Videos tagged with Saint-Etienne

This review details the civilian Manufrance Mle 1892 revolver, highlighting its revolutionary features like a swing-out cylinder and smokeless powder, distinguishing it from earlier black powder models. Key visual cues differentiate civilian from military versions, including a specific hammer screw and dovetailed front sight. Production numbers indicate around 88,000 civilian models were made, with Manufrance producing about 32,000.

This expert-level overview of the Bernardon-Martin pistol, France's first commercial semi-automatic, details its 1907 and 1909 variants. The video highlights its unique screw-based construction, blowback operation, and the evolution from fixed to detachable magazines. It also touches upon its historical context, competition from Browning pistols, and the rarity of surviving examples.

This video is a book review of "Italian Partisan Weapons in WWII" by Gianluigi Usai, translated by Ralph Riccio and published by Schiffer. The book aims to fill a gap in historical accounts of the Italian Resistance by detailing the arms used by partisans. The reviewer highlights the book's initial section which provides historical context, discusses arms acquisition, and analyzes partisan perspectives on their weaponry. It also notes the often informal and politically motivated nature of the partisan groups, leading to a varied and sometimes obscure collection of firearms. The latter part of the book profiles individual weapons, accompanied by photographs of partisans with their arms. The reviewer finds the contextual analysis particularly interesting and believes the book is worth the price, despite some minor factual errors in the weapon profiles.

This expert-level review of the Brun-Latrige Model 1900 by Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons details its unique double-action-only mechanism, internal magazine, and folding trigger safety. The 8mm variant, manufactured by Manufrance, is compared to the more common 5mm version, highlighting its surprisingly good ergonomics for a pocket pistol of its era. The review emphasizes the firearm's design limitations, primarily due to its weak ammunition, despite its otherwise decent engineering for civilian self-defense.