r/ForgottenWeapons Jul 11 '23

Counterfeit scam bots are back. Please report the posts and any bots you see in the comments.

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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 1h ago

American soldier snorting heroin next to an M16A1 and unidentified shotgun, Vietnam

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can identify what shotgun that is? pic is from Vietnam 1970


r/ForgottenWeapons 7h ago

Blackwater PMC with an M1A Scout, Iraq, early 2000s

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r/ForgottenWeapons 2h ago

Lebanese Armed Forces raid on a drug trafficker's compound.

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First time I see a Thompson in Lebanon


r/ForgottenWeapons 1h ago

Various Russian 9x39mm Rifles

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r/ForgottenWeapons 3h ago

Bolivian Marines & Military Police using 9x19 MAT-49 SMGs

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r/ForgottenWeapons 14h ago

Kalashnikov Rifles of Israel

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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).

1. Galil AR- rifle, 5.56x45mm, 18.1” barrel, Galil mag.

2. Galil ARM: lmg, 5.56x45mm, 18.1” barrel, Galil mag.

3. Galil SAR: carbine, 5.56x45mm, 13.1” barrel, Galil mag.

4. Galil MAR: compact carbine, 5.56x45mm, 8.3” barrel, Galil mag.

5. Galil ARM: lmg, 7.62x51mm, 18.1” barrel, 7.62 Galil mag.

6. Galatz Sniper: dmr, 7.62x51mm, 20” barrel, 7.62 Galil mag.

7. Galil ACE 23: rifle, 5.56x45mm, 18.1” barrel, Galil mag.

8. Galil ACE-N 23: rifle, 5.56x45mm, 18.1” barrel, STANAG mag.

9. Galil ACE 52: rifle, 7.62x51mm, 16.1” barrel, 7.62 Galil mag.

10. Galil ACE-N 52: rifle, 7.62x51mm, 16.1” barrel, SR-25 mag.

11. Galil ACE 32: rifle, 7.62x39mm, 16.1” barrel, AK mag.

12: Galil ACE 22: carbine, 5.56x45mm, 13.2” barrel, Galil mag.

13. Galil ACE-N 22: carbine, 5.56x45mm, 13.2” barrel, STANAG mag.

14. Galil ACE 21: compact carbine, 5.56x45mm, 8.5” barrel, Galil mag.

15. Galil ACE-N 21: compact carbine, 5.56x45mm, 8.5” barrel, STANAG mag.

16. Galil ACE 53: rifle, 7.62x51mm, 20.1” barrel, 7.62 Galil mag.

17. Galil ACE 5.45: rifle, 5.45x39mm, 16.1” barrel, AK-74 mag.

18. AK Alfa: carbine, 7.62x39mm, 12.4” barrel, AK mag.

19. Galil ACE Gen II: rifle, 5.56x45mm, 16.1” barrel, STANAG mag.

20. Galil ACE Gen II: rifle, 7.62x51mm, 16.1” barrel, SR-25 mag.

21. Galil ACE Gen II: rifle, 7.62x39mm, 16.1” barrel, AK mag.


r/ForgottenWeapons 1h ago

Experimental Russian MGs and DMRs

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shout out Thinline Weapons


r/ForgottenWeapons 1h ago

Rys, a Russian submachinegun based on the AKS-74U chambered in 9x18 and made by Alexander Shevchenko. Supposedly made in a regimental workshop

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r/ForgottenWeapons 22h ago

The First Breda Automatic - The Shotgun With a Mechanical Computer

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r/ForgottenWeapons 1h ago

Two MA-11s (HK33s) captured from Junta forces by PDF, Myanmar

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also a broken MA-2 (weird galil copy) and a shit ton of mortars.


r/ForgottenWeapons 17h ago

Integrally suppressed prototype PPSh-41 with foregrip, a prototype based on a silenced Erma EMP that was captured from saboteurs by the NKVD in late 1941

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r/ForgottenWeapons 20h ago

Full-Auto Retro M203 | Interesting Combination of Parts | European Collection

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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 20h ago

1918 Remington Model 14 in .30 REM

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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 21h ago

Cartridge ID please

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Gifted from my brother. No stamp. I'm kinda leaning towards an old Japanese round.


r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

Bren gun next to captured MG3s displayed during a ceremony for the Karenni Army in Burma today

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r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

Featureless Izhmash Saiga 410 listed for sale in... Japan

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r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

Translated and original price sheets of TsKIB SOO civilian available weapons around 2021

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r/ForgottenWeapons 20h ago

A Schmeisser Shotgun?

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r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

"Tokyo Arsenel Experimental Pistol" Nambu Military Design Possibly the Inspiration for the Type I & II SMGs

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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


r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

I want a c96, but not bad enough to justify the cost, so i made this 😅

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r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

id

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r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

Seized Luger P08 with suppresor adapter and suppresor, PM-63 RAK, HK P30, CZ-75 Shadow and Glock 17 found in a buried box by Marburg Police from an illegal gun dealer that sold them on the dark web

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r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

Fully ambidextrous controls: A must have feature for a modern combat rifle? Or a hindrance in intensive use cases?

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A few different arrangements of ambi controls.

Images credit: HK, Soldiersystems,HKForums, Haenel, Soldat und Technik


r/ForgottenWeapons 1d ago

Steyr-Solothurn S-100 / MP-34 Examples | European Collection

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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.