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Virtual Tour: Swiss Shooting Museum Bern (Ad-free)

Today we are taking a virtual tour of the Swiss Shooting Museum (Schweizer Schützenmuseum Bern) in Bern, Switzerland. The museum has been in this building since just before World War Two, and focu...

Våpensmia NM-149S: Norway's Sniper Conversion of the Kar 98k (Ad-free)

After World War Two, there were a lot of K98k rifles left in Norway. Like, a whole lot of them. So many that even in the 1980s they were still a popular basis for hunting and competition rifles. Th...

Glock 18 & 18C Machine Pistols: How Do They Work? (Ad-free)

After the success of the Glock 17 in Austrian military trials, the company chose two specific markets to target for expansion. One was competition shooters, for whom the Glock 17L was released. The...

Molotovs at the Range: Finnish Brutality 2025 Day 2

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Ice Baths and Skis: Finnish Brutality 2025 Day 1

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Estonian Snipers: Enfields in 7.62x54R and Arisakas in .303 British (Ad-free)

In the early 1930s, the Estonian military and Estonia Defense League had a rather eclectic mix of small arms. The Army had three divisions, and split different types of weapons between them to simp...

A Beautiful Factory Semiauto SIG MKPO (Ad-free)

During the 1930s, SIG Neuhausen made a series of really beautiful submachine guns. They were the MK series, offered in either 500mm / 19.7 inch barrels for military use or 300mm / 11.8 inch for pol...

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 8: Mauser 71/84 (Ad-free)

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Finland's Next Service Rifle (Mostly): Sako ARG S 40 (Ad-free)

Finland and Sweden are both in the process of adopting AR-pattern rifles, and for the Finns this will be their first service rifle in 5.56mm NATO. It is a transition that has been anticipated for n...

Q&A: Finland and Finnish Small Arms (From Berdan to New Sako AR) (Ad-free)

I figured that Finland would be a good subject for this month's Q&A, as I am visiting the country to shoot Finnish Brutality this month. In fact, this video was filmed during the trip (the matc...

Department of Energy 633 Clone at a PCSL 2-Gun Match (Ad-free)

The new Colt 633 Department of Energy clone from PSA/H&R was really quite a lot of fun to shoot, so I decided to take it to a PCSL match. This was basically a USPSA pistol match with two sets o...

Aimpoint's Only Gun: The PC-80 Symmetrical Action (Ad-free)

Latvia's Unique Charger-Loading Lee Enfield (CLLE) Cavalry Carbine (Ad-free)

During the Latvian War of Independence, the nationalist forces receiver a fair bit of support form the British, including some 20,000 P14 Enfield rifles. These were great for the Latvian infantry, ...

Small Arms History of the Falkland Islands Defense Force (Ad-Free)

Various militias existed on the Falkland Islands since its earliest settlement, but the Falkland Islands Defense Force of today traces its roots to the 1892 Falkland Islands Volunteer Corps. This f...

B&T GL-06 Launcher: Reloadable Less-Lethal for Police on a Budget (Ad-free)

The B&T GL06 (Grenade Launcher 2006) was developed in response to a French tender for a riot-control less-lethal weapon in 2006. B&T had actually already been working on a less-lethal proje...

Deckard's Pfläger-Katsumata Series D 5223 (Ad-free)

In the film Blade Runner, Deckard carries a pistol called a Pfläger-Katsumata Series D 5223 - a name created by the fan community to have the initials "PKD" after Phillip K. Dick, who wrote Blade ...

Red Dots: How Cheap is too Cheap? (featuring Mike Branson) (Ad-free)

I met up with Mike Branson of Gideon Optics at SHOT Show 2025. Today, we are talking about red dot price and quality. It's easy to get a good red dot if you are willing to spend enough, but how che...

February Q&A: Finland

With Finnish Brutality coming up just next week, it seems appropriate for this month's Q&A theme to be Finland and Finnish small arms. Independence, Winter War, Continuation War, Cold War, rece...

India's FAL: The 1A1 Inch/Metric Hybrid (Ad-free)

For political reasons, India decided to adopt the 7.62mm NATO cartridge when it needed to replace its No1 MkIII SMLE bolt action rifles with a modern self-loader. They chose the FN FAL as the rifle...

Praga I-23: Prototype Belt-Fed Predecessor of the ZB26 (Ad-free)

Vaclav Holek's first machine gun design for the Czech military was the Praga I, built in 1922 and based heavily on the Vickers/Maxim system. However, it became clear that the military wanted someth...

Military History Visualized Joins History of Weapons & War (Ad-free)

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Primary Arms' HTX-1: A Completely US-Made Red Dot Sight (Ad-free)

Primary Arms just recently announced their HTX-1 red dot, and it sounds pretty cool. From a technical perspective, it has a lot of good points - a clever adapter plate mounting system, two differen...

Ljungman Updates: the AG-42 vs AG-42B (Ad-free)

In 1953, the Swedish military launched a program to refurbish and refit all of the Ag m/42 rifles in inventory. Aside from replacing broken parts and worn barrels, the program also made a number of...

AG42 Ljungman: Sweden Adopts a Battle Rifle in WWII (Ad-free)

Sweden developed, adopted, and produced a new self-loading rifle during World War Two. The process began in 1938, with an attempt by the state rifle factory to convert Swedish Mauser bolt actions i...

Mean Arms' Bearing Delay System (Ad-free)

Mean Arms has developed probably the most refined and sophisticated 9mm AR delaying system on the market, what they call Bearing Delay. This began as an exploration into fitting HK-style roller del...

BSD's VSS Vintorez Reproduction: Beyond the Hype (Ad-free)

The reproduction VSS Vintorez announced and shown by BSD Fabrication & Works at SHOT Show 2025 has garnered a tremendous amount of excitement and attention. This is understandable, as the VSS i...

Enjoying Black Powder Episode 7: Beaumont 1871 (Ad-free)

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Q&A: British Small Arms of World War Two (Audio Only)

Today's Q&A is brought to you by the fine folks at Patreon, and by Penguin Brutality:

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Q&A: British Small Arms of World War Two (Ad-free)

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TOZ-36 and TOZ-49: Soviet Gas-Seal Target Revolvers (Ad-free)

These two revolvers were developed for competitive sport shooting in the Soviet Union. They are usually described as variants of the Model 1895 Nagant, but they actually work on a different mechani...