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Heading out for Europe!
Well, I’m happy to say that the Forgotten Weapons crew here is flying out tomorrow morning for a 3-week trip through France, Belgium, and England. We are going to be visiting a bunch of great […]
Articles by Ian McCollum
Book review
Book Review: The Winchester-Lee Rifle
James Paris Lee began designing and patenting firearms in 1862, but it was not until 1875 that any of his designs were put into limited manufacture. He would ultimately see four of his rifles adopted […]
Manuals
Small Arms Design Literature
About a week ago, the guys over at Weaponsman were questioning the scarcity of published literature on conceptual small arms design. It seems to me that issue is more one of business competency than technical […]
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Japanese Type 97 Naval Flare Pistol
Yesterday we received an email from a reader named Michael, asking for information on an interesting rare piece he has – a Type 97 Japanese naval flare pistol: For folks who aren’t familiar with Japanese […]
Semiauto Rifles
Ljungman AG-42B
The AG-42 was the first semiauto rifle adopted by the Swedish army, as well as the first production rifle to use a direct gas impingement operating system. Today we’re taking a closer look at the […]
Heavy MGs
Model 1917 Machine Gun Cart
Are you looking for a good gift for the gun nut in your life who already has everything? Or perhaps you are the gun nut with everything, and you need a new project to undertake? […]
Book review
Book Review: Military Handguns of France 1858-1958
Since we looked at a couple French revolvers yesterday, it seems only appropriate to have a resource on them (and later French automatic pistols) today. Specifically, Military Handguns of France by Eugene Medlin and Jean […]
Handgun
Video: French Military Centerfire Revolvers
Today we’re look at the two main French military centerfire revolvers – the model 1873 and model 1892. These both served for many decades with French troop around the world, and they’re interesting designs. I […]
Artillery
Automatic cannon in the news
A couple piece of cannon news for you today, from fellow bloggers… Nic at The Rogue Adventurer has an interesting post on a Romanian AA cannon found being used in Libya. While it looks […]
Gunsmithing
Gahendra Gunsmithing Gets More Complicated
A little while back, I picked up a Gahendra rifle from IMA – the plan was to clean it up, make sure it was in safe firing condition, and do some shooting with it. Well, […]