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Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1992
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- First Edition
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Wraps. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.25 inches byn 11 inches. 60 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Among the topics covered are: Scattergun Technologies, Bill Vallerand, MP41 Submachine Gun, Larand.22 Suppressor, Browning automa…tic Rifle 1918A2, BAR, TREXPO, Al Paulson, Dan Shea, Noel Napolilli, Dick Morin, Shawn Daniel, Robert Hausman. This publication was prominent during the 1990s but from all available information has ceased publication and does not appear to have been merged into a successor publication. Dan Shea became the founder of the firearms research magazines Small Arms Review, Small Arms Defense Journal, and the training/supply company Phoenix Defense (formerly Long Mountain Outfitters) . He was a recipient of the much respected Chinn Award, thereby honoring "a government or industry individual who, in the opinion of the Small Arms Committee Executive Board, has made significant contributions to the field of small arms and/or infantry weapons systems".The award is only given out once a year and the recipients almost read like a who's who of Infantry small arms design and innovation or contributing research. Robert Hausman was employed in publishing and wrote articles and edited the trade magazines,Machine Gun News, New Firearms Business and the International Firearms Trade, for many years. He owned two gun businesses. He was a member of the NRA. A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire. Automatic firearms of 0.79 inches caliber or more are classified as autocannons rather than machine guns. As a class of military kinetic projectile weapons, machine guns are designed to be mainly used as infantry support weapons and generally used when attached to a bipod or tripod, a fixed mount or a heavy weapons platform for stability against recoil. Many machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on other infantry firearms. Machine guns can be further categorized as light machine guns, medium machine guns, heavy machine guns, general-purpose machine guns, and squad automatic weapons. Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per round fired, a machine gun is designed to continue firing for as long as the trigger is held down. Nowadays, the term is restricted to relatively heavy crew-served weapons, able to provide continuous or frequent bursts of automatic fire for as long as ammunition feeding is replete. Machine guns are used against infantry, low-flying aircraft, small boats and lightly/unarmored land vehicles, and can provide suppressive fire (either directly or indirectly) or enforce area denial over a sector of land with grazing fire. They are commonly mounted on fast attack vehicles such as technicals to provide heavy mobile firepower, armored vehicles such as tanks for engaging targets too small to justify the use of the primary weaponry or too fast to effectively engage with it, and on aircraft as defensive armament or for strafing ground targets, though on fighter aircraft true machine guns have mostly been supplanted by large-caliber rotary guns. Some machine guns have in practice sustained fire almost continuously for hours; other automatic weapons overheat after less than a minute of use. Because they become very hot, the great majority of designs fire from an open bolt, to permit air cooling from the breech between bursts. They also usually have either a barrel cooling system, slow-heating heavyweight barrel, or removable barrels which allow a hot barrel to be replaced. Although subdivided into "light", "medium", "heavy" or "general-purpose", even the lightest machine guns tend to be substantially larger and heavier than standard infantry arms. Medium and heavy machine guns are either mounted on a tripod or on a vehicle; when carried on foot, the machine gun and associated equipment (tripod, ammunition, spare barrels) require additional crew members. Light machine. Mark Wallace (Contributing Artist) and Dick Morin (illustrator).
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1994
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- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 64 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are Combat Arms Survey, Firearms Rights, A Conversation with Doug Oefinger, Suppressed Ruger Mark II, M60, MG42, and the Tommygun. DLO Manufacturing (Douglas Lawrence Oefinger) was a Class 2 manufacturer from the "Second Wave" of Class 2. DLO employed 2 workers other than Doug for approximately 4 years. Doug Oefinger's contributions to the Class 3 community have been impressive. He has a somewhat combative personality and sticks up for his beliefs at all levels- and is quick to point out that to this date, he has proven his points. The Mark II is chambered in 22 Long Rifle and was manufactured from 1982 to 2005. The operation of the Mark II is a bit different from what you might be used to on a modern day semi-automatic handgun. First, there is no mag release on the left hand side of the gun. Instead, to eject the magazine, you have to push in a little tab on the base of the grip and pull the magazine free. This gun is not intended for self-defense, where you might need to do a quick mag change. It's a target pistol, basically intended for range use only. The MG 42 (shortened from German: Maschinengewehr 42, or "machine gun 42") is a German recoil-operated air-cooled general-purpose machine gun used extensively by the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the second half of World War II. Entering production in 1942, it was intended to supplement and replace the earlier MG 34, which was more expensive and took much longer to produce, but both weapons were produced until the end of World War II. Designed to use the standard German fully-powered 7.92×57mm Mauser rifle round and to be cheaper and easier to manufacture, the MG 42 proved to be highly reliable and easy to operate. It is most notable for its very high cyclic rate for a gun using full-power service cartridges: it averaged about 1,200 rounds per minute, compared to around 850 for the MG 34, and 450 to 600 for other common machine guns like the M1919 Browning, FM 24/29, or Bren gun. This made it extremely effective in providing suppressive fire. Its unique sound led to it being nicknamed "Hitler's buzzsaw". The MG 42 was adopted by several armed organizations after the war, and was both copied and built under licence. The MG 42's lineage continued past Nazi Germany's defeat, forming the basis for the nearly identical MG1 (MG 42/59), chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO, which subsequently evolved into the MG1A3, and later the Bundeswehr's MG 3, Italian MG 42/59, and Austrian MG 74. In Yugoslavia, an unlicensed, near-identical copy was produced as the Zastava M53. The MG 42 lent many design elements to the Swiss MG 51 and SIG MG 710-3, French AA-52, American M60, the Belgian MAG general-purpose machine guns, and the Spanish 5.56×45mm NATO Ameli light machine gun. The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a disintegrating belt of M13 links. There are several types of ammunition approved for use in the M60, including ball, tracer, and armor-piercing rounds. It was adopted in 1960 and issued to units later that year. It has served with every branch of the U.S. military and still serves with the armed forces of other nations. Its manufacture and continued upgrade for military and commercial purchase continues into the 21st century, although it has been replaced or supplemented in most roles by other designs, most notably the M240 machine gun in U.S. service. The M60 machine gun began development in the late 1940s as a program for a new, lighter 7.62 mm machine gun. It was partly derived from German guns of World War II (most notably the FG 42 and the MG 42), but it contained American innovations as well. The final e.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1994
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Wraps. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches. 64 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Among the topics covered are: An ATF Internal Document, The Smooth Bore H&R Handy-Gun by Eric Larson; Model "1" Sales by Dan Shea;… An Up-Reising! by Frank Iannamico; The Interview: Peter G. Kokalis; D-Day Reenactment by William Conville. Peter Kokalis was born on June 20, 1934 in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University and later served his country as a member of the US Army. In 1962, the family moved to Phoenix. Peter found a calling as a photojournalist and worked as an editor for Soldier of Fortune and Firearms News, authoring hundreds of articles over 35 years. Peter was an avid reader and collector of military memorabilia. William Conville provided the nicely illustrated article on the D-Day Reenactment held at Fort Story, Virginia on the 50th anniversary of the assault. A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire. Automatic firearms of 0.79 inches caliber or more are classified as autocannons rather than machine guns. As a class of military kinetic projectile weapons, machine guns are designed to be mainly used as infantry support weapons and generally used when attached to a bipod or tripod, a fixed mount or a heavy weapons platform for stability against recoil. Many machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on other infantry firearms. Machine guns can be further categorized as light machine guns, medium machine guns, heavy machine guns, general-purpose machine guns, and squad automatic weapons. Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per round fired, a machine gun is designed to continue firing for as long as the trigger is held down. Nowadays, the term is restricted to relatively heavy crew-served weapons, able to provide continuous or frequent bursts of automatic fire for as long as ammunition feeding is replete. Machine guns are used against infantry, low-flying aircraft, small boats and lightly/unarmored land vehicles, and can provide suppressive fire (either directly or indirectly) or enforce area denial over a sector of land with grazing fire. They are commonly mounted on fast attack vehicles such as technicals to provide heavy mobile firepower, armored vehicles such as tanks for engaging targets too small to justify the use of the primary weaponry or too fast to effectively engage with it, and on aircraft as defensive armament or for strafing ground targets, though on fighter aircraft true machine guns have mostly been supplanted by large-caliber rotary guns. Some machine guns have in practice sustained fire almost continuously for hours; other automatic weapons overheat after less than a minute of use. Because they become very hot, the great majority of designs fire from an open bolt, to permit air cooling from the breech between bursts. They also usually have either a barrel cooling system, slow-heating heavyweight barrel, or removable barrels which allow a hot barrel to be replaced. Although subdivided into "light", "medium", "heavy" or "general-purpose", even the lightest machine guns tend to be substantially larger and heavier than standard infantry arms. Medium and heavy machine guns are either mounted on a tripod or on a vehicle; when carried on foot, the machine gun and associated equipment (tripod, ammunition, spare barrels) require additional crew members. Light machine guns are designed to provide mobile fire support to a squad and are typically air-cooled weapons fitted with a box magazine or drum and a bipod; they may use full-size rifle rounds, but modern examples often use intermediate rounds. Medium machine guns use full-sized rifle rounds and are designed to be used from fixed positions mounted on a tripod. The term heavy machine gun originated in World War I to describe heavyweight medium machine guns, and persisted into World War II with. Trevor Choat (Cover photo) (illustrator).
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1995
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 60 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are CZ247 Submachine Gun, Fabricate Tokarev, Cartridge, Johnson Model 1941, Light Machine Gun, MP5, M11. The CZ247 was developed for Czechoslovakia's post-war submachine gun trials, where it was pitted against the ZB47. It was a simple blowback 9x19mm SMG with a number of interesting elements, most notably the ability to fire with the magazine either vertical or horizontal. This made the gun more compact for use in a jungle sort of environment or to allow a shooter to get much lower to the ground when shooting prone. The CZ247 also has a neat safety mechanism for preventing unintended firing and a stripper clip guide built into the stock (both of which would be incorporated in the vz.48 SMG that was adopted). When the CZ247 failed to win the military trials, CZ got government permission to sell it on the export market. Czechoslovakia opted to support Israel in its declaration of independence in 1948, and the government decided to not send weapons to Egypt which might be used against Israel. This left the guns sitting in CZ warehouses, and the basically all stayed there for a few decades. Eventually most were sold to Nigeria in 1967 and Ethiopian in 1977 and as a result they show up occasionally in African and Middle Eastern conflict zones to this day. The M1941 Johnson Rifle is an American short-recoil operated semi-automatic rifle designed by Melvin Johnson prior to World War II. The M1941 unsuccessfully competed with the contemporary M1 Garand rifle but was used in limited numbers by the US Marines during the Second World War. A widely held belief among US soldiers (when surveyed in 1952, 27% of soldiers held this opinion) was that the M1 Garand's distinctive clip ejection sound, the well-known "M1 ping", presented a danger when fighting an enemy force, as the sound could signal that the soldier's M1 rifle was empty. Regardless of any anecdotal beliefs, and despite the popularity of the story, there are no verified cases of an enemy using the "M1 ping" sound to their advantage up through the Korean War. Despite the several advantages the Johnson Rifle design had over the M1 Garand rifle, the existing disadvantages were too great to change US rifle production from the M1 Garand. The Johnson's short recoil reciprocating barrel mechanism resulted in excessive vertical shot dispersion that was never fully cured during its production life.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1997
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- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 72 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are SA80 Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Medea M3A1 Grease Gun, Knob Creek, Subgun Match. The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a British family of 5.56×45mm NATO service weapons used by the British Army. The L85 Rifle variant has been the standard issue service rifle of the British Armed Forces since 1987, replacing the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle. The prototypes were created in 1976, with production of the A1 variant starting in 1985 and ending in 1994. The A2 variant came to be as the result of a significant upgrade in the early 2000s by Heckler & Koch and remains in service as of 2025. The A3 variant was first issued in 2018 with several new improvements. The remainder of the SA80 family consists of the L86 Light Support Weapon, the short-barrelled L22 Carbine and the L98 Cadet rifle. The SA80 was the last in a long line of British weapons (including the LeeEnfield family) to come from the Royal Small Arms Factory, the national arms development and production facility at Enfield Lock, before its weapons factory was closed down in 1988. October 2021 was the final machine gun shoot at the Knob Creek range--ending a fifty year tradition. Medea M3A1 built by Robert Naess from Black River Militaria. It was built using an original Ithica parts kit, everything is original to the gun except for the Medea registered receiver. It's been test fired by Robert.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1993
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- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 60 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are The Austen by Jim Ballou; Jim Ryan's MP5 Suppressor, Subgun Match, Security and Alarm Systems, Interview with Sandra Froman by Seth Nadle, and the North Carolina Military Museum by Dan Shea. The Austen (from "Australian Sten") is a 9×19mm Australian submachine gun derived from the British Sten gun developed during the Second World War. In total 19,914 Austens were produced during the war by Diecasters Ltd of Melbourne and W. T. Carmichael Ltd of Sydney. An interesting production feature of the Austen was that some parts were manufactured by the diecasting process. These parts were the magazine housing, part of the mechanism for the stock and the forward half of the magazine. The magazine loader was also diecast. The two firms manufacturing the Austen were specialist diecasting companies. The North Carolina Military Museum was the brainchild of Greg Pruess who helped with its creation. It does not appear to be currently in independent operation but may have merged with another museum. This article may be one of the few overviews of the museum and its weaponry collection that was produced. Greg Pruess is the inventor of the DRAM ( Dual Role Adapter Mount) Night vision adapter system that allows the PVS-7 series Night vision goggles to be weapons mountable to any Rail weapon. Sandra S. "Sandy" Froman (born June 15, 1949) is an American author, attorney, professional speaker, and a past President of the National Rifle Association of America. Froman was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics with distinction from Stanford University in 1971 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1974. She has been a practicing attorney since that time, has been a partner in three separate law firms and also taught at law school. Froman serves on the boards of the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona, as well as Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Froman is a member of the NRA Board of Directors, on which she has served since 1992, and the co-chair of the Tim Bee Congressional Exploratory Committee. In 2007, she was unanimously elected to a lifetime appointment on the NRA Executive Council. She is currently a practicing attorney and international speaker. Her contributions also appear on WorldNetDaily and Townhalldotcom. She served as 2nd Vice President of the NRA for five years under Charlton Heston, two years as 1st Vice President, and was elected to the NRA presidency in April 2005. She completed her second term in April 2007. The NRA Bylaws limit presidents to two terms (Heston was made an exception). Froman speaks and writes regularly on the importance of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. She portrays the NRA to be a civil rights organization that emphasizes the importance of the right of self-defense for women and minorities. She is an advocate for the appointment of judicial conservatives as federal judges, stressing the need for judges and Supreme Court justices that are faithful to the original meaning of the constitutional text and confine themselves to the judicial role of interpreting and applying the law faithfully, not using the courts to promote personal policy preferences or advance political agendas.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1995
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 64 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are M42 "Gustav" 20, Recoilless Rifle; Silencer Technology by Brugger and Thomet Feinmechanik; Ruger Rifles; M60E4, and Saco Defense. The Carl Gustaf 20 mm recoilless rifle, service name 20 mm pansarvärnsgevär m/42, meaning "20 mm antitank rifle model 1942", was the first recoilless rifle produced by Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori. The weapon had a penetration of just over 4 cm RHA with its standard solid shot armour piercing projectile and quickly became obsolete against modern armour, leading to the development of higher caliber recoilless guns, eventually resulting in the Carl Gustaf 84 mm recoilless rifle in 1948. The M60, officially the Machine Gun, Caliber 7.62 mm, M60, is a family of American general-purpose machine guns firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges from a disintegrating belt of M13 links. The M60E4 (improved variant, designated as the Mk 43 Mod 0 by the U.S. Navy). There are several types of ammunition approved for use in the M60. It was adopted in 1960 and issued to units later that year. It has served with every branch of the U.S. military and still serves with the armed forces of other nations. Its manufacture and continued upgrade continues into the 21st century, although it has been replaced or supplemented in most roles by other designs, most notably the M240 machine gun in U.S. service. A silencer, also known as a sound suppressor, suppressor, or sound moderator, is a muzzle device that suppresses the blast created when a gun (firearm or airgun) is discharged, thereby reducing the acoustic intensity of the muzzle report (sound of a gunshot) and jump, by modulating the speed and pressure of the propellant gas released from the muzzle. Like other muzzle devices, a silencer can be a detachable accessory mounted to the muzzle or an integral part of the barrel. A typical silencer is a metallic (usually stainless steel or titanium) cylinder containing numerous internal sound baffles, with a hollow bore to allow the bullet to exit normally. During firing, the bullet passes through the bore with little hindrance, but most of the expanding gas ejecta behind it is redirected through a longer and convoluted escape path created by the baffles, prolonging the release time. This slows down the gas and dissipates its kinetic energy into a larger surface area, reducing the blast intensity, thus lowering the loudness. Silencers can also reduce the recoil during shooting, but unlike a muzzle brake or a recoil compensator, which reduce recoil by vectoring the muzzle blast sideways, silencers release almost all the gases towards the front. However, the internal baffles significantly prolong the time of the gas release and thereby decrease the rearward thrust generated, as for the same impulse, force is inversely proportional to time. The weight of the silencer itself and the leverage of its mounting location (at the far front end of the barrel) will also help counter muzzle rise. Because the internal baffles will slow and cool the released gas and contain gunpowder that is still burning upon exit from the muzzle, silencers also reduce or even eliminate the muzzle flash. This is different from a flash suppressor, which reduces the amount of flash by dispersing burning gases that are already released outside the muzzle, without necessarily reducing sound or recoil. A flash hider, or muzzle shroud, in contrast, conceals visible flashes by screening them from the direct line of sight, rather than reducing the intensity of the flash.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1993
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- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 60 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are Sturmgewehr 44 by Al Paulson and Noel Naopolilli; Steyr MP 69 and MP 81 UZI by Chad Haire; American Armoured Foundation by Robert Hausman; An interview with Ken Hackathorn; Restoration of the M2A1-2 WWII Flame Thrower by Charles Hobson, the WWI Ordnance Experimental Squad, and Norrell's Ultimate Integral 9 mm Suppressor by Al Paulson. The name "Hackathorn" strikes a chord of respect among the pantheon of firearms enthusiasts and instructors. Ken Hackathorn, was a formative force behind three-gun competitions as we know them today and is a founding member of two competitive shooting titans, the International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) and the International Defensive Pistol Association (IDPA). His status as a former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier and a certified deputy sheriff only furthers his real-world credibility. He has taught everyone from local SWAT teams and federal law enforcement agencies to special operation forces and elite units in nations around the globe. He has served as a consultant for Glock, Heckler & Koch, and Smith & Wesson, teaches classes through Alias Training & Security Services, and is one of BCM's vaunted Gunfighters. Wilson Combat designed the Hackathorn Special 1911 to honor the master and his love of the iconic handgun. The American Armoured Foundation Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Danville, Virginia that is dedicated to preserving the history of armoured vehicles and educating the public about their role in military history. The foundation was established in 1996 and has since grown to become a leading organization in the field. The foundation's main focus is on maintaining a vast collection of armoured vehicles from around the world, including tanks, personnel carriers, and artillery pieces. These vehicles are displayed in the foundation's museum, which is open to the public and offers visitors a unique opportunity to see these vehicles up close and learn about their history and significance. In addition to its museum, the American Armoured Foundation Inc. also offers educational programs and resources for schools and other organizations. These programs include lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities that help students learn about the role of armoured vehicles in military history. The M2 flamethrower was an American, man-portable, backpack flamethrower that was used in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The M2 was the successor to the M1 and M1A1 flamethrowers. Although its burn time was around 7 seconds long, and the flames were effective around 2040 meters, it was still a useful weapon. With the arrival of flamethrower tanks, the need for flamethrower-carrying infantrymen to expose themselves to enemy fire had been greatly reduced. Though some M2s were sold off, the majority were scrapped. The StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, "assault rifle 44")[a] is a German assault rifle developed during World War II by Hugo Schmeisser. It is also known by its early designations as the MP 43 and MP 44 (Maschinenpistole 43 and 44). The StG 44 was an improvement of an earlier design, the Maschinenkarabiner 42(H). The StG 44 was the first successful assault rifle, with features including an intermediate cartridge, controllable automatic fire, a more compact design than a battle rifle with a higher rate of fire, and being designed primarily for hitting targets within a few hundred metres. Other rifles at the time were designed to hit targets at greater ranges, but this was found to be in excess of the range in which most enemy engagements actually took place. The StG 44 fulfilled its role effectively, particularly on the Eastern Front, offering a greatly increased volume of fire compared.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1994
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 64 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are Colt, OSS 9mm Grease Gun, Stechkin Machine Pistol, WWI Metallic Belts, and French Silencieux Unique. No one ever used the words "graceful" or "elegant" to describe the M3 submachine gun. Instead, those soldiers, sailors and Marines who carried it called the M3 a "plumber's nightmare" or "the cake decorator." Its passing resemblance to a mechanic's lubrication tool, however, led to the weapon's most common and enduring nickname: "grease gun." As early as 1940, officials in the United States Army Ordnance Department began to prepare for the enormous rearmament program their nation would have to undertake if it was to win victory in the approaching world war. Certain specialized troops such as paratroopers and vehicle crewmen often required a compact, hard-hitting submachine gun for short-range work. Sometime in late 1940, an Army committee recommended the U.S. military develop a more modern submachine gun. An uncomplicated design, the M3 submachine gun consisted of only 73 separate parts. Just two major pieces (the bolt and barrel) required costly machining; almost everything else was either pressed or stamped from sheet metal. Extensive use was made of spot welding, a technique that hastened assembly but forever ruined the weapon's aesthetic appeal. The Stechkin or APS (Avtomaticheskiy Pistolet Stechkina) is a Soviet selective fire machine pistol that is chambered in 9×18mm Makarov and 9×19mm Parabellum. It was introduced into service in 1951 for use by artillery and mortar crews, tank crews and aircraft personnel, for whom a cumbersome assault rifle was deemed unnecessary, and saw service in a number of wars including the Vietnam War, Russo-Ukrainian War and Syrian Civil War. The APS was praised for its innovative concept and good controllability for its size. However, the high cost of the weapon, complex and time-consuming machining, combined with a limited effective range, large size and weight for a pistol, and fragile buttstock have been mentioned as a reason to phase it out of active service in favor of assault rifles such as the AKS-74U. The pistol bears the name of its developer, Igor Stechkin. Metallic belts from World War I were primarily used by soldiers for utility and support. They served various functions, including carrying equipment and providing a secure fit for uniforms. Types of Metallic Belts: Webbing Belts: Often made from durable materials, these belts featured metal buckles and were used for carrying ammunition and gear. Leather Belts: Some soldiers used leather belts with metal fittings for added strength and durability. Features: Buckles: Metal buckles were common, allowing for easy adjustment and secure fastening. Attachment Points: Many belts included hooks or loops for attaching pouches and other gear. Historical Context: Metallic belts were part of the standard military uniform and varied by country and unit. They reflect the practical needs of soldiers during trench warfare, where mobility and access to equipment were crucial.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1993
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Wraps. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11 inches. 60 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Among the topics covered are: The Waco Standoff by Carlton Stowers; Development of the First Assault Rifle Sturmgewehr 44 by Al Pa…ulson; In the Sights of a Weapon Genius by Richard Lewis; The C&S Metall-Werkes, MP5 72-Round Drum by Chris Choat; The AK 47 "Rate Reducer" by Ken Carter; The Second Annual Utah Subgun Shoot by Steve Parker; and The Care and Feeding of Suppressors by Mark White. The Waco standoff, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by federal government and state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging to the religious cult known as the Branch Davidians, between February 28 and April 19, 1993. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) obtained a search warrant for the compound and arrest warrants for Koresh and several of the group's members. Carlton Stowers was associated with Amarillo Daily News,1966-69, Lubbock Avalanche Journal, 1970-73; freelance writer, 1974-76; Dallas Morning News, sportswriter and columnist, 1976-81; writer and associate producer of, weekly series "Countdown to 84," USA Cable network, 1984; staff writer for Dallas Observer, 2000. AWARDS, HONORS: Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime Book, Mystery Writers of America, 1986, for Careless Whispers, and 1999, for To the Last Breath; Oppie Award for Reporting, Southwestern Booksellers, 1986, for Careless Whispers; Violent Crown Book Award, nonfiction category, and Writers' League of Texas, 2002. A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire. Automatic firearms of 0.79 inches caliber or more are classified as autocannons rather than machine guns. As a class of military kinetic projectile weapons, machine guns are designed to be mainly used as infantry support weapons and generally used when attached to a bipod or tripod, a fixed mount or a heavy weapons platform for stability against recoil. Many machine guns also use belt feeding and open bolt operation, features not normally found on other infantry firearms. Machine guns can be further categorized as light machine guns, medium machine guns, heavy machine guns, general-purpose machine guns, and squad automatic weapons. Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per round fired, a machine gun is designed to continue firing for as long as the trigger is held down. Nowadays, the term is restricted to relatively heavy crew-served weapons, able to provide continuous or frequent bursts of automatic fire for as long as ammunition feeding is replete. Machine guns are used against infantry, low-flying aircraft, small boats and lightly/unarmored land vehicles, and can provide suppressive fire (either directly or indirectly) or enforce area denial over a sector of land with grazing fire. They are commonly mounted on fast attack vehicles such as technicals to provide heavy mobile firepower, armored vehicles such as tanks for engaging targets too small to justify the use of the primary weaponry or too fast to effectively engage with it, and on aircraft as defensive armament or for strafing ground targets, though on fighter aircraft true machine guns have mostly been supplanted by large-caliber rotary guns. Some machine guns have in practice sustained fire almost continuously for hours; other automatic weapons overheat after less than a minute of use. Because they become very hot, the great majority of designs fire from an open bolt, to permit air cooling from the breech between bursts. They also usually have either a barrel cooling system, slow-heating heavyweight barrel, or removable barrels which allow a hot barrel to be replaced. Although subdivided into "light", "medium", "heavy" or "general-purpose", even the lightest machine guns tend to be substantially larger and heavier than standard infantry arms. Medium and heavy machine guns are either mounted on a tripod or on a vehi. Trevor Choat (Cover photo) (illustrator).
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1995
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 64 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are Czech Light Machine Gun, Beta C Magazine, Russian PPD 1940, Interview with Carlos Hathcock, and the Uzi Submachine Gun. The Uzi is a family of Israeli open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine guns and machine pistols first designed by Major Uziel "Uzi" Gal in the late 1940s, shortly after the establishment of the State of Israel. It is one of the first weapons to incorporate a telescoping bolt design, which allows the magazine to be housed in the pistol grip for a shorter weapon. The Uzi prototype was finished in 1950. It was first introduced to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) special forces in 1954, and the weapon was placed into general issue two years later. The IDF supplied Uzis to rear-echelon troops, officers, artillery troops and tank crews, as well as a frontline weapon by elite light infantry assault forces. The Uzi has been exported to over 90 countries. Over its service lifetime, it has been manufactured by Israel Military Industries, FN Herstal, and other manufacturers. From the 1960s through to the 1980s, more Uzi submachine guns were sold to more military, law enforcement and security markets than any other submachine gun ever made. Carlos Norman Hathcock II (May 20, 1942 February 22, 1999) was a United States Marine Corps (USMC) sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. Hathcock's record and the extraordinary details of the missions he undertook made him a legend in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was honored by having a rifle named after him: a variant of the M21 dubbed the Springfield Armory M25 White Feather, for the nickname "White Feather" given to Hathcock by the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). Before deploying to South Vietnam, Hathcock had won shooting championships, including matches at Camp Perry and the Wimbledon Cup. In 1966, Hathcock started his deployment in the Vietnam War as a military policeman and later became a sniper after Captain Edward James Land pushed the Marines into raising snipers in every platoon. Land later recruited Marines who had set their own records in sharpshooting; he quickly found Hathcock, who had won the Wimbledon Cup, the most prestigious prize for long-range shooting, at Camp Perry in 1965. One of Hathcock's most famous accomplishments was shooting an enemy sniper through the enemy's own rifle scope, hitting him in the eye and killing him. After returning to active duty, Hathcock helped establish the Marine Corps Scout Sniper School at the Marine base in Quantico, Virginia. Due to the extreme injuries he suffered in Vietnam, he was in nearly constant pain, but continued to dedicate himself to teaching snipers. The ZB-26 was a Czechoslovak light machine gun developed in the 1920s, which went on to enter service with several countries. It saw its major use during World War II, and spawned the related ZB vz. 27, vz. 30, and vz. 33. The ZB vz. 26 influenced many other light machine gun designs including the British Bren light machine gun and the Japanese Type 97 heavy tank machine gun. The ZB-26 is famous for its reliability, simple components, quick-change barrel and ease of manufacturing. This light machine gun in the Czechoslovak army was marked as the LK vz. 26 ("LK" means lehký kulomet, light machine gun; "vz." stands for vzor, Model in Czech). The Wehrmacht soon adopted the ZB-26 after the occupation of Czechoslovakia, renaming it the MG 26(t); it was used in the same role as the MG 34, as a light machine gun. In the opening phases of World War II, the ZB-26 in 7.92 mm Mauser caliber was used in large numbers by elements of the German Waffen-SS, who at first did not have full access to standard Wehrmacht supply channels. The Beta C-Mag is a 100-round capacity drum magazine manufact.
Published by Lane Publishing, Hot Springs, AR, 1993
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 60 pages, including covers. Illustrated covers. Illustrations. Tabular Data. Machine Gun News was published monthly to serve as a forum for Class III dealers and machine gun enthusiasts. Among the topics in this i…ssue are Highpowe Rifle Reloading by Rovert Hausman; Evaluation of the Tactical Response Shotgu by al Paulson, Bonnie & CLyde by Rick cartledge; Subsonic .22 Ammo by Mark White, The AK Rate Reducer by Ken Carter, and an Interview with Ron Cable by Bill Conville. Ronald B. Cagle earned his Master's Degree in Business from Stetson University. He served in the U.S. Army, leading teams of technicians in the electronics communications field in Germany. He was also a paratrooper in the 11th Airborne Division, participating in numerous tactical jumps. When he left the U.S. Army, he applied his expertise with Pratt & Whitney, where he led efforts in testing jet propulsion rocket motors. He then jpined the Philco-Ford Corporation and served at the newly-formed Manned Space Center in Houston as Telemetry Manager. He worked with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, participating in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo Programs. He left Philco-Ford to lead the effort for the conversion of the Mobile Launcher Platform and the Crawler Transporter from the Apollo to the Space Shuttle configuration. He was recruited to join Harris Corporation, where he successfully lead many global electronics communications programs, and retired in the 1990's. He was founder of the National Firearms Association. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909 May 23, 1934) were American outlaws who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, committing a series of criminal acts such as bank robberies, kidnappings, and murders between 1932 and 1934. The couple were known for their bank robberies and multiple murders, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934. They were ambushed by police and shot dead in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians. This article on the notroious pair highlights aspects suited for the readers of Machine Gun News and offers information and perspective not likely to be present in material written for other audiences. The author was an authority on the motorized bandits of the 1930s. The focus of this article were three clashes that the Barrow gang had with "Thompson wielding lawmen", all in 1933. There is a fascinating discussion not only of Clyde Barrow's driving proficiency but also of the variety of BARs, sawed off shotguns, and other weapons used during the gang's 'crime spree'. Because of the specialized nature of this publication and its relatively small, niche audience, this may be among the rarer of the 'modern' scholarship on Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.