20, 2012 Ian McCollum 15

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 […]

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Select-fire Rifles

Last Ditch Innovation (Video)

November 19, 2012 Ian McCollum 38

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 […]

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Vintage photo

Vintage Saturday: Resistance in Style

November 17, 2012 Ian McCollum 7

This is a pretty well-known photo, but damn if it isn’t a good one.

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Conversion

Snabb Semiauto Conversion

November 16, 2012 Ian McCollum 19

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 […]

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Book review

Book Review: Mauser Military Rifles of the World

November 15, 2012 Ian McCollum 3

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 […]

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Semiauto pistol

Gabbet-Fairfax Mars Automatic Pistol

November 14, 2012 Ian McCollum 26

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”) […]

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Commentary

Machine Gun Corps Monument

November 13, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

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 […]

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Handgun

Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver

November 12, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

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 […]

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Heavy MGs

Vintage Saturday: Desperation

November 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 9

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 […]

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Machine pistol

Lercker machine pistol

November 9, 2012 Ian McCollum 30

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 […]

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