Q&A 50: Disagreeing With the Premise of the Question

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00:56 - What is the status of the Chinese Warlord Pistols book?
03:01 - Are open-bolt guns mechanically less accurate?
04:39 - Was Johnson influenced by the RSC?
06:02 - Arms development in totalitarian countries
09:03 - What is #36720?
10:27 - Design features to improve reliability in harsh environments?
13:21 - What if the M1 Carbine was more reliable?
15:06 - More distillery tours?
Tour of the Kyrö Distillery:    • Apocrypha: Tour of the Kyrö Distillery  
17:07 - My favorite pre-1950 revolver
Webley WG video:    • Classic Imperial British Revolvers: t...  
17:46 - Absinthe cocktails besides the Sazerac?
18:30 - Constant Recoil in open-bolt SMGs?
20:04 - Notch sights vs aperture sights
22:37 - Gun development dead ends
25:42 - Iron sight preferences
27:06 - Did anyone succeed in replacing 3 different guns with just one?
29:32 - Naval willingness to experiment more than Armies
32:01 - Prototype design that was this close to being really good?
35:07 - How to do an LMG competition?
38:27 - Revolving rifles and gas seal designs
41:09 - Amateur radio
41:58 - Why no .32ACP submachine guns?
vz61 Skorpion video:    • Czech vz61 Skorpion: History and Mech...  
43:48 - Books on Pederson and/or the Pedersen rifle?
44:56 - Adding detailed photography to my video work
46:47 - Did 7.62mm NATO set back Western small arms?
49:05 - Books on Israeli small arms?
David Gaboury's book on the Uzi:    • Book Review: The Uzi Submachine Gun E...  
51:02 - What if the French had not rushed the 8mm Lebel rifle and cartridge?
56:37 - Reproduction PTRD in .50 BMG?
PTRD video:    • PTRD 41: The Simple Soviet Antitank R...  
59:56 - Most interesting delayed blowback mechanisms
Headspace-operated rifle:    • Headspace-Operated Prototype Rifle - ...  


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