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Articles by Ian McCollum
Semiauto pistol
Frommer 1910 pistol
One of our readers on the Facebook page asked if we had any information on the Frommer Stop pistol a couple days ago. We don’t (at the moment) – but we do have a couple […]
Book review
Video Book Review: Mexican Military Arms, by James Hughes
James Hughes’ Mexican Military Arms is a pretty good book on a subject not often written about. It covers all the rifles used by the Mexican Army (both locally designed and purchased elsewhere) from the […]
General Purpose MGs
Greg from Allegheny Arsenal on the Lafette Mount
We met up with Greg – who runs Allegheny Arsenal – at a gun show a couple weeks ago, and this is the first of a couple interviews we did with him on the MG34 […]
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Forgotten Weapons at SHOT 2012
Yep, we’re going to the SHOT Show in Vegas this year. It’ll actually be my first time attending, and I’m really looking forward to it. We’re going to be interviewing some cool people (like Charles […]
Light MGs
Construction of Automatic Weapons
From our friend Hrachya, we have a very cool book for you today. Titled Construction of Automatic Weapons, it was printed in Russia in 1933, and consists of line drawings of all the major machine […]
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Vintage Saturday: Maybe you can hire…the Model A Team!
Maybe this team can actually hit the bad guys once in a while…
Book review
Video Book Review: Textbook of Automatic Pistols
Every pile of dusty old books you find at a gun show has a zillion reprints of Cartridges of the World and how-to pamphlets on stock refinishing from 1960. But occasionally you’ll find a real […]
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End of Major Construction Operations
Alrighty, I think we’ve got the major site layout changes done now. The new format has a couple big improvements, like automatically sizing itself to fit your monitor width. But the main reason I made […]
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Fusil Mexico – One More Set of Photos
You may recall the Fusil Mexico from our initial post or followup – it is the interesting slide-action rifle that showed up at a Denver gun show a few months ago. Well, the owner has […]