The FAMASenning: All the FAMAS from Airsoft to Centerfire
The military FAMAS has spawned several clones, and we are taking a look at each one of them today. First up is the Cybergun AEG airsoft FAMAS – a normal commercial production piece, but this one is...
View ArticleMAT 54 SB: A Semiautomatic SMG for Banks and Cash Trucks
The MAT 54 SB is a variation of the MAT 49/54, which was in turn the police model of the French MAT 49 submachine gun. Chambered for 9x19mm Parabellum, it uses MAT 49 magazines and most MAT-49 parts....
View ArticlePauza P50: A Failed Barrett .50BMG Competitor
Developed in the late 1980s by machinist Robert Pauza, the P50 is a .50 BMG semiauto rifle that was introduced in 1990. It uses a short-stroke gas piston and tilting bolt closely copied (and scaled...
View ArticleSako M92S: Finland’s Last Civilian AK (now being imported to the US)
My book on Finnish small arms is available for preorder: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/forged-in-snow The M92S is the semiautomatic civilian version of the Finnish military rk95 rifle. The rk95...
View ArticleExplaining the Yugoslav / Zastava M70 Series of Rifles
Yugoslavia never received a technical data package or license for the AK; they reverse engineered the system themselves in the 1960s. In the process, they created a version of the AK noted for its...
View ArticleNorth Korean Type 68-1 Export “Asian Contract” Underfolder (Semiauto Build)
North Korea is too poor to finance social credit points, but if they did have them, you’d get loads for wearing our Best Korea propaganda shirt:...
View ArticleMasterpiece Arms MPA-971: Frankengun of the Assault Weapons Ban
The Masterpiece Arms MPA-971 was designed in 2003, at the tail end of the US Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Among other things, the ban prohibited the manufacture or import of magazines holding more...
View ArticleNavy M1 Garand Conversions to 7.62mm NATO: Mk2 Mod0 & Mk2 Mod1
Available from Morphys here: Mk2 Mod0 – https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/_C__DOCUMENTED_USN_SPRINGFIELD_M1_GARAND_MK_2_MOD_-LOT661040.aspx Mk2 Mod1 –...
View ArticleThe Real T26 “Tanker” M1 Garand
Check out Headstamp Publishing’s extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten The name “tanker” has been applied to shortened M1 Garand rifles for a long...
View ArticleBeretta M1918: Italy’s 9mm Semiauto 9mm Carbine from WWI
Italy adopted the Villar Perosa in 1915, a gun that is sometimes considered the first submachine gun. Despite being fully automatic and chambered for pistol ammo (9mm Glisenti/Parabellum), it was...
View ArticleM1E5 Experimental Paratrooper Garand
In January 1944 men of the 93rd Infantry Division field-modified an M1 to give it a shorter (18″) barrel, and the rifle was sent back to the US and tested by the Infantry Board. The idea was that a...
View ArticleSemiauto SAR-80 “Sterling Assault Rifle” at the Range
The SAR-80 was a design by Frank Waters at Sterling in the UK, but was not actually put into production by Sterling. Instead, it was licensed to Chartered Industries of Singapore in 1977, who...
View ArticleAly & Kaufman AKB-23: Better Than the SA80 / L85
Penguin Brutality t-shirt available from Varusteleka: https://varusteleka.com/en/products/forgotten-weapons-penguin-brutality-t-shirt The Aly & Kaufman AKB-23 is a set of parts that allows one to...
View ArticleAK50: How Hard Could it Be? Brandon Herrera’s 10-Year Project
Scaling the AK up to .50 BMG…how hard could it be? Today we find out, with a detailed looks at all threee iterations of Brandon Herrera’s AK-50 project.The post AK50: How Hard Could it Be? Brandon...
View ArticleApache Arms Carbine: A Saga of Compliance and Crappy Manufacture
The Apache Arms carbine was a Thompson SMG lookalike that was made in small numbers in the late 1960s. It was the successor to the Spitfire carbine made by the same people, after the Spitfire was...
View ArticleColt LE-901 Modular Multi-Caliber AR: A Well-Designed Failure
Colt originally developed the 901 as part of the US Army SCAR program, with the intention being to create a 7.62x51mm rifle that could also use unmodified 5.56x45mm upper assemblies. This would allow...
View ArticleM1E10 Garand-Ljungman Prototype
Springfield Armory was involved in experimenting with he M1 Garand throughout its production, looking at various different elements that could be improved. A series of experimental models were made,...
View ArticleBommarito: America’s First Toggle-Locked Battle Rifle
Designed by Giuseppe Bommarito, this was one of the many independent rifle designs submitted to the US War Department in the 1910s hoping for military adoption. It is a short recoil operated,...
View ArticleSwedish Paratrooper Prototype: AK Fm/57
Check out Headstamp Publishing’s extensive catalog of excellent books: https://www.headstamppublishing.com/home-forgotten As Sweden was looking to adopt a new self-loading infantry rifle in the 1950s,...
View ArticleZK 381: Czech Pre-War Prototype Battle Rifle
The ZK-381 was designed by Josef Koucký, his first design of 1938 (hence 381). This is one of the last of the Czech pre-war self-loading rifle projects, of which there were quite a lot. It uses a...
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