“Tag: Bruce N. Canfield”

I have seen references to .45-cal. Reising submachine guns that were used by the Marine Corps in World War II. All of the photos I’ve encountered depict full-length wooden stocks. However, I just encountered a photo of a Reising with a folding stock. Was this an experimental version or was it actually issued as well?

The Thompson, while excellent, was expensive and time-consuming to make. So, faced with a pressing need for more submachine guns, the U.S. Army adopted the M3 “Grease Gun”—but before that, there was the little-known M2.

A century ago, as the United States prepared to enter the Great War, John Moses Browning was ready with a water-cooled, belt-fed machine gun. Adopted as the U.S. Model of 1917, it would serve the “Doughboys” during the closing days of action in France—and even soldier on through the Korean War.

There was considerable Congressional scrutiny when it came to the adoption of the Model of 1917 Browning machine gun.

A reader asks about a rifle he saw in a TIME Magazine special edition for the 100th anniversary of World War I.

A reader inquires about a problem that occurs when firing a clip of blank cartridges in his M1 rifle.

Even though the last cavalry carbine of the U.S. Army was the M1899 Krag-Jorgensen, the U.S. Cavalry didn’t give up on fielding its own gun until the early 1920s.

A reader inquires as to what it means when a firearm is fired from an open bolt.

When the Doughboys went to France, starting in 1917, they took with them arguably the finest bolt-action military rifle ever made—the ’03 Springfield.