Category: Weapons Education

The 20 mm caliber is a specific size of cannon or auto-cannon ammunition. There are few weapons (aside from shotguns, large game hunting rifles, and heavy caliber muzzleloading “rampart” or “wall guns” popular in the early mid 19th century European militaries) which have been built that fire projectiles between 12.7mm (such as the 12.7mm NATO) and […]

Next Future : Most Advanced Helicopters of U.S Army – Full Documentary Future Vertical Lift (FVL) is a program to develop a family of helicopters for the United States Armed Forces. Four different sizes of aircraft are to be developed. They are to share common hardware such as sensors, avionics, engines, and countermeasures. FVL is […]

Video showing the powerful German Panzerhaubitze 2000 (PzH 2000) in action during Joint Operations training with US military at Grafenwoehr Training Area. The video also show US M777 artillery and US M109 Paladin in action. Last part of the video show US Soldiers from 101st Airborne Division during live fire training exercise at Fort Campbell […]

Most everyone is familiar with the Luger pistol – it is one of the most iconic handgun designs ever made. Folks who have a passing interest in the guns will probably know about both the standard Army model (the P08) and the long-barreled Artillery model (the lP08, with its shoulder stock and snail drum magazine […]

This is one of the more practical knife/pistol combinations I have seen – it actually has a pretty reasonable grip when used in either capacity. It has two muzzle loading smooth bore barrels, with a percussion cap hidden under each top ear of the crossguard and a folding trigger in the body of the grip. […]

The Pancor Jackhammer was a select-fire combat shotgun designed by John Andersen in the 1980s. He was a Korean War veteran who had used a pump shotgun in combat, and while he liked the shotgun concept, he felt there must be a more efficient way to make a shotgun than a single-loading pump action. The […]

The Bren Ten is an interesting story of handgun development and business failure. The gun was first developed by Dornaus & Dixon, with the consulting help of the iconic Col. Jeff Cooper. It was intended to be a handgun to improve upon the venerable 1911 in every way. To satisfy the adherents to the theory […]

The Japanese semiauto rifle trials of the early 1930s had a total of four entrants – Kijiro Nambu and his company, Tokyo Gas & Electric, the Tokyo Army Arsenal, and Nippon Special Steel. This rifle is one of the third iteration of the design from Nippon Special Steel. It is a design based originally on […]

Fun Gun Reviews Presents: The Stinger Pen Gun Model 2 in 25 acp. The only Pen Gun that the ATF recognizes as a pistol and not an NFA A.O.W. (Any Other Weapon). Made from the early ’90’s until 2004. The reason that it is not considered an NFA A.O.W. is because it breaks in half […]

James Reid was a New York gunsmith best known for his “My Friend” knuckleduster revolvers, but before he devised the idea for those he was working in New York City making traditional style revolvers. This particular one is a Number 2 pattern example, a .32 caliber, 7-shot rimfire revolver. These were manufactured in violation of […]