Q&A October 2025: Weird Pistols & Future Plans

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Personal questions

03:07 – How is Ian doing?
04:38 – Family firearms background
05:47 – Favorite Finnish firearm
08:22 – Am I still learning French? How about Finnish?
09:58 – Plans for 2026 for Forgotten Weapons and Headstamp Publishing
12:14 – Is my wife involved in my work?
13:49 – Access to collections as a published author?

Gun questions

0:15:30 – Guns mounted to hands/arms
0:18:12 – Why no NATO standard assault rifle?
0:24:20 – Diversity of grenade launchers
0:27:27 – MTL-30 and XM26 grenade launchers
0:32:52 – Gyrojet vs Dardick: Which is less worse?
0:34:29 – Is .30 carbine a pistol or intermediate cartridge?
0:38:16 – Elbonia and the 6.8x51mm M7 rifle
0:41:48 – Squad automatic weapons – caliber and feed system?
0:44:17 – Portugal replacing G3 with SCAR
0:46:56 – What if US didn’t adopt the M16 / 5.56mm?
0:48:28 – Good books to start a gun library
0:51:05 – Good books to start a cartridge reference library
0:52:09 – The term “spring tension”
0:53:55 – FRTs and the market for 9mm PCCs
0:57:19 – Will Metal Storm ever be used?
0:59:20 – Alternative pistol locking systems
1:00:34 – S&W No.3 Schofield and the .45 Colt cartridge
1:03:24 – First time match DQ
1:04:40 – Most durable transferrable machine gun?
1:07:46 – Will Russia ever replace 7.62x54R?
1:10:16 – Dedicated anti-drone rifle?
1:12:31 – Value of full auto in submachine guns?
1:14:01 – Australian replacement of the High Power MkIII
1:18:28 – Cleaning and restoration of collectible guns
1:20:20 – Elbonian version of the M14TP sniper
1:23:21 – is the Vickers-Berthier LMG so controllable?
1:25:50 – Lighting Round: Will I do a video on…