Guns

The German Gewehr 43 rifle (subsequently renamed the Karabiner 43) represented the culmination of wartime attempts to provide a self-loading rifle for the Wehrmacht. The design was based on that of the...

The M1919 Browning is a .30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The M1919 saw service as a light...

The Vickers K GO (Gad Operated) was originally a Royal Air Force observers gun as it had a high rate of fire which made it suitable for shooting at high speed planes and getting as many bullets on target...

The M1 carbine (formally the United States Carbine, Caliber .30, M1) is a lightweight semi-automatic carbine that was a standard firearm for the US Military. during WW2, the Korean War and the Vietnam...

The M1 "Garand" was a semi-automatic service rifle designed in 1924, and adopted in 1936 in the United States by equipping all its infantry, with the exception of one man in each squad who used a bolt...

The Bren gun was a series of light machine guns (LMG) made by Britain in the 1930s and used in various roles until 1992. While best known for its role as the British and Commonwealth forces' primary infantry...

The Karabiner 98 kurz , often abbreviated Karabiner 98k, Kar98k or K98k and also sometimes incorrectly referred to as a K98 (a K98 is a Polish carbine and copy of the Kar98a), is a bolt-action rifle chambered...

The MG-34 is a German machine gun created, as the name implies, in 1934. It was used as the German primary machine gun during the 1930s and is considered the first General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG). In...

The German Maschinengewehr 42, or MG42, was one of the best machine-guns of the war, both in combat and in ease of production. It set the standard for machine-guns in the years that followed, and as such...

The MP 40 was a submachine gun chambered for the 9 19mm Parabellum cartridge and an open-bolt, blowback-operated automatic arms. It was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Axis powers...

The StG 44 (abbreviation of Sturmgewehr 44, "assault rifle 44") is a German assault rifle developed during WW2. It is also known by its early designations as the MP 43 and MP 44 (Maschinenpistole 43 and...

The PPSh-41 is a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgy Shpagin. A common Russian nickname for the weapon is "papasha", meaning "daddy", and it was sometimes called the "burp gun" because of its high...