Barrett Light 50 Service Rifle
July 22, 2008 11:54 am
The Barrett Model 82 is the most recognized 50 caliber anti-material rifle in the world. In 2005 the US Army officially designated a version of the M82 the M107 and approved it for full material release. The M107 fires a variety of .50BMG rounds and has a listed range of 1,500m, with record shots at the 2,500m range. It is a heavy semi-automatic shoulder-fired sniper rifle designed for an anti-material role.
It has a few changes from the classic M82, with a rear grip and monopod socket as well as a lengthened accessory rail. It is also equipped with a “Leupold 4.5×14 vary X scope”.
BUL M-5 Automatic Race Gun
June 3, 2008 10:08 am
The BUL M-5 is an M1911A1-style automatic manufactured by BUL firearms in Isreal. It is available in a variety of calibers and can be switched between them by swapping barrels, springs, magazines and possibly the slide (to 9×19mm Para, 9×21mm IMI, .38Super, .40SW, and of course .45ACP) . The M-5s have become quite popular in the competitive shooting circuits.
French FAMAS-F1
May 30, 2008 6:59 am
The “Fusil d’Assaut de la Manufacture d’Armes de St-Etienne” is a bullpup 5.56mm rifle adopted by the French military and also exported in small numbers to Senegal and the United Arab Emirates. Unusual amongst 5.56mm assault rifles in NATO usage, the FAMAS-F1 uses a proprietary 25-round magazine instead of the NATO-standard 30-round STANAG magazine. The new version now in production by GIAT (the FAMAS-G2) uses STANAG magazines as well as incorporating several other improvements.
The Tommy Gun Returns
May 28, 2008 8:10 am
The classic Thompson 1927’s are back from Auto-Ordnance, this time being sold as a “lightweight deluxe pistol”. The TA5 sports a 10.5 inch barrel and the classic 50 round drum magazine, chambered in .45 ACP. 10 and 30 round stick magazines are available as well as the heavy-weight 100 round drum. From the specs, this looks to be a close remake of the classic Thompson in inner workings and even includes the classic walnut furniture. A very pretty piece of hardware.
Russian Bizon 9mm Helical-Feed SMG
May 26, 2008 2:32 pm
The PP-19 Bizon was the Russian implementation of the Calico weapon design, designed by the son of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the legendary creator of the AK-47. It uses a helical 64-round magazine mounted below the body of the weapon, and otherwise retains the standard design of the source firearms - the Kalashnikov AK-74 assault rifles. Supposedly some early models had an ammunition counter built into the magazine. The standard Bizon 2 SMG is chambered in 9mm x 18mm Makarov, but variants exist chambered in 9 x 17mm Browning Shor (.380 Automatic), 9 x 19mm Parabellum and 7.62 x 25mm Tokarev.
Austro-Hungarian Gasser Revolver
May 24, 2008 9:09 am
The Gasser Army revolver was an open-framed heavy-bore revolver from the late 19th Century that was adopted as the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry revolver as the Gasser M1870. It holds five rounds of 11.2mm centrefire, a long heavy round known as the 11mm Montenegrin that was used in the earlier Fruwirth carbines.
Bond, James Bond
January 28, 2008 6:03 am
When Bond’s Beretta 418 caught in his holster on one mission, it was decided that he should switch guns to the Walther PPK chambered in 7.65mm Browning (.32 ACP). The PPK was introduced in the 20’s in Germany and was the smaller version of the Walther PP line of automatics, aimed at undercover police work. It’s a fairly standard blow-back operated double-action semi-automatic with a single-stacked magazine. It holds seven rounds in the magazine. It is also available in .380 ACP with a six-round magazine.
Walther’s new PPK
January 27, 2008 6:39 am
Okay, so those of you who read this regularly are looking at this and going “cripes, he’s posting another Walther P-something…” And you are right. The PPS (Police Pistol, Slim) is Walther’s new 9mm entry, and is one of the slimmest 9mms in the world. It’s being marketed to police and security forces in Europe, but in the US you can excet that this will instead see a lot of concealed carry. It comes factory-standard with a six-shot single-stack magazine and a seven-shot magazine with an extended base plate (shown in the photo above). The gun is only a little bigger than the classic Walther PPK and certainly looks pretty.
Walther MPK
January 26, 2008 6:16 am
The Walther MP-series of submachine guns went in to production in Germany in 1963, and was adopted by some German police forces and the Mexican Navy. However sales were never strong and this select-fire submachine gun went out of production in 1983. The gun exists in two configurations, the MPL (Long) and MPK (Kurtz) - the only difference being in barrel length. Shown here is the Walther MPK with the folding stock extended and 32-round magazine.
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
January 25, 2008 6:07 am
Remington Rand didn’t just make razors. The company is actually most famous for making the original UNIVAC 1 computer, but during World War II, Remington Rand produced more licensed M1911A1s than any other wartime manufacturer. The gun itself in this photo is a classic M1911A1 - but the photo is awesome; true gunporn.
