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Bren Light Machine Guns: A British import/export (VIDEOS)

One of the iconic light machine gun designs of the past century has to be the British Bren gun with their distinctive top-mounted magazine and WWII starring role. Yet ironically, if you look into the history of these guns, they may owe more to a town in central Europe named Brno and Toronto Canada than they do to England.

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The Whitworth Rifle: Fit for a queens and Confederates (VIDEO)

We found a rifle that fires a 500-grain bullet capable of one-mile shots, and uses polygonal rifling, yet only weighs 9-pounds. Where do you sign up, right? Well, go back to 1860 and ask for Mr. Whitworth.

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The L85 British Bullpup: The last Enfield

It's easy to forget that for over 150 years the British gunmaker Enfield essentially armed the world. The Royal factory kept London from having to redo their street signs in German, not once but twice, but in then in 1985, everything went pear-shaped.

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The Northover Projector: Spud Guns Gone Wild

Imagine that the Nazis have landed and you and your buddies get together to fight them off. The Nazis have tanks and artillery and legions of storm troopers. You have a hopped up spud gun that fired a Molotov cocktails. So was the case with the Northover Projector.

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Guns of the (Confederate) Grunt: 1863

The Confederate States of America only existed for less than half a decade, but the arms of the men who served in her defense were some of the most interesting carried by any soldiers on this continent.

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Guns of the Grunts: 1763

With drone strikes and snipers taking out targets past a mile, it may be hard to imagine that 250-years ago a New World minded armed force protected a country in a very different place.

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