Medium MGs
Fiat-Revelli M1935
So a week or two ago, we took a look at the Italian Fiat-Revelli M1914 – a particularly funky machine gun. The Italian military put up with it through World War I because they didn’t […]
Machine Guns
Medium MGs
Italian Perino Machine Gun
The Perino is a gun that really should have been adopted, but wasn’t. Its development began in 1901 when Giuseppe Perino (an Italian Army officer) patented the design for a recoil-operated machine gun with a […]
Submachine Guns
Finnish Jatimatic SMG
The Jatimatic was a Finnish submachine gun intended for bodyguards and private security forces. It was designed in the 1980s, and never achieved much success despite having some interesting and clever features. The bolt is […]
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: More Firepower
An AA quad Maxim emplacement in Moscow, circa 1942.
Submachine Guns
Brazilian INA M953 Submachine Gun
We’re happy to have another article by Ronaldo Olive today (reprinted with his permission – and originally found in Harris Publications’ SPECIAL WEAPONS FOR MILITARY & POLICE, 1991) – this time on the INA 953, […]
Manual machine guns
Five-Barrel Nordenfelt Video
While we were visiting the Institute of Military Technology, we took a few minutes to check out their two 5-barrel Nordenfelt guns and chat with Joe from GardnerGuns.com about them. The Nordenfelt was one of […]
Light MGs
Vintage Saturday: Easy Rider
The gun is an LMG-25…and I have no idea what the bike is.
Medium MGs
Italian Fiat-Revelli Modello 1914
Since we looked at the Breda Model 30 a couple days ago, it seems appropriate to also take a look at another early Italian machine gun: the Fiat-Revelli M1914. Italy had been an early adopter […]
Light MGs
Breda Model 30 LMG
The Breda Model 30 was the standard Italian light machine gun of World War II, and is a serious contender for “worst machine gun ever”. Yes, given the choice we would prefer to have a […]
Light MGs
Madsens and Mystery Rifles with the Rio Police
We have a couple cool items from Ronaldo Olive today. In response to some comments on the Brazilian PASAM Mauser pistols, he sent over these photos of the Rio de Janeiro military police with Madsen […]