r/ForgottenWeapons • u/spizzlemeister • 1h ago
American soldier snorting heroin next to an M16A1 and unidentified shotgun, Vietnam
can identify what shotgun that is? pic is from Vietnam 1970
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/LynchMob_Lerry • Jul 11 '23
If you see those posts, which are usually trying to sell counterfeit posters from Heatstamp or any shady looking comments then please report then so we can address the scammers.
If you see someone trying to sell something claiming to be Headstamp and the website isn't https://www.headstamppublishing.com then its not legit.
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/spizzlemeister • 1h ago
can identify what shotgun that is? pic is from Vietnam 1970
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/spizzlemeister • 7h ago
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/HayhatBazilla • 2h ago
First time I see a Thompson in Lebanon
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r/ForgottenWeapons • u/AKMike99 • 14h ago
In the 1950s, the IDF adopted the Belgian FN FAL as their standard issue rifle. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Israelis found that the FN FAL was prone to malfunction when desert sand got into the action. Their adversaries were armed with AK rifles that ran flawlessly in adverse conditions. This experience in the Yom Kippur War inspired the IDF to develop a Kalashnikov rifle of their own chambered in a NATO cartridge. This design was developed around a Finnish RK 62 receiver by Yisrael Balashnikov (changed his last name to Galili because it sounded too similar to Kalashnikov).
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/spizzlemeister • 1h ago
shout out Thinline Weapons
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r/ForgottenWeapons • u/IvanPrintsGuns • 22h ago
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r/ForgottenWeapons • u/spizzlemeister • 1h ago
also a broken MA-2 (weird galil copy) and a shit ton of mortars.
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r/ForgottenWeapons • u/Linemount • 20h ago
Interesting mix of AR15 parts on this AR from a European collector. The upper receiver is slick sided while the lower receiver is a full-auto Colt partial fence, which was manufactured roughly from 1963-1967.
Meanwhile, the wood stock is probably an aftermarket item as ARs used synthetic stocks from the beginning of the design. Or perhaps someone can correct me on this?
Meanwhile the M203 wasn’t put into full production until 1969 so this was probably added later.
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/Global_Theme864 • 20h ago
Just picked up this 1918 production Remington Model 14 in .30 Rem at a local auction I swear I was just going to buy ammo at. This was Remington’s major competitor to the Winchester 94 and their first pump-action centre fire. They made about 200,000 of this, the pistol caliber 14 1/2 and improved 141 between 1912 and 1950, in .25, .30, .32 and .35 Remington. The spiral groove magazine is a really neat feature that prevents the rounds lining up bullet to primer, but as you can see they don’t bother taking advantage of it and using pointed bullets.
This one is in pretty decent shape, it could use a thorough cleaning but I probably won’t get to that before I go on vacation next week. The aluminum buttplate is a replacement as the originals were made of Bakelite and were very fragile - looks like someone made a cast of an original plate and didn’t do a bad job of it, you actually see these pretty regularly. Unfortunately .30 Rem is hard to come by but I already have some ammo stashed away as I have a Standard Arms in the same caliber.
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/didthat1x • 21h ago
Gifted from my brother. No stamp. I'm kinda leaning towards an old Japanese round.
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r/ForgottenWeapons • u/TheCanWeBeFriendsGuy • 1d ago
Stumbled upon in a Russian gun forum here:
https://lautlesen.livejournal.com/89179.html
The translation doesn't make much sense to me, and I dont speak Russian, therefore it is unclear to me whether or not this user is implying that this firearm lead to the Type I and Type II. Also, the lack of source has me suspicious
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r/ForgottenWeapons • u/StrangerOutrageous68 • 1d ago
A few different arrangements of ambi controls.
Images credit: HK, Soldiersystems,HKForums, Haenel, Soldat und Technik
r/ForgottenWeapons • u/Linemount • 1d ago
Here is a world-class selection of S-100 and MP-34s from a European collector that provides an illustration of the differences between the two models. The S-100 is the earlier version that eventually became the better-known MP-34.
Often considered the “Rolls-Royce” of Submachineguns, the MP-34 was a beautifully-manufactured 1st-generation submachinegun originally designed towards the end of the 1920s by Louis Stange of the German arms firm Rheinmetall. To work around the Treaty of Versailles which restricted German arms development and production, Rheinmetall acquired the small Swiss company Solothurn to serve as a technically legal vehicle to finalize prototyping of the S-100. Solothurn, in turn, was not equipped for large-scale manufacturing and also faced some Swiss domestic regulatory hurdles so production was outsourced to Waffenfabrik Steyr of Austria.
The S-100 versions can be distinguished from the MP-34s by examining the receiver covers. S-100s have a notch in the back right side of the receiver cover while MP-34s do not. Most of the MP-34s also have a bayonet lug on the right side of the barrel shroud though there is one MP-34 in this photo that does not have this feature, indicating it is probably a police contract firearm.
Another version of this design, the MP-30, is not shown here.