Via: Matthew Bracken Substack Circa 1997, I was in Panama, on the Caribbean side, getting my boat ready to transit the canal to the Pacific. I was walking from Colon’s old so-called yacht club (now long gone) through an industrial port area to get to Colon City. When I was passing about…
Category: Know Your Weapons
Mangione’s Weapon of Choice
Via: Big Country A Glock 3-D Printer Variant of the G-19. And that mag? Glock 17. Way longer than the grip/magwell. Threaded Barrel. Suppressor height iron sights. It is NOT a Poly80 however. Zooming in you can see the ‘threading’ and stippling on the grips that one gets from a 3-D Printer. Also, it…
Know Your Weapons: 1911 Facts
H/T: Wynn John M. Browning designed the 1911 so that an empty cartridge casing could be used in a pinch if the spring plug was lost.
Know Your Firearms History: The Maxim Irony
Know Your Weapons: The Ruger MP9
The MP9 – That Time Ruger Sold a Submachine Gun If I say Ruger, what do you think? Ruger is a fairly diverse company. Some might picture their robust revolvers in a variety of calibers. Others may picture their affordable handgun lineups. Still, others might think of the slick and absolutely wonderful No. 1 rifle…
Know Your Partisan Firearms
Came across this picture on WRSA and being a firearms history nerd, my curiosity was peaked, so I did an image search: ‘A Warsaw insurgent armed with a ZB vz. 26 light machine gun during the Warsaw Uprising.’ More on the Czech ZB vz.26: Caliber: 7.92×57 mm Mauser Weight: 8.9 kg Length: 1168 mm Length…
Guerilla Gunsmith: Guerilla Arms Factory in Colombia
Illicit SMG Factory Raided in Colombia Via: Radios Regionales “Parliamentarians from the Los Ríos region described the clandestine weapons factory found in the commune of Panguipulli as serious. The senator of Renovación Nacional, María José Gatica, assured that this discovery represents the capacity of criminal organizations to establish complex and technically advanced operations…
AK Corner: Is the PKM the Best Light Machine Gun Ever?
PKM: Is This the Best Light Machine Gun Ever? Key point: PKMs still arm many western-aligned nations as well. Mikhail Kalashnikov is known for creating the AK rifle, but his contributions to Soviet firearms design didn’t end there. In 1961 he designed the PK machine gun, which was modernized into the PKM in 1969….
Know Your WW2 History: The M8 Greyhound
The M8 Greyhound Armored cars tend to be overlooked by World War II history buffs. Nimble fighter planes, deadly bombers, hulking tanks and stealthy submarines are “sexier” than a car that can’t fight like a tank, can’t race a plane, and can’t use terrain to its advantage like infantry. Nevertheless, armored cars were a vital part…
Know Your Ammo: The Rise and Fall of the .45 GAP
The Rise and Fall of the .45 GAP Let’s go back to the year 2003. The .40 S&W cartridge introduced in 1990 skyrocketed to first place in popularity among American police service pistols. The almost decade-old .357 SIG cartridge also seemed to be ascendant. It was clear that law enforcement wanted something more powerful…