Tag: john c. garand

Pedersen Model GY At RIA

Posted April 2, 2015 in AK-47 / AK-74 / Everything AK, AR-15, Guns & Gear, Other Gear & Gadgets, Rifles by Nathaniel F with No Comments

Rock Island Auction seems to always have something special, but this particular item is exceptional even by those standards. Forgotten Weapons has a video overview of an extremely rare Pedersen GY rifle. This rifle was a Pedersen design from the late 1930s that copied [Read More…]

Eight Reasons Selfloading Rifles Had To Wait For John Garand

Posted January 16, 2015 in AK-47 / AK-74 / Everything AK, Ammunition, AR-15, Guns & Gear, Other Gear & Gadgets, Rifles by Nathaniel F with 79 Comments

With the introduction of the successful metallic cartridge in the 1840s, an explosion of innovation directed towards rapid-firing infantry weapons rocked the world. The culmination of this would be the mass-produced self-loading rifle, realized with the adoption of [Read More…]