Firearm History
Lebel Model 1886: the French Revolution of Service Rifles
by Pierangelo Tendas Designed in 1886 and adopted the following year by the French military, the Lebel Modèle 1886 has...
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Takedown Guns: Freaky Weird, Crazy Cool
The day was hot, Africa hot. The CIA asset sweated like a harlot in church as he took in the...
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Germany’s Ultra Rare MG18 – The 13mm Maxim T.U.F.-MG “Tank und Fleigerabwehr” Machine Gun of WWI
By Jim Dickson When the tank first appeared on the WWI battlefields at the Somme on September 15, 1916, the...
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WWII Semiauto Weapons, Stacking up the American M1 Garand, Soviet SVT-40 and German G43
The Second World War was one of great technological advances. It was first war to see the use of jet...
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The Austin Aerospace ASP: A Prototype Aerial Belt-Fed Machine Gun in .30 Carbine
By Tom Ring During 1983-1985, Harold "Hal" Johnson designed and built an experimental prototype .30 cal., lightweight machine gun for...
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The WWII Sauer M30 Luftwaffe Drilling Survival Rifle
By Jim Dickson Unlike the U.S. Air Force, which thinks a hard-to-hit with skeletonized zip gun is a survival weapon,...
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A Machine Gun on a Bicycle: The Vélo-Mitrailleur Blanchard
When the machine gun appeared at the beginning of the last century, researchers were made to enhance, at best, its...
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Bolt-Action Rifle Conversions Part III: World War II Edition
By Gabriel Coutinho de Gusmão (This is a multi-part series. Click here to read Part I.) In the last chapter...
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The M1941 Johnson Rifle: The Most Reliable Semi-Auto Rifle of All Time
By Jim Dickson The title of the most reliable semi-auto rifle of all time goes to the M1941 Johnson. While...
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Deadly Effect, Poisoned Bullets for WWII Handguns
The Forensic Institute of the Security Police (Kriminaltechnisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei / KTI) was a department of the Reich Main...
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