The Birth of the Modern PDW? The C96 Mauser Military Pistol
In 1893, Paul Mauser tasked the three brothers, Fidel, Fritz, and Josef Federle, with designing a semi-auto pistol for the ...
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Battle Arms Development, Part II: The PDW Gets B.A.D. Treatment
An assembled prototype fitted with a 7-inch barrel. This PDW is so compact and balanced; the magazine is at the ...
FAB DEFENSE K.P.O.S. GLOCK PISTOL TO PDW CONVERSION
Many consider Glock the standard by which fighting pistols are held based on capacity, weight/firepower ratio, ruggedness, and reliability. A ...
THE BRÜGGER & THOMET MP9 IN CALIBER 6.5X25 CBJ
The phone call from Carl Bertil Johansson in early summer 2009 came out of the blue. The founder of the ...
THE MILITARY ARMAMENT CORPORATION M-11 MAC DADDY: YOUR FATHER’S PDW
Personal Defense Weapons, or PDWs, are all the rage. Personal Defense Weapons as a genre are designed to be handy ...
COLT’S 5.56X30MM MARS (MINI ASSAULT RIFLE SYSTEM) PROGRAM
By Christopher R. Bartocci The concept of a PDW (Personal Defense Weapon) is to provide personal firepower in between that ...
9MM PM-63 POLAND’S FIRST PDW
By Leszek Erenfeicht Almost twenty years before the West went PDW-crazy with advent of micro-caliber rounds that made the concept ...
MP7 HK
By Dan SheaThe Cibola Dust Course at Yuma Proving Ground is well known to small arms testers as a place ...
HK’s Personal Defense Weapon
By Jim SchatzLeaner and MeanerWhile there are exceptions of course, guns and ammunition used by American military and law enforcement ...
SAAB Bofors Dynamic’s CBJ MS PDW
By Charles Q. CutshawPersonal Defense Weapons (PDWs) are a current small arms “hot ticket,” especially with the British Ministry of ...
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