Forgotten Weapons

In the wake of the Civil War, the US Army recognized that many of its small arms were obsolete, and needed replacement.

With the ATF appearing to essentially throw out regulation of short-barreled rifles, should we expect a renaissance in stocked pistols?

The FN High Power pistol began with a request for a new French Army pistol.

During World War One, the US Army basically got in a personality spat with Isaac Newton Lewis, and refused to adopt the Lewis gun.

The E-series Garands were a series of prototypes made at Springfield Armory to test all sorts of different changes to the basic rifle design, from flash hiders to folding stocks.

https://youtu.be/uTrQiArjn_I Designed by Augustin Nečas in 1954, the ZKP-541 is a .22 rimfire target pistol, also called the Universal Super Rapid.

EOTech as a company was formed in 1995 as a spinoff of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor’s Environmental Research Lab, specifically to commercialize holographic weapon sights.

The US military purchased a small number of Remington Model 10 shotguns during World War One to supplement its Winchester 1897s.

Between 1952 and 1956 an Italian designer named Cesare Lercker from Bologna developed a series of pistols and submachine guns.

https://youtu.be/PwOZXF5c-nw The Tavor has a history of being popular in service with high-end Indian military and security forces, and a deal was made to manufacture the X95 domestically.

Looking for a replacement for the MAC-50, the French Gendarmerie Nationale adopted the Beretta 92 in 1987 after finding it equal in quality to the SIG P226, but less expensive.

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https://youtu.be/KVt0qeG1Wu4 Poor Bavaria got the rug pulled on its infantry rifle program a solid three times in only about 20 years.

One of the rare aircraft machine guns from the First World War is the Austro-Hungarian Schwarzlose.

The Mk12 5 inch, 38 caliber gun was one of the triumphs of American naval weaponry from World War Two.

Holograms are pretty close to space magic, but today I will try to explain how they work in an understandable way.

The Saudi Arabian government signed a contract with H&K to license domestic production of the G3 rifle at the Al Kharj factory complex in 1972.

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Designed by Bartolomeo Girardoni the in the 1770s, the Girardoni is an air rifle that can fire 20 rounds as quickly as a modern bolt action rifle.

In 1954 and 1955, the French company SOFAM (Société de Fabrication d’Armaments) in Paris marketed a system to convert bolt action rifles into submachine guns.

Aimpoint is known for its red dot optics, but in the early 2000s the company decided to develop a 3.5x fixed magnification traditional scope.

During the 1980s, the US ran the Joint Service Small Arms Program to reduce the number of different small arms in US inventory.

In 1872, two Austro-Hungarian military officers named Julius Payer and Carl Weyprecht set out on an expedition to find a northeast passage to reach the Orient by traversing across the Arctic Ocean above Russia.

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Submachine guns made their entrance into military thinking during World War One.

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