This lecture was presented at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Society of Arms Collectors. It was given by Doug Scott, who ran a series of archaeological surveys of the Little Bighorn battlefield and coauthored a book on the results. You can find his book here:
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Of the SFOD-Delta (Delta Force) 90's rifles, perhaps the suppressed Colt M16A2 commando (RO723) has been one of the most sought after variants. Popularized but the film Black Hawk Down, and nicknamed "Gordon's Carbine", many have considered it to be the baseline for the SF's development of the M...

Our story begins with the French model 1873 revolver and ends with the Swiss model 1878 revolver, the latter having its roots in the former and the two being in service more or less in parallel. Here we'll take a look at how their lockworks differ, take a look at the service ammunition and, of c...

The FORT-230 is Ukraine's 9x19mm submachine gun. Since the start of 2025 these compact personal defence weapons have been seen more and more frequently with various different units of the Ukrainian armed forces.

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Military interest in a submachine gun was late in Czechoslovakia, but by the late 1930s a development program was put into place. Interestingly, the main use case for an SMG was seen as being a replacement for a rifle-caliber LMG in fortification mounts. The thought process seems to have been tha...

This week, Jonathan takes a closer look at what appears to be a classic MP5… but isn’t quite what it seems.

Join us as we examine the Tondar TK9, Iran’s reverse-engineered copy of the iconic Heckler & Koch submachine gun.

Charles François Galand is best known for his simultaneous-extraction Model 1868, but he also developed a very good solid-frame revolver. This was specifically for the French 1871 military trials, which specifically required a solid frame. The Galand was chambered for 12mm Galand (with its distin...

This month I am excited to invite three other firearms YouTube channels to join me in the Q&A - Polenar Tactical, Bloke on the Range, and PrintShootRepeat. We all just finished shooting Lynx Brutality (put on by Polenar Tactical) and took the opportunity to address a bunch of questions about fire...

Responding to a comment of a guy that was very negative about the Wehrmacht's performance and then called me a "closet nazi" and "wehraboo". Which is not without irony, because I consider these kinds of people "wehrbashers" which are just "wehraboos" with a different color, they share a superfici...

The PP-19 Bizon is a Russian 9mm AK model using helical drum magazines, made in several calibers. It was taken into service in 1996, and has been making Western AKphiles drool ever since, because who wouldn't want a compact 9mm SMG with a 64-round capacity (64 rounds in 9x18 Mak; 53 rounds in 9x1...

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The Accuracy International Arctic Warfare is renowned for its incredible precision and as the father for chassis-based sniper rifles. How accurate ...

We are happy to see that more and more quality European repro makers are entering the muzzle loading market with arms not covered by the large manufacturers. One of them is Brixia Firearms, with the industrial background of Investarm behind them. Their late 16th century arquebus is based on a mus...

Despite being a neutral power during World War Two, Sweden had a variety of very interesting small arms - like their dual-mount Browning m/36 machine guns. These were originally adopted because the Swedes wanted a heavier medium MG cartridge and didn't think their delayed-blowback Schwarzlose gun...

This week on What Is This Weapon? Jonathan investigates one of the more bizarre battlefield experiments of the Second World War: a curved-barrel attachment designed to let soldiers shoot from cover… or possibly around corners.

You may have seen the Krummlauf before but you probably haven’t seen ...

Proarmis is a Slovenian pistol manufacturer that has introduced a new high-end competition pistol (priced at approximately €4000). The first example has arrived in the US, and I had the chance to borrow it for some filming. The gun handles very well, and has a really remarkably adjustable trigger...

Polenar Tactical has done it again, setting the bar for Brutality matches with this year's Lynx Brutality. Held at the Lynx Pro Training Center outside Kočevje Slovenia, this year's match was 10 stages over two days. My plan was to shoot the match in a covert sort of rig with a suit from Grayman ...

Polenar Tactical has done it again, setting the bar for Brutality matches with this year's Lynx Brutality. Held at the Lynx Pro Training Center outside Kočevje Slovenia, this year's match was 10 stages over two days. My plan was to shoot the match in a covert sort of rig with a suit from Grayman ...

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The first rifle produced by Armalite began in 1952 as a project between the brothers-in-law, Charles Dorchester and George Sullivan (no relation to later Armalite engineer L. James Sullivan). Sullivan is the chief patent attorney for the Lockheed aircraft company, and the two have the idea to pro...

Over two years ago, Jonathan introduced a strange prototype rifle, a complete unknown pulled from the shelves of the Ministry of Defence Pattern Room. No label, no provenance, and a mechanism unlike anything else in the collection.

This week, the mystery comes full circle.

Mike of Bloke on the Range and Ziga of @PolenarTactical both did Lynx Brutality 2025 with integrally-silenced PCC's: Ziga had his MKE-manufactured HK MP5-SD, and Mike had his B&T KH9-SD with Suomi mags. Cos it's cool.

How do they feel about each other's gats?

The genesis of the B&T USW was a two and a half hour car ride home from a youth hockey game, when Karl Brugger and a friend were thinking about how to improve police effectiveness with handguns. What would make a handgun more accurate in practice? Clearly a red for and a shoulder stock. So how do...

This video covers DOs and DON'Ts for German Panzers particularly Panzer I, II & III from a 1940 semi-official manual. It covers aspect like target selection, dealing with MGs, anti-tank guns and an immobilized tank.

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Heckler & Koch released the MG4, a new 5.56mm squad machine gun in 2001. It was adopted by the German army in 2005, and then by the Spanish and Portuguese armies in 2007. Alongside its sister weapon the 7.62mm MG5, it is H&K's current export machine gun.

The MG4 fires from an open bolt, with a 2...