Miniature - Forgotten Weapons

Miniature Fully Functional Taiwanese Preproduction Sten Gun

October 28, 2021 Ian McCollum 22

In the mid 1950s, the Nationalist government on Taiwan was in serious need of small arms, and decided to set up production of the Sten gun. They had the facilities of the 44th Arsenal outside […]

Tippman’s Half-Scale .22 Rimfire Browning 1917 Machine Gun

December 4, 2019 Ian McCollum 12

In 1983, Dennis Tippman formed a company to manufacture half-scale functional replicas of Browning machine guns – the 1919 and 1917 specifically. He built these as both fully automatic and semiautomatic (the semiauto design being […]