Archive for January, 2008
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.
The Rhodesian Uzi
January 24, 2008 6:04 am
This odd and unreliable weapon was manufactured in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian Revolution, and then continued to be manufactured by Kommando Arms Company. Designed for semi-automatic fire only, it is too big to be a comfortable handgun, but lacks the ability to fire in full automatic as would be expected for a submachine gun or machine pistol (however, reportedly the gun was so unreliable that it would occasionally fire bursts instead of single shots - when it wasn’t jamming). The LDP is a blowback operated 9mm based on the design of the Vz-25, the same source weapon as the famous Israeli UZI design. Versions of this weapon were made for military use, and had select-fire functionality and were known as RUZIs (Rhodesian UZIs).
AK-74 with Grenade Launcher
January 23, 2008 6:18 am
This is a great shot of a Bulgarian-made AK-74 with grenade launcher. The AK-74 is the 1970’s update of the classic AK-47 chambered in 5.45 x 39mm, and has been mated with a GP-34 40 mm under-slung grenade launcher in this photo.
Dan Wesson PPC
January 22, 2008 6:12 am
Looking like a gun out of anime, the Dan Wesson PPC is a unique-looking and very heavy weight .357 revolver. This shot really shows off the heavy weight of the barrel weight and assembly. Gorgeous.
Here’s the same gun in full profile.
Steyr-Hahn M12 9mm Automatic
January 21, 2008 6:19 am
This is a very interesting early automatic pistol. The M12 (Steyr-Hahn Model 1912) automatic was adopted by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1912 and has an 8-round internal magazine that is reloaded by stripper-clip instead of the now-standard removable magazines. It is chambered in a proprietary 9mm round, the 9 x 23 mm Steyr. Many of these automatics were raided from armories by German forces in World War II and converted to fire 9mm Parabellum.
Stretching the definition of Pistol
January 20, 2008 6:07 am
Calling this a “Pistol” is a bit of a stretch. Vector Arms builds this semi-automatic version of the “HK 51″ (which in turn is a gunsmith-modified version of the G3 to the scale of the MP5 or HK53). Firing .308 Winchester (7.62 x 51 mm NATO), this is a potent little package that looks and feels like an authentic Heckler & Koch. With a 9 inch barrel, it is slightly longer than the tradition HK 51 conversions (and four inches longer than the HK51K). The Vector V51 model shown here has a 20-round magazine - typical of the G3 source firearm.
SIG P-210 9mm Automatic
January 19, 2008 6:55 am
The SIG P-210 was originally designed in 1949 for the Swiss Army. It has become known as one of the most accurate production handguns in the world. It is a very reliable and stable heavy-framed 9mm automatic pistol with a single-stacked 8-round magazine instead of the double-stacked magazines that are standard in most modern 9mm’s. A very clean looking gun, the P-210 is something of a rarity, and is quite expensive.
