I am really excited to announce a new streaming service for historical & education firearms video content: History of Weapons and War. This is a collaboration with seven other firearms channels...
2023-09-15 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The Netflix film "The Siege of Jadotville" recounts the fighting between Katanga soldiers and mercenaries and Company A of the 35th Irish Infantry Battalion, who were deployed to the Katanga provin...
2023-09-15 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Back by popular demand, we have Neil Vermillion again today. We're talking about his experiences while volunteering as a trainer for troops in Ukraine. We're going to discuss why the Russians under...
2023-09-12 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Vugrek family of Croatia (Marko Sr, Marko Jr, and Ivan) were talented firearms designers, who ended up supplying organized crime. Their best-known development was the Agram 2000 submachine gun,...
2023-09-11 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Mateba 6 Unica is the culmination of a series of revolver development by Italian designer Emilio Ghisoni (1937-2008). The Unica 6 is one of only a few self-cocking revolvers to see commercial p...
2023-09-09 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
"Arming the Dragon" by Dolf Goldsmith is now available and shipping:
2023-09-08 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In 1949, Israel was still fighting its was of independence, and purchasing arms internationally was difficult to do. The recently-formalized IDF wanted sniper rifles, and looked to Hammerli in Swit...
2023-09-06 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostTraining scars: the idea that your practice routine will dictate what you do under stress. Is it real? Yes. Does it need to be? No.
The first objective of basic practice and training is to be...
2023-09-05 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Training scars: the idea that your practice routine will dictate what you do under stress. Is it real? Yes. Does it need to be? No.
The first objective of basic practice and training is to be...
2023-09-05 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
There has never been a proper semiauto version of the MP40 available in the US, until now. SSD (Sport-Systeme Dittrich) is a German company that has been making semiauto copies of German WW2 small ...
2023-09-04 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for Day 2 of Finnish Brutality 2023! This year the match is back and better than ever, with a new "Breacher" division for those seeking extra punishment. In addition to wearing armor and ...
2023-09-02 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for Finnish Brutality 2023! This year the match is back and better than ever, with a new "Breacher" division for those seeking extra punishment. In addition to wearing armor and kit (mini...
2023-09-01 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we have both 1st and 2nd pattern semiauto FG-42s from SMG out at the range for some comparative shooting. Which is the better one to get?
2023-08-31 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Brno's ZB-26 was one of the best light machine guns of the 1920s, and it was widely adopted by countries that did not have domestic arms design and production capacity (and it would eventually beco...
2023-08-30 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Pleter M91 is a simple design, but a high-quality one that was manufactured by a proper factory production line. The company making it was planning on (hoping for?) large-scale production, and ...
2023-08-28 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The AMELI (which is a contraction of "ametralladora ligera", or light machine gun) was introduced by CETME in 1981, and adopted by the Spanish military as the MG82. It was a counterpart LMG to the ...
2023-08-26 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Johnson M1941 rifles were used in limited numbers by the US Marine Corps in the Pacific theater of World War Two, but they were used - and generally well liked. Interestingly, there was a fairly co...
2023-08-25 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostVarustekela is throwing a big 20th anniversary party on Saturday the 26th, and I will be there. If you want to stay hello, please come by! There will be a bunch of other cool folks there as well, a...
2023-08-23 18:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
If the FG-42 was such a great gun, then why didn't it get used after the war? Well, two answers...
1) It was crazy expensive to make and there weren't very many lying around for people to use...
2023-08-23 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
When Taiwan decided to move from the M14 platform (the Type 57 in Taiwanese service) to a 5.56mm rifle, they decided to develop a domestic gas-piston version of the AR. Development began in 1973, w...
2023-08-21 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The United States was the only country to use shotguns in World War One in a substantial way. It was not the first time the US had used such guns either; shotguns were used in the Philippines again...
2023-08-21 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For this month's BackUp Gun Match, I decided to bring out the CZ38 - one of the top contenders for ugliest service pistol ever adopted. It's a single-stack, double-action-only .380 with a weirdly b...
2023-08-19 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Llama M87 was Gabilondo y Cia's high-end competition pistols based on the M82 action, and made in both 9mm Parabellum and 7.65mm Parabellum. This was mechanically a copy of the Beretta 92 syste...
2023-08-18 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we are looking at examples of the 1st pattern (Type E) and second pattern (Type G) FG42, comparing their construction and disassembling both to get a close look at the internal differences. D...
2023-08-16 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Alar is an interesting very rare Croatian domestic SMG. It is called the "Alar" after it's designer, Stipe Alar. He first came up with the design in 1971 and built one illegally - which resulte...
2023-08-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I recently picked up one of the Pioneer Arms semiauto PM-63C pistols that are sporadically available here in the US. They have a pretty mediocre reputation and I wasn't expecting much, but the gun ...
2023-08-12 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The USAS-12, made by Daewoo in South Korea, is one of the better box-fed shotguns available (I use that term loosely; there are not that many of them around). It was available as both a semiauto an...
2023-08-12 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Argentina was one of the first countries to adopt Mauser rifles, with the Model 1891. These were replaced by newer Model 1909 rifles a couple decades later, and in 1913 they bought 500 telescopic s...
2023-08-11 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Tara Aerospace is an arms factory in Montenegro that was privatized around 2013 or 2014, and a major stake in it was purchased by one Heinrich Thomet (formerly of Brugger & Thomet, and then the...
2023-08-09 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Yugoslavia purchased both 1895 Nagant revolvers and TT33 Tokarev form the Soviet Union after World War Two, but this was only a holdover until domestic pistol production could begin. While Yugoslav...
2023-08-07 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post