Today we have a manual for the Russian APS underwater assault rifle, thanks to our friend Hrachya. The APS (Avtomat Podvodnyj Spetsialnyj) was developed in the early 1970s as a way to provide greater firepower […]
Back in the 1960s, the US Navy decided to rechamber a bunch of its M1 Garand rifles to 7.62 NATO. The proper way to do this would have been to simply put new 7.62 barrels […]
In the aftermath of World War II, Switzerland began looking into semiautomatic rifles to replace their K31 rifles. One of the resulting designs was the SK46, produced in very small numbers by SIG at Neuhausen […]
Back at the SAR West gun show in Phoenix, we came across a Scotti Model X rifle – and the owner was kind enough to let us take some photos. The Scotti was an experimental […]
Want someone to buy your rifle? Butter them up with a demo model to play with. It still works that way today, and eighty years ago it was the same way. We have an interesting […]
Fridtjof Brøndby was a Norwegian arms designer who created a number of self-loading rifle designs in the 1930s, including one which was submitted to the Norwegian Army for testing. He also developed a 7.62mm submachinegun, […]
We had the opportunity to take a look at a PTR-44 semiauto reproduction of a German Sturmgewehr today, and it’s a gorgeous rifle. There were some issues reported by early owners (including miscut chambers due, […]
From our friend Steve Hill at Spotted Dog Firearms, we have a good set of photos of an original World War I Winchester (as a result of British trials, it was determined that Winchester made […]
We found this very unusual rifle at the SAR West show this year. It’s an Italian prototype selfloading rifle, but we don’t know much more than we can infer from an inspection. Our friend MGMike […]
This may come as a surprise to some folks, but the first semiautomatic rifle adopted for military use was the M1908 Mondragon rifle designed in Mexico by Manuel Mondragon. He was granted a US patent […]
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