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Home2024April

Month: April 2024

Submachine Guns

Type 100 / 44 (Late Pattern) Japanese SMG

April 17, 2024 Ian McCollum 41

The Japanese never really embraced submachine guns during and before World War Two. A series of development programs in the 1920s and 30s led nowhere, and there never really seems to have been much motivation […]

Select-fire Rifles

M14: America’s Worst Service Rifle – What Went Wrong?

April 15, 2024 Ian McCollum 138

While the US never adopted a significant variation of the M1 Garand (excluding sniper models), testing continued on new iterations and features throughout the war. By the time the war ended, the US military had […]

Conversion

A Guns to Save Lives: Winchester 1886 Line Thrower

April 14, 2024 Ian McCollum 5

Line-throwing devices have long been an important part of maritime safety, and many different have been guns adapted to launch ropes from shore to ship or ship to ship. Usually they are inexpensive obsolete surplus […]

Semiauto pistol

Lugers in Thailand: The Siamese Artillery Luger

April 13, 2024 Ian McCollum 2

In 1936 and 1937, Siam purchased a batch of several hundred new Luger pistols for the Bangkok Police, including 100 long-barreled lP08 Artillery Lugers. These were new production gun, but made with surplus WW1-era barrels, […]

Submachine Guns

Chinese Type 50 PPSh: Founding “Gun City” in Manchuria

April 12, 2024 Ian McCollum 1

One of the first new weapons adapted and used by the Chinese Peoples’ Liberation Army after the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war was the Type 50, a copy of the Soviet PPSh-41. The […]

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Commentary

What is a Battle Rifle?

April 10, 2024 Ian McCollum 129

“Battle rifle” is not a formally recognized term like “assault rifle”, but it is widely used, and I think it has a lot of utility. It is intended to differentiate between intermediate-caliber and full-power military […]

Revolver

Colt Viper: A Rare Snake and a Great Revolver

April 8, 2024 Ian McCollum 0

Colt has released seven different revolvers named after snakes, and they have become a popular niche collection for many people. The Python is by far the best known, but several others are very rare. One […]

Commentary

Fundamentals of LPVOs: Cheap vs Expensive

April 7, 2024 Ian McCollum 2

At SHOT Show this year I took some time to speak with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics (formerly of Primary Arms and Swampfox). Mike’s a friend and a true optics nerd, and I figured he […]

Competition

Boombox / Clarion Thermal at MOGO24: Zee Goggles! Zey Do Nuthink!

April 6, 2024 Ian McCollum 0

For my Passive Division run during the staff match portion of Moons Out Goons Out 2024, I used a borrowed prototype Boombox from Q, with an AGM Clarion thermal scope. The Boombox is essentially a […]

Semiauto pistol

Model 74 “Carpati”: Cugir’s Romanian Walther Clone

April 5, 2024 Ian McCollum 1

The Model 74 “Carpați” is a copy of the Walther PP made by the Cugir factory in Romania. The project began at the direction of the Romanian secret police, who delivered a worn out Walther […]

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