August, 2025
M1917 Enfield
United States of America
First World War
Made by Winchester in 1918
.30-06
Chinese Contract Kar98k
The end of a decades-long partnership between German arms manufacturers and China was a small lot of Kar98k Mauser rifles sent to Chiang Kai-Shek’s armies in the late 1930s.
Beretta M1934
The standard service pistol of Mussolini’s armies during the Second World War was a simple blowback automatic, and would serve on for decades in Italian service as well as helping to build the global brand of Beretta.
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