Semiauto Rifles
The Original CETME Mars Importation
RIA’s catalog page for this rifle The CETME Model C would be the basis for the wildly successful H&K 91 / G3 rifle, and a small batch of CETME rifles was brought into the United […]
Rifles
Bolt Action Rifles
WWI Steyr M95 Sniper Carbine
RIA’s catalog page for this rifle During World War One, Austria-Hungary produced about 13,000 sniper rifles and carbines – and while the significant majority of these were full length rifles, the Empire was the only […]
Prototype
Garand Primer-Activated 1924 Trials Rifle
RIA’s catalog page for this rifle The first successful iteration of John Garand’s rifle was developed in 1921 and refined through 1924. A small batch were made for US military testing in 1924, where it […]
Select-fire Rifles
Holy Mother of Muzzle Flash, the Rico Special
Rico is a gunsmith at SIG Neuhausen who likes to tinker. He put together this SIG 510 (aka Stgw 57), with a modern collapsing stock, quad rail foreend, Aimpoint red dot, heavy barrel, and massive […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Musgrave Ambidex: Straight Pull Rimfire Rifle for Lefties or Righties
The Ambidex was a rifle developed by the Musgrave company in South Africa in the late 1980s. It was a straight-pull bolt action rifle inspired by the Browning T-Bolt, but with the ability to have […]
Semiauto Rifles
Rhodesian Cobra SMG/Carbine
The Cobra was one of a variety of semiautomatic compact carbines designed and manufactured in Rhodesia in the latter half of the 1970s for sale as civilian self-defense weapons (primarily for rural farming families). Unlike […]
Bolt Action Rifles
SIG’s Pump Action 550 Rifle: the 550 VRB
In many countries, manually operated rifles are substantially easier for civilians to own than semiautomatic ones – and this was not lost on firearms manufacturers. In an effort to potentially open a new market, SIG […]
Select-fire Rifles
South African Galils: The R4, R5, R6, and LM Series
When South Africa decided to replace the R1 rifle (a metric FAL), they chose to adopt the Israeli Galil. Both nations had similar environmental issues with blowing sand (in northwestern South Africa particularly), and Israel […]
Select-fire Rifles
WW2 Mauser Becomes Heckler & Koch: the StG-45(M), or Gerat 06H
After the Mp44/StG44 Sturmgewehr was starting to see substantial production and field use, the German military and the Mauser company began working on a way to simplify production of the weapon. The design for the […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Kaiserliche Schutztruppen G98 – for the German Camel Corps
Germany established their colony of German South West Africa (Deutsch-Südwestafrika, now Namibia) in 1884, as part of its late attempt to become a colonial power to rival the United Kingdom. The soldiers deployed to protect […]