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Military Weapons From The Past: DeLisle Commando Carbine

Posted on 27 August 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Blast from the Past: DeLisle Commando Carbine (click on above title link to be re-directed to Source Page) Talk about the authentic “Silent but Deadly Sentry Killer” this was it. Chambered in .45 ACP and able to accept 1911 Mags, it was the ultimate in battlefield practicality for SOE operatives and Partisans during WW2. Stay Alert,…

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Military Weapons From the Past: Japanese ZH-29 Copy

Posted on 15 August 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

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

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Military Weapons From the Past: Himmler’s Sniper Presentation Sauer 38H Pistol

Posted on 12 August 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

This pistol on display here is a Sauer model 38H (a much more common pistol in German WWII service than many people realize) that was made specially as a presentation piece. Heinrich Himmler presented these pistols to snipers who had killed 100 enemy soldiers – other prizes were offered for 50 (a leave from the…

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An In-Depth History of the AK-47

Posted on 5 August 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Tools of Modern Terror   Very rarely do you read anything about Firearms in the New York Times that is not liberal biased dribble and excrement that seeks to vilify firearms as the culprit to society’s ills. But this article by C.J. Chivers, a Marine and author of The Gun, a historical tour-de-force of the history of…

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Military Weapons From the Past: Winchester M2 Rifle

Posted on 29 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

In the previous video, we looked at the Winchester G30M rifle as it was submitted to Marine Corps trials in 1940. When the trial result came back with the G30M in last place, Winchester immediately assigned David Williams to work on adapting it to resolve the problems found in testing. What Williams did was to…

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Obscure Weapons: The Browning Gas-Toggle Pistol

Posted on 18 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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Military Weapons From the Past: The British EM Series – The First Bullpup Design from the 1950’s

Posted on 13 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

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…

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World War I Era Weapons: Japanese Arisaka Type 30

Posted on 8 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

Read the Original Article at Forgotten Weapons Follow C&R Arsenal on YouTube for some Really Cool History Lessons on Military Weapons From the Past.

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Military Weapons From The Past: Burton 1917 Light Machine Rifle

Posted on 5 July 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

America’s first assault rifle? Well, it does meet all the requirements – select-fire, intermediate cartridge, and shoulder-fired. It was never actually fielded, though. The Burton Light Machine Rifle was developed during World War One, with the firing model completed in 1917. It was intended as an aircraft observer’s weapon for attacking balloons – a role…

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Military Weapons From The Past: Smallest Guy Gets The BAR?

Posted on 24 June 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

One of the most beloved and hated weapons of World War II was the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR). Another of John Browning’s classic designs, it was literally the first Squad Automatic Weapon. Though it lives on in weapon lore, like we said earlier, it had its detractors. World War II Marine William Manchester wrote in…

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