Very Interesting. Except for the position of the magazine it looks a lot like a Villar Perosa submachine gun.

To all you real Frenchmen, Francophiles, Francophones, collectors of French arms and militaria,
Une Glorieuse 14 Juillet ou Jour de la Bastille. 1789-2009. 220 ans.

Blackpowder has its charms, just remember to clean the firearm thoroughly. I enjoy it mostly for the "Time Travel"
effect. Most of my BP shooting these days is in historical reeanactments, firing blanks.

That is the best picture of a Stechkin I've ever seen-haven't actually seen one. How does it shoot? Only account I've read about shooting one was by Leroy Thompson in Combat Handguns magazine some time ago.

On another board I post on the topic of safe queens arises from time to time. Most of my milsurps are safe queens, I buy for the history, the shooting is fun but just holding a milsurp in my hands-and owning it-is fun enough. In some cases-my M95 Steyrs and my Lebel and M1907/15 ammunition is hard t...

I recall seeing a UK paper 3 years or so after handgun ownership was banned that said:
"It's Official-Crime Rate in UK Twice that of US"
A theme that occurs frequntly in history is government using a "terrorist" act to curtail freedoms.

Good to see it back to the old format. The orange is a little too much, I liked the older color scheme better.

"P" in the Cyrillic Aphabet is "R".

I saw a Stechkin in the pistol photograph. Very interesting.

IIRC Patton said one of the best weapons the Germans had was "our own jeep because of so many lousy drivers". General Walton Walker was killed in Korea in a near identical accident. I am skeptical of these "death bed confessions" that only surface years later, I recently read a b...