Handgun
Japanese Hamada Pistol
A couple weeks ago, the folk at Weaponsman sent us a photo of an odd pistol on display – unlabeled – at the Special Forces Museum at Fort Bragg. They were wondering if we know […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Light MGs
Vintage Tuesday: Bren Gun at Tobruk
I was up late working, and suffering from writer’s block. So today we have a special edition of Vintage Saturday, on a Tuesday. Whatever problems you may be facing today, they aren’t anywhere near as […]
Submachine Guns
Hotchkiss Universal Video
The Hotchkiss Universal is a pretty interesting submachine gun, despite its rather clumsy appearance. The overriding design intent was to make a very compact folding carbine, and Hotchiss certainly met that objective. However, the gun […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Japanese Holdouts on Mars!
Okay, it’s actually from 1940, at the Battle of Zaoyang Yichang in central China. Note the funky hopper-fed Type 11 LMG.
Accessories
My Gun Database Software
Here at ForgottenWeapons, we have a pretty sizable reference collection that we use to study weapons designs. If pressed, we can rattle off its contents pretty well from memory, but it is important to have […]
Book review
Russian Hand-to-Hand Combat Manual
It has come to our attention that our friend Boris Karpa – who helped us out translating a batch of test reports on the Dror LMG – has released his first work on Amazon. It’s […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Lebel and Berthier Manuals
Since I spent yesterday talking about my new Turkish converted Berthier rifle, I figured it would be a decent idea to upload a couple manuals for the mainstay rifles of the French Army during WWI, […]
Bolt Action Rifles
New Addition to the Collection
One of the great things about collecting old guns is that there is such a huge variety out there – there’s always something new around the corner that you didn’t know about before. Scores of […]
Handgun
Mauser Volkspistole
We have another experimental German WWII piece for you today, Mauser’s last-ditch “Volkspistole”. It was developed at the end of the war as an extremely inexpensive home guard weapon, although how much use a pistol […]
Vintage photo
Vintage Saturday: Is It Us, Or Did Gravity Get Stronger?
At first glance you wonder, “Why are those British sailors crawling around with their ship’s anchor?” Then you realize that they’re not sailors, and it’s actually a Colt 1895. The distinction may be lost on […]