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The inside of this funky weapon looks more Rube Goldberg than machine gun (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

The French took the badly designed M1905 Puteaux machine gun and fixed it to make the horribly designed St. Etienne M1907.

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70 year old saboteur cache looks like it was buried yesterday (17 PHOTOS)

by Chris Eger

Taken at face value, this cache unearthed in Latvia has some interesting period items ranging from Soviet grenades to German tools and a French revolver.

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FAMAS bullpup assault rifles: le ‘Bugle’ (VIDEO)

by Chris Eger

In warfare, France has always kinda gone their own way—not necessarily the wrong way, but definitely a way all their own. General “Stormin” Norman Schwarzkopf once said, "Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion." Well, oddly enough, the current French service rife was seen as something of an accordion—or at least a bugle.

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