#Selfloaders
Early Selfloader Mania: Italy's First Semiauto Battle Rifle, the Armaguerra Model 1939, with Forgotten Weapons
By this point, it’s impossible to hide my affinity for early selfloading rifles, and today we have another great video from Forgotten Weapons on an early Italian model that made it all the way to adoption. Though the program was cancelled before it could be produced, the Armaguerra Model 1939 rifle is still an important piece of Italian firearms history. You can learn more about it in Ian’s video embedded below:
BSA Prototype .45 ACP Pistol at James D. Julia
One of the neat things about taking the plunge into the archives, documents, videos, and even blog posts concerning firearms history, is that it really shatters the perception of a “complete” picture of firearms history created by tabletop books that attempt to catalog “every” type of firearm. A great example of what I mean is the BSA prototype pistol in .45 ACP, up for auction at James D. Julia. Forgotten Weapons has, again, provided coverage of the auction, including this great video on the handgun.