MG5 - Germany’s Modern Machine Gun

Previously, I wrote about the HK43 and how it eventually evolved into the MG4. From there, the design continued, leading to the HK121, better known today as the MG5. That’s where this picks up. The Heckler & Koch MG5 is Germany’s modern general-purpose machine gun, developed to re...

By Lynndon Schooler

Trump DOJ Defends NFA Gun Registry Despite Supreme Court’s Wolford Ruling

The Trump Justice Department says the Supreme Court’s Wolford decision does not meaningfully affect a constitutional challenge to the National Firearms Act. Mark Smith argues DOJ is stretching Miller, shifting the burden onto gun owners and disguising a federal firearm registry as a licensing s...

By AmmoLand Editor Duncan Johnson

POTD: The SWD M11/Nine – The Everyman’s Machine Gun, in a Briefcase

Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a true piece of Cold War Americana, packaged for a spy movie. This is an SWD M11/Nine, a 9mm submachine gun, and it comes tucked into a working “briefcase gun” rig. The lineage runs back to Gordon Ingram and the famous MAC-10 of ...

By Sam.S

Silencer Saturday #442: An ATF Numbers Update

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . This week we are looking at the latest set of processing times and transfer data from the ATF , posted on July 1. We ar...

By Daniel Y

It’s Pogue…Not POTG

Every once in a while I have to remind the youngsters that it’s spelled “Pogue” and it doesnt stand for anything. The backronym “POG” was created by infantrymen who were Pogues, but didn’t want to be called Pogues anymore. You know it’s true, there are loads ...

By Eric G

Black Arrow & Black Spear- History of Anti-Materiel Rifles From Serbia

Last year, when I was working on my book about Zastava AKs , me and fellow TFB writer Lynndon Schooler visited Zastava factory in Kragujevac, Serbia. Since then, Lynndon has published several comprehensive articles about new Zastava weapons, but there is one more firearm we saw that certainly des...

By Vladimir Onokoy
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