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Secret Guns: Fully Automatic .22, Hip Mounted Pistol, Suppressed M1 Carbine

Posted May 3, 2017 in Defense, NFA / Suppressors / Class III, Other Gear & Gadgets, Pistols, Rifles, TFBTV by Miles with 7 Comments

Recently we’ve been looking at a number of high-profile developments that came out of Special Operations Executive. Namely the infamous Welrod and Welwyn suppressed devices, and the Norm and Welgun experimental submachine guns. In this video, we take a look at some of the much lesser-known [Read More…]

Top Secret WWII Machine Guns: The Norm and Welgun

Posted April 26, 2017 in Defense, NFA / Suppressors / Class III, Other Gear & Gadgets, TFBTV by Miles with 12 Comments

Eric Norman was one of the small arms designers at Special Operations Executive Station IX during the Second World War. The Norm Gun and Welgun were two of his designs that although never reached serial production, are interesting in their own right day, if anything due to their simplicity of [Read More…]