Guns from 1950 to 1959
Hope for lasting peace following World War 2 was dashed when the decade began with conflict on the Korean peninsula.
1950
The AAT52 was the standard general purpose machine gun fielded by French and colony forces beginning in the early 1950s. Thou...
1958
The ArmaLite / Colt AR-15 is one of the most favored automatic rifle systems in the world today. The type is considerably enj...
1959
The original M1 Garand became the world's first standard-issue self-loading rifle and served in the millions with American an...
1955
Introduced some ten years after World War 2, the Vz. 52/57 saw use in some numbers. As the vz. 52, the system was designed to...
1959
Czechoslovakia was "reborn" following World War 2 but fell under the Soviet sphere of influence through the post-war Warsaw P...
1958
The CETME Model 58 holds its origins in the StG 45(M) assault rifle prototype of World War 2. This automatic weapon was in th...
1955
The Colt Python is regarded by many gun purists and firearms experts as quite possibly the finest double-action revolver ever...
1954
The L1A1 was the standard British Army infantry assault rifle from the mid-1950's through to the late 1990's, ultimately bein...
1957
The L4A1 is nothing more than a modified World War 2-era Bren Gun, .303 Series chambered to fire the NATO-standard 7.62x51mm ...
1954
The FN FAL (Fusil Automatique Legere) is oft-regarded as the best of the FN automatic rifle designs. The FN FAL became the we...
1958
The FN MAG is the most successful of post-war (1945) machine gun designs. Over 150,000 units have been sold to various nation...
1956
The Franchi LF-57 proved a high-quality submachine gun design attempt that was only limited by the glut of excellent offering...
1959
At the end of World War 2, German engineers were working on perfecting a new breed of service rifle known as the "assault rif...
1950
The UZI 9 mm was created soon after Israel became a nation state in 1948. The UZI used a revolutionary design in which the pi...
1959
The AKM was designed in the 1950s as a modernized successor to the fabled AK-47 assault rifle series of the late 1940s. The o...
1959
The AKMS is a major variant of the AKM assault rifle line. The AKM itself is nothing more than the 1940's era AK-47 assault r...
1950
The AKS was derived from the base AK47 assault rifle though produced with a folding steel butt instead of the fixed wood stoc...
1950
L2 marked the British military version of the American M26 fragmentation hand grenade that appeared in the early 1950s. The M...
1950
When America entered World War 1 in 1917, it lacked much in the way of modern war weapons. Army forces were delivered various...
1952
In 1952, the American government replaced the standard Army and Marine Corps 81mm service mortar of World War 2/Korean War - ...
1957
The M60 served as the primary American general purpose machine gun for a good part of the 20th Century, being fielded in the ...
1952
The M61 was a standardized fragmentation hand grenade utilized primarily by the United States and Canadian armed forces durin...
1952
The SFMG Mark 4 was a general purpose machine in every sense of the word, generating only modest interest and light sales ove...
1951
The Makarov PM ("Pistolet Makarova") was designed and developed to replace the Soviet World War 2-era Tokarev TT-33 series se...
1953
The Mitraillette Vigneron was born in post-World War 2 Belgium Army requirement for an indigenous and modern submachine gun. ...
1959
China produces a near-exact copy of the Soviet-Russian Makarov semi-automatic sidearm as the Type 59. The original Makarov wa...
1950
One of the most famous and popular of the Remington shotgun lines became the Remington M870 (Model 870) series. The type over...
1951
The Remington Model 870 "Wingmaster" is a variant of the famous andbest-selling Remington M870 series pump-action slide shotg...
1955
The .44 Magnum or, more formally, the Smith & Wesson Model 29 became the stuff of legend in the Dirty Harry series of movies ...
1959
The M14, for all intents and purposes, was basically a then-modernized version of the highly successful standard American Arm...
1956
To make the Soviet AK-47 readily available and at a lower procurement cost, the Chinese took to locally manufacturing the ass...
1956
The Type 56 Carbine (not to be confused with the Type 56 Assault Rifle) was nothing more than a local Chinese copy of the Sov...
1958
During the Cold War that followed World War 2, Korea became a divided nation after the Japanese influence was removed. The No...
1951
The Maschinengewehr 51 (MG51) General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) was developed in Switzerland in the years immediately follow...
1959
The Uk vz. 59 was a derivative of the vz. 52/57 machine gun (detailed elsewhere on this site). A Czech design through and thr...
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