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Addressing and Breaking the AK Stigma
ADDRESSING AND BREAKING THE “AK STIGMA” I feel very humbled that the good folks over at American Partisan magazine chose to reprint an article I wrote way back in 2015. My sincerest Thanks go out to NC Scout and Kit Perez for all their hard work. Please take some time and go over and…
Guerilla Gunsmithing: Very Cool CETME-LC Kit Build
CETME-LC (the short one): Safety PSA (click on above link to be re-directed to source page) I you are looking for a different variation on a 5.56 gun besides your run-of-the mill everyday AR, this is a very cool kit build with a lot of possibilities. Mind the safety notice however! This one can…
Weapons & Ammo: Mossberg Cruiser Shorty Shotty’s
Mossberg Introduces 590A1 and 500 Compact Cruiser AOWs Although the price point even before the Communist SBR Stamp and Transfer Fee are applied is WAY too high at $900+ this is still a very cool design for a truck gun, BOB Gun, etc. As a fellow blogger and friend always sais, “Guns like this…
Curio and Relic Firearms Book Review: M91/30 Rifles & M38/M44 Carbines in 1941-1945
The full title is actually (deep breath) M91/30 Rifles and M38/M44 Carbines in 1941-1945: Accessories and Devices – History of Production, Development, and Maintenance, by Alexander Yuschenko and translated into English by Ryan Elliot. I saw this book mentioned a few weeks ago on a firearms discussion board, and figured I ought to get a copy,…
Obscure Weapons: The Standschultze-Hellreigel Submachine Gun
The Austro-Hungarian Standschutze Hellriegel debuted in 1915. Today the automatic, light firearm is something of a mystery. The prototype blended pistol-caliber ammunition with the firepower of a machine gun, making it one of the first weapons which could be considered a “submachine gun.” That much, we know. The rest is … conjecture. The images in this…
Know Your Weapons: The Walther P-38, Germany’s Most Popular Wartime Pistol
In 1929, German gun-maker Waffenfabrik Walther began developing a new nine-millimeter pistol for military use. The development violated the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, so Walther kept it secret. Early Walther attempts focused on scaling up its “PP” line of pistols to chamber the larger nine-mil round. This pistol, the Militarpistole, wasn’t…
History of Weapons: Hiram Maxim’s Self-Loading Rifle Came Before his Machine Gun
In 1883 Hiram Maxim designed a unique system that harnessed the recoil of a rifle. Maxim filed a patent for this system which, when the U.S. government granted it in April 1884, became his first firearm design patent — a year before his now-famous machine-gun concept patent. To prove his ideas about using recoil to operate…
Underwater Firearms: The Russian Amphibious Assault Rifle
The Soviet Union began developing underwater guns nearly 50 years ago. The idea — to arm commando frogmen and other combat divers for underwater engagements, however rare and unlikely these subsurface firefights might actually be. In the late 1960s, Moscow enlisted “TsNIITochMash” — the Central Scientific Research Institute of Precise Mechanical Engineering, a Soviet design…
The AK Alfa Rifle
If this is the future of the AK Rifle Platform, I am not duly impressed. It looks like a Frankenfish; a cross between an AK, SCAR and an AR. Of course the IDF helped design it, so that makes sense, they created the Galil many moons ago. -SF Kalashnikov USA , manufacturer of Kalashnikov…