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Save the Date! Moons Out 2026: March 6-8

2 days ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

Save the Date! Moons Out 2026: March 6-8 VIDEOMark your calendars; Moons Out 2026 will be March 6-8 at the Echo Valley Training Center, in WV. Practiscore registration will open December 1:https://practiscore.com/moons-out-26/register
M1922 BAR Cavalry Light Machine Gun

3 days ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

After World War One, there was a lot of tinkering with the BAR by the US military. It was recognized as being a very good platform, but the original M1918 configuration left a lot to be desired. It was deemed to heavy to use effectively form the shoulder, but also not really well suited to sustained fire. In an effort to optimize it for use as a dynamic support weapon by a small squad, the Infantry & Cavalry Board requested a model with a heavier barrel and lightweight bipod in 1920.
Model 1875 Officer’s Pattern: The Finest Trapdoor Springfield

5 days ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

As the main national armory, Springfield got a number of requests to make specialty rifles for commissioned officers and important dignitaries each year. These were essentially all custom sporting rifles, and the orders were duly filled. In 1875, however, the decision was made to standardize a formal pattern of Officer’s rifle – the Model 1875. This was mechanically a standard Trapdoor Springfield, but made to a very high standard of fit and finish.
Herman Brevete: A Pepperbox Hidden in Your Bicycle Handlebars

6 days ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

In the 1890s, there was a lot of interest in small caliber, simple revolvers for self-defense by cyclists, primarily against dogs. This led to the creation of a whole category of “velodog” revolvers, and a Belgian designer named Herman patented this extension of the idea. It is a 6-shot, 5mm pinfire revolver that is mounted on the handlebars of a bicycle, locked in place and not obviously a gun, but easily removed for one-handed use.
Voere SAM-180 – Semiautomatic American 180 SMG Made in Austria? - Forgotten Weapons

1 week ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

The American 180 is a .22LR machine gun that fires at a high rate (1300 rpm more or less) from a super-high-capacity magazine (177 rounds). Conceptually it was designed by Richard Casull in the 1960s, but he only produced about 70 of his original M290 design. He sold the rights to the design, and in 1972 an Austrian company called Voere bought a license to it.
Springfield Kuna: Croatia’s New Delayed-Blowback PCC/SMG

1 week ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

The Kuna is a delayed-blowback 9mm pistol/PCC/submachine gun developed by HS Produkt in Croatia and marketed int he US by Springfield Armory. Development on it began in 2020 as a commercial project, but probably also with an eye to military and law enforcement sales. The Croatian police are currently using quite old MP5 submachine guns that will need to be replaced soon, and having a domestic option seems like an obvious play for HS Produkt.
Experimental AG-42B Conversion to 7.62mm NATO

1 week ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

Circa 1954, Sweden was starting to look for a new self-loading rifle to adopt for its infantry. The 6.5x55mm cartridge was a good round, but the idea of having ammunition compatibility with its neighbors was appealing, and NATO was standardizing on the new 7.62x51mm round. This rifle is an experimental conversion of a Ljungman to the NATO cartridge, which included replacing the original simple gas impingement system with a short-stroke piston.
Domestic Burmese G3s: BA64 Rifle and BA-72 Carbine

1 week ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

After achieving independence from the British, Burma (now Myanmar) looked to develop a domestic small arms industry to supply its armed forces. The first weapon produced there was the BA-52, a copy of (how they chose this I don’t know) the Italian TZ-45 submachine gun. By the late 1950s, talks were underway with Rheinmetall and H&K to license production of the G3 at a factory being built with German technical assistance.
One of a Kind Prototype vz.38 Pistol in .32ACP

1 week ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

When CZ developed the vz.38 pistol for the Czechoslovak military, they made a number of attempts to also sell it on the international export market. This involved offering some various changes in configuration for different clients – in this case, scaling it down from .380ACP to .32 ACP. It also has a manual safety, another feature absent on the domestic military model but included in export variants. This example is the only known one produced in .32 caliber, and it has the serial number 100001.
KH-9: B&T Remakes the SITES Spectre Just Because It’s Cool

2 weeks ago | forgottenweapons.com | Ian McCollum

Karl Brügger, CEO of B&T, is a true gun nerd and avid competitive shooter. When he got his hands on the Spectre SMG with its quad-stack magazine and weird DA/decocker fire control system, he thought it was really neat. So neat that he decided to buy the project from its Italian creators and put it back into production. But they had thrown out all the drawings and tooling when the gun wasn’t successful, and so Brügger had to recreate it from scratch on his own.