Engraved
Göring’s Platinum Lugers
There are a lot of guns out there attributed to German leaders and politicians of the Second World War. Many of these are completely specious, and many more are true simply because these men had […]
Book review
Book Review: The Complete Book of Tokarev Pistols
The Tokarev is a pistol that does not have much written about it in the world of firearms reference literature – largely because it was not until the collapse of the Soviet Union and the […]
Light MGs
Wartime Changes: The Bren MkI Modified and Bren MkII
The British lost some 90% of their stock of Bren light machine guns in the disastrous Dunkirk evacuation, and in the following months rushed to rearm. Part of this program was a two-tiered simplification of […]
Commentary
How Did I Get My Guns to Finnish Brutality? Polaris Logistics.
I took my own Finnish M39 Mosin and TT-33 Tokarev to Finland for Finnish Brutality, along with a WWSD-2020 carbine. I’ve gotten a lot of questions from people wondering how I did that, and the […]
Semiauto pistol
Uruguayan Celmi Hermanos .32 ACP Pistol
The Celmi brothers were Italians who moved to Uruguay and opened an arms factory. They are best known for sporting shotguns, but in 1943 they introduced an automatic pistol, much like the Walther PP but […]
Book review
Sneak Peek at Thorneycroft to SA80 with the Author, Jonathan Ferguson
Jonathan Ferguson, author of our newest Headstamp Publishing book “Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms 1901-2020”, has just gotten his advance author’s copy of the book! Let’s join him to take a look through its […]
Accessories
Scattergun Science! Testing Diverter and Duckbill Chokes
Matt Haught joins me one more time to try out some practical testing of the Diverter and Duckbill shotgun chokes. We are using a 2-liter bottles of seltzer water on strings at 10 yards, and […]
Shotgun
Clair Brothers Semiauto Shotgun from the 1890s
The Clair brothers were three men from Saint Etienne, France – Benoit, Jean Baptiste, and Victor Clair. They submitted their first patent in 1889, which described in general a gas-operating system for firearms. This was […]
Accessories
Very Rare and Mostly Pointless: the Bren Fixed Line Sight
The very early production MkI Bren light machine guns were made with two dovetail brackets on the left side of the receiver. The rear one was for the standard rear sight, and the front one […]
Light MGs
Bren MkI: The Best Light Machine Gun of World War Two
In the years after World War One, the British military wanted a new machine gun, and they wanted it to replace both the Lewis and the Vickers. Through the 1920s the British would tinker with […]