Submachine Guns
UC-9 at the Range
Yesterday we looked at the development and mechanics of the UC-9 folding sneaky submachine gun. Today we are out at the range with it – how does this thing actually handle? Well, actually better than […]
United States
Submachine Guns
The UC-9: Like a Sneaky, Extra-Boxy Uzi
The UC-9 is a really interesting example of the market distortion caused by the 1986 Hughes Amendment. This is essentially an Uzi converted into a form factor than doesn’t look like a gun when folded […]
General Purpose MGs
M60: Its Purpose, Mechanics, and Development
The concept for the M60 began at the end of World War Two, when US Ordnance officers became very interested in the German concept of a universal machine gun (originally conceived by the Danes, but […]
Competition
I Tried to Use the GR-1 Anvil at the BUG Match…
So, I took the GR-1 to this month’s Backup Gun Match…but all did not go as I’d hoped. We blew a fuse in the gun (it is still an alpha prototype, remember), and were not […]
Electromagnetic Weapons
ArcFlash Labs’ GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle
https://arcflashlabs.com/_accelerators/fully-assembled-guns/# The GR-1 “Anvil” is a portable, shoulder-fired gauss rifle made by Arcflash Labs. Yeah, it’s pretty awesome to be living in the future where we actually have real gauss rifles, isn’t it? First, some […]
Electromagnetic Weapons
The Reality of Gauss Rifles and Coil Guns w/ David Wirth of Arcflash Labs
David Wirth is one of the founders of Arcflash Labs, a small company developing “ultra-high energy pulsed power supplies”, which have applications in a variety of fields – but today we are talking about electromagnetic […]
Optics
2-Gun: An Old-School “Ring Sight” Optic
This month at the 2G-ACM match, I thought it would be interesting to try out a “Ring Sight”. This is the same style of optics used on the FN P90 – the manufacturer marketed it […]
Optics
LPC16: An AR With a Huge Helium-Neon Laser Built In
Laser Products Corporation got its start in 1979, with a laser sight mounted atop a Colt Trooper .357 Magnum revolver. Shortly thereafter they introduced a range of other small arms with lasers fitted, including the […]
Semiauto Rifles
Springfield Hellion at the Range: The Most Modern Bullpup
My previous experience shooting a VHS-2 was limited to a small indoor range, so I’ve been really looking forward to getting this Springfield Hellion out to a proper range. First up, we have a 2-Gun […]
Semiauto Rifles
Springfield Hellion: The VHS-2 Bullpup Comes to the US
Today we are taking a look at the Springfield Hellion, the semiautomatic US version of HS Produkt’s VHS-2 bullpup rifle. The VHS-2 development goes back almost 20 years, with a first VHS rifle and then […]