There have been several examples of the AK being used as the basis for a pistol-caliber SMG or PDW. The Russians made the Vityaz, the Hungarians made the KGPF-9...and the Czechs actually made a ver...
2022-09-10 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In response to a Finnish military need for a machine gun better than the old Maxim for aerial and anti-aircraft use, Aimo Lahti developed the L33 machine gun from the basis of the Lahti-Saloranta d...
2022-09-09 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
From Brian on Patreon:
"What’s the dumbest or most unsafe thing you’ve ever witnessed while out shooting in the desert or at a range / match?"
That would definitely be when a pair o...
2022-09-08 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFrom Brian on Patreon:
"What’s the dumbest or most unsafe thing you’ve ever witnessed while out shooting in the desert or at a range / match?"
That would definitely be when a pair o...
2022-09-08 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The HS Produkt company, best known for making the XD pistols sold in the US by Springfield, was originally called IM Metal, and was a general fabrication company in Croatia. When the Croatian Homel...
2022-09-07 12:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Available directly from Legacy Collectibles:
https://www.legacy-collectibles....
2022-09-06 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Designed and manufactured by Fabbrica Nazionale d'Armi di Brescia (National Arms Factory of Brescia) in northern Italy, for use by the RSI and German military forces (as well as some partisan units...
2022-09-05 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Yesterday we looked at the history and development of the vz.82 pistol; today I am taking it out to the BackUp Gun Match. this should be a pretty competitive pistol in this environment, and it actu...
2022-09-03 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The vz.82 and its cousin the CZ 83 are pistols that originated when the Czech state export company during the Cold War began looking for arms it could export to bring in hard currency. The current ...
2022-09-02 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Scheduled for September 29.
2022-09-01 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostFrom Nikolas on Patreon:
"Have there been any attempts to make miniaturized man-portable chain guns? Do you think there's a future for such a machine gun given modern advances in energy stora...
2022-09-01 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
From Nikolas on Patreon:
"Have there been any attempts to make miniaturized man-portable chain guns? Do you think there's a future for such a machine gun given modern advances in energy stora...
2022-09-01 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The AKB-15 was a project developed by Arex Defense in Slovenia in 2015. The company received a request from a small country (they decline to reveal exactly who) to modernize a stock of AKM rifles w...
2022-08-31 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
During my visit to Slovenia, I had a chance to tour the AREX Defense factory in Šentjernej. I came away really impressed by the quality and the breadth of operations that the factory performs in-h...
2022-08-30 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The Soviet Union began to take an interest in military suppressors in the early 1930s, and experimented with things like suppressors for the DP light machine gun. Through the 1930s a variety of dif...
2022-08-29 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The CZ-2000 project in the Czech Republic (derived from the Lada developed in the late years of Czechoslovakia) envisioned a full suite of infantry arms, much like the AK as used by other countries...
2022-08-27 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A very small batch of special target model pistols was made at the very end of Astra 400 production in 1945. They were fitted with Patridge front sights and adjustable revolver-style square-notch r...
2022-08-26 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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We have some cool new items dropping in the Forgotten Weapons shop today!
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The ALKA model 93 is one of the nicest of the several dozen simple SMGs made in Croatia during the Homeland War of the 1990s. It was produced by the IM Metal company (later renamed HS Produkt) star...
2022-08-24 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
A question I have been asked by several different people in several Q&A threads is:
"Does the Savage rotating-barrel system actually do anything?"
In his 1905 patent, Elbert Searle ...
2022-08-23 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The creation of a short and handy Mosin Nagant carbine to complement the standard M891 was prompted by the Russo-Japanese War. Lots of Russian troops with roles other than infantry - machine gun an...
2022-08-22 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Scrome, the original maker of the J8 scope used by the French Army on the FR-F2 sniper rifle, is making a commercial run of J8 scopes for collectors who have the recently-released surplus FR-F2 rif...
2022-08-21 13:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we are out at the range to compare the Angstadt Arms MDP-9 to the classic H&K SP-5. We will do a bunch of runs on a course of fire that incudes precision targets, spinners and stars, and ...
2022-08-20 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Finnish Brutality, I'm spending a few days in Iceland. If you happen to be an Icelander, it would be great to meet up with you! I will be at Cafe Babalú on the 29th from 5pm until probably ...
2022-08-19 23:08:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Angstadt Arms has recently released their MDP-9 carbine, an AR-type lower coupled with a roller-delayed blowback upper assembly. This is the same operating system as the much-lauded MP5, and Angsta...
2022-08-19 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
From Brian on Patreon:
"Would you give your thoughts and comments on non-gun companies making guns? For example Baldwin Locomotive/Eddystone 1917s, IH Garands, GM M-16s, most M-1 carbines, ma...
2022-08-18 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFrom Brian on Patreon:
"Would you give your thoughts and comments on non-gun companies making guns? For example Baldwin Locomotive/Eddystone 1917s, IH Garands, GM M-16s, most M-1 carbi...
2022-08-18 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The Browning High Power (“Grand Puissance”, aka GP-35) was developed by Fabrique National in Belgium, designed primarily by John Browning’s apprentice Dieudonné Saive. It began in the very e...
2022-08-17 12:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm joined by Len Antaris of Historic Investments to discuss, well, historic investments. I maintain that firearms are better bought for their historic value than as speculative investments, ...
2022-08-16 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Rafael Mendoza was Mexico’s premier domestic arms designer, and the Model 1934 LMG is probably his most successful design. He began work on it in 1929, and it entered testing with the Mexican Arm...
2022-08-15 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post