INDUSTRY NEWS: JUNE 2003
By Robert M. Hausman While ATF Won’t Restore Gun Rights, it will Restore Explosive Privileges For over ten years, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearm... Read more.
BOOK REVIEWS: JUNE 2003
By Frank Iannamico Johnson Rifles and Machine GunsBy Bruce Canfieldwith Robert L. Lamoreauxand Edward R. Johnson,Hardback, 272 printed pages,ISBN: 1-931464-02-2... Read more.
THE AUTO-ORDNANCE T-2 .45 CALIBER SUBMACHINE GUN
By Frank Iannamico The Thompson submachine gun first appeared on the commercial market in 1921. The Auto-Ordnance Corporation had attempted to sell the weapon t... Read more.
21ST CENTURY MILITARY OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY: NDIA SMALL ARMS 2002
By Robert Bruce So, you go to Knob Creek, S.H.O.T. and maybe a police expo or two. Good, these are great events and chock full of fine examples of old and new h... Read more.
THE TURKISH VICKERS TRIPOD
By Rick Cartledge Those desiring to fire Browning .30 caliber machine guns from the standing position have several alternatives. John Moses Browning duplicated ... Read more.
THE LEANER, MEANER RATTLESNAKE: THE LEWIS ASSAULT RIFLES
By J David Truby In the animal world, the bigger the brute, the nastier the bite. In reptiles, though, sometimes the smallest snake has nastier venom than its l... Read more.
BODY ARMOR FOR BORIS
By Val Shilin Three years ago I was attending the European Symposium on Small Arms and Cannons. During one of the presentations, a representative of Heckler &am... Read more.
CENTRAL AMERICAN SPECOPS WEAPONS: WEAPONS I: GUATEMALA, BELIZE & EL SALVADOR
By Julio A. Montes Central America was a hot bed of counterinsurgency warfare between 1960 and late 1990. In order to define the region it is important to indic... Read more.
STEN SPEED BOLT
By Frank Iannamico The World War II Sten submachine gun, known to the British as the Sten machine carbine, originated as an expedient personal weapon in 1941. O... Read more.
CLASSIC MACHINEGUNS, ACCESSORIES, APPENDAGES AND ANCILLARIES
By Robert Bruce “The belt-filling machine is designed to place the cartridges expeditiously and evenly in the ammunition belts, and is constructed so that it ... Read more.
