Forgotten Weapons

3 weeks ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

Full video including range footage is available on the History of Weapons & War streaming app:https://forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/mg4-4kHeckler & 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.

3 weeks ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

The “Kevin” (sometimes called a ZP-98) was developed by Czech gunsmith Antonín Zendl and introduced at the IWA show in 2007. It was a micro-compact pocket pistol chambered for either .380 ACP or 9mm Makarov (the Kevin M). It held six rounds in its magazine, and the most notable feature is a pair of gas vent holes just in front of the barrel. These blow gas against the slide, maybe delaying its opening – and also reduce chamber pressure and velocity to reduce felt recoil.

3 weeks ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

The GHM-9 is a 9mm PCC from B&T that was developed as an economized alternative to the APC-9. It uses the same grip assembly as the APC-9, but a smaller and simpler upper receiver and a few of the other parts are simplified – like non-captive recoil springs. It has a variety of modular options and configurations, but not as many as B&T’s other offerings. Oh, and the name? It’s for GrassHopper Mouse, a creature that hunts and eats scorpions. No idea what that could be a reference to…

3 weeks ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

In the fall of 1944, the Mauser company was given a contract to develop drawings of a direct copy of the British Sten gun (code named Gerät Potsdam), and to manufacture 10,000 of them. In fact, they were to make two different sets of drawings; one suitable for large factory use (like their own) and one for use with distributed small shops making parts for final assembly elsewhere (which is how much of British Sten production was done).

4 weeks ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

The Super Shorty is a pump action shotgun reduced to a 2-round tube capacity and a 6.5″ barrel made by Serbu Firearms. The first one was made in 1998 and since then Mark Serbu has made more than 6,000 of them. There have been a bunch of minor variations, including batches made on both Remington 870 and Mossberg 500 actions, models in both 12ga and 20ga, and some with 3+1 or 4+1 capacities.