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Vintage Saturday: La Decena Tragica

October 13, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

La Decena Tragica (the Tragic Ten) is the common name for the ten days in February 1913 when Mexican president Francisco Madero was deposed and executed by military coup.

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Vintage Saturday: Danish Technical

September 22, 2012 Ian McCollum 11

Yep, it’s a 20mm Madsen automatic cannon – circa 1936. And check out that bull bar in front!

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Light MGs

Madsens and Mystery Rifles with the Rio Police

September 4, 2012 Ian McCollum 49

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 […]

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French 1923 LMG Trials Report

March 21, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

In 1923, the French military held a light machine gun trial to choose a weapon to replace the CSRG Chauchat. The trials involved weapons evaluations both by an expert committee and by 9 regiments testing […]

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Construction of Automatic Weapons

January 2, 2012 Ian McCollum 5

From our friend Hrachya, we have a very cool book for you today. Titled Construction of Automatic Weapons, it was printed in Russia in 1933, and consists of line drawings of all the major machine […]

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Belt-fed Madsen tank gun

December 7, 2011 Ian McCollum 6

We spotted this interesting gun at SAR West 2011. It’s actually a parts kit, as the sides of the receiver have been chopped up and discarded. But the remaining pieces make for a very interesting […]

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SAR West 2011 Review and NFA stats

December 5, 2011 Ian McCollum 6

Well, it’s been another yet and another SAR West gun show. As I mentioned before, this is the only gun show around here that I attend – because you’ll find more great stuff at it […]

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