Forgotten Weapons

The tools required to manufacturer rifling in traditional ways are highly cost prohibitive. Electro-Chemical Machining (ECM) is a method where it can be done for very cheap....

This sketch depicts the marksman of the Grand International Rifle Match in the different shooting positions thought best for accuracy at the time....

Perhaps not a weapon per se, but thought people would find this neat.

February 1957, the composite barrel of one of the test rifles failed during a round of harsh endurance testing. The rifle, No.1002, had fired 5,564 rounds during the testing program. The composite failure caused the barrel to burst in the middle of the handguard, the rifle’s operator was not injured....

The Jezail is the traditional rifle of the Afghan tribal fighter, although it originated in Persia (Iran). Distinctive primarily for its uniquely curved style of buttstock, these rifles still maintain a symbolic importance although they are utterly obsolete....

The APS (Avtomat Podvodnyj Spetsialnyj) was developed in the early 1970s as a way to provide greater firepower to Russian frogmen (who had been previously armed with knives and the SPP-1M underwater pistol). It was initially used by Russian armed forces, but has also been sold on the international market since the fall of the...

Moral of the Story: The client isn't always right....

The Johnson had some interesting features – primarily its magazine design. It used a fixed 10-round rotary magazine, which could be fed by 5-round standard stripper clips or loose individual cartridges. It could also be topped up without interfering with the rifle’s action, unlike the M1. On the other hand, it was not well...

This German design features a brass cocking piece that's integrated into the trigger guard. Pulling it back would allow you to rack the slide one handed....

This rifle features a coffee grinder in its stock to allow it's wielder to grind coffee beans....

After his success with the AR 10/15/16/18 series of rifles, designer Eugene Stoner went on to develop the Stoner 63 weapons system with the Cadillac Gage company. The Stoner 63 was in many ways a natural evolution of the AR15 rifle, with a strong emphasis on modularity....

In addition to building three main patterns of straight-pull bolt action rifle for the Canadian military and the commercial market, Sir Charles Ross also experimented with self-loading rifles....

Happy Independence day to any Fins out there....

This is a wildcat cartridge, one that hasn't been adopted by any major manufacturs. It's made w/ a 10mm auto handgun round's brass case and a .338 caliber precision rifle bullet....

These G3 rifles have been retrofitted with trigger guard shells to help combat the suicide problem they had been experiencing....

Trebuchet content as requested by grrk@lemmy.ml...

Engineers this is how the end users will use your product....

Best guess on this revolver is it's a French Lefachaux model 1858....

Hi-Point Firearms likely didn't foresee the outcome of their poll when they allowed user submitted names. Yet one name won by a landslide....

A novel solution to the age old problem of 'How can I avoid getting myself killed in a fight?'....

A collector's piece, only ~13k were built of those ~900 were in this nickeled finish. This 10 rd blowback .22 was made of the space age material aluminum, resulting in it weighing 23 ounces (650 g).

Link to the video on them: https://youtu.be/psrZXa2WeQE?si=1MqolkrlDQa7dtvK