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Before the development of the well-known Gewehr G43, there was the Gewehr G41(M) "gas-trap" design from Mauser.

Long before the SA80, the F2000 or the Tavor, the French FAMAS brought the compactness of a bullpup to a major world power’s military.

No, it’s not a product of Hollywood’s overactive imagination; there really was a full-auto broomhandle Mauser. Check out the details behind the M712 Schnellfeuer.

The Heckler & Koch MP5 is one of the most recognizable submachine guns that remains in service worldwide.

Imagine a firearm so powerful that it was protested as a violation of war conventions. In reality, it was a pump-action Winchester shotgun: the Model 1897 "Trench Gun."

In one of the bloodiest battles of World War I, the Webley Mk V proved itself in the hands of 2nd Lt. Donald Simpson Bell as he charged across the Somme battlefield.

America’s bolt-action infantry rifles came from two main camps, but both the M1903 Springfield and the M1917 Enfield were sturdy, stout options to fight the Kaiser’s forces.

In the workshop of mysterious genius Paris Theodore, the Smith & Wesson Model 39 was customized into the famous ASP combat pistol, supposedly used by clandestine agents.

John C. Garand’s combat masterpiece M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle was so effective in the Pacific theater, the Japanese attempted to make their own version.