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Category: Know Your Weapons
John Pedersen
Know Your Firearms History
Know Your Weapons: British SMG’s
British SMG’s (Sub-Machine Guns) Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Know Your Weapons
Good, solid primer on MG terminology and nomenclature. Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Know Your Weapons: Gas Piston vs Gas Impingement
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Know Your Weapons: Open vs Closed Bolt Firearms
As part of my 2019 crusade to help stifle ignorance in the world and maybe help dwindle the booming idiot population, I thought I would do my part and start two new series called “Know Your Weapons” and “Know your History”. Hope you enjoy them and learn something in the process. Stay Alert,…
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…
Military Weapons From the Past: Japanese ZH-29 Copy
This is a really interesting one for all you WW2 and Weapons buffs. Ever wonder why more countries did not successfully field large numbers of Semi-Auto Infantry rifles like the U.S. did with the M1 Garand in WWII? Listen Up! You Can Read More About This at Forgotten Weapons
Obscure Weapons: The Browning Gas-Toggle Pistol
On the April 20th, 1897, now-legendary firearms-designer John Browning received four patents for various pistol designs. These included two recoil-operated systems, a blowback design and — most interestingly — a pistol using a gas-operated toggle action. Browning had developed the gas-operated design a few years earlier in 1894 and ’95. It was actually Browning’s first pistol design. Unfortunately, it also…
Military Weapons From the Past: The British EM Series – The First Bullpup Design from the 1950’s
By late 1947 the British Army’s Armaments Design Department had designed three principal rifles for the Infantry Personal Weapon program. The new rifles got their official designations in January 1948. They were Stanley Thorpe’s EM-1, the EM-2 designed by Capt. Kazimierz Stefan Januszewski and the EM-3, the latter the brainchild of Major J.E.M. Hall, an…