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.

Categories: Rifle
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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.

Categories: Carbine, Submachine Gun
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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.

Categories: Submachine Gun
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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.

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