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Livestream with Ian and his Dad Tonight!
Last chance today to get the purple cover edition! To celebrate the last two hours of the Pistols of the Warlords launch, I have Shanghai’d my father into coming down to join me in a […]
Month: June 2021
Semiauto pistol
Chinese Warlord Pistols: The Huge Shanxi .45 ACP Broomhandle
The “Pistols of the Warlords Kickstarter ends Friday night; don’t miss out! The best known and most highly valued of the Warlord Era Chinese pistols is undoubtedly the .45 ACP copy of the C96 Mauser. […]
Heavy MGs
The Drama and Mystery of the Goryunov Machine Gun
This guest post authored by Andrey Ulanov. In the minds of Western people, the inhabitants of the USSR may sometime look like ants; a large mass working towards one great goal without personal ambition. This, of […]
Feeding devices
How Does It Work: Clips! (Not Magazines)
Today we are looking at clips and how they work. There are two different types; Mannlicher-style and Mauser-style. Mannlicher clips were introduced circa 1885, and are also known as en bloc or packet loading clips. […]
Prototype
Prototype Johnson Model R Military Rifle
When Melvin Johnson’s rifle design was first going through US military testing in 1938, it was set up to use box magazines. These magazines were a problem – they were not quite fully perfected, and […]
Semiauto pistol
Finland’s First Domestic Handgun: the Ahlberg
In the wake of Finland gaining its independence, small arms were much in demand for the armed forces. Many rifles had been taken from Russian stockpiles in Finland, but not many handguns. Hugo Ahlberg ran […]
Competition
Back-Up Gun Match Teaser with an MR-73
It came out recently that the Beretta Group has purchased Chapuis, the French manufacturer of the legendary MR73 revolvers. A bunch of people have asked me if I’m getting one of the Beretta-imported guns, and […]
Crude Copies
Chinese Warlord Pistols: Massive FN 1900 Copies in .30 Mauser
It’s not too late to join the “Pistols of the Warlords” Kickstarter! The armies of Warlord Era China had quite a fondness for the FN 1900 pistol, but they also made extensive use of the […]
Commentary
The M1 Garand’s Mysterious 7th Round Stoppage
The M1 Garand ran great in testing, but as soon as Springfield began to crank out production-line guns a mysterious problem appeared. If the top round in the clip was on the right-hand side, the […]
Antiques
The Crazy Guns of the Winchester-Bannerman Pump Action Lawsuit
Today I’m at the Cody Firearms Museum, taking a look at two of the guns that were used in the court case between Francis Bannerman and the Winchester company – a prototype Magot pump-action rifle […]