Forgotten Weapons is a

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and channel appearing on

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, Utreon and

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, created and presented by Ian McCollum, that covers the history of

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, obscure, and historically important

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Forgotten Weapons frequently features unusual, rare, odd, experimental, or

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firearms, such as the

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versions of the

Empire of Japan The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent fo ...

Arisaka The Arisaka rifle ( ja, 有坂銃, Arisaka-jū) is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, which were produced and used since approximately 1897, when it replaced the Murata rifle (, ) family, until the end of World War II in ...

Type 99 rifle The was a bolt-action rifle of the Arisaka design used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. History During the Second Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, the Japanese soon found that the 7.7mm cartridge being fired by their Type 92 ...

featuring a folding stock attached to a cabinet hinge. McCollum covers the history of such firearms in detail, and often explains how important certain firearms were to the development of weapon technologies and the

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. He also usually explains the functioning and parts of the gun by dissassembling it. McCollum often borrows the firearms from auction houses, most commonly the Rock Island Auction and Morphy Auctions. He has also written books and articles for ''

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'' on the topic of firearms.

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McCollum avoids political topics in favor of exclusively covering technical topics and history. He has amassed over 2 million subscribers on YouTube. Despite this, McCollum encountered some difficulties with YouTube deleting his videos, which is why he began uploading his videos to Full30 and Floatplane. In 2014, McCollum improved the quality of his videos by means of an IndieGogo campaign, the proceeds of which were used to purchase high-quality camera equipment. In 2018, McCollum co-founded Headstamp Publishing with colleagues N.R. Jenzen-Jones (of

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) and James Rupley, through which he wrote and published his book '' Chassepot to FAMAS.'' The book was

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on Kickstarter, and raised $800,256. Headstamp's second book, ''Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901–2020'', authored by

Jonathan Ferguson Jonathan Steven Ferguson (born January 3, 1979) is a British firearm historian and author who is currently the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England. He is also a technical specialist with Armament Rese ...

, raised $579,585 on Kickstarter. McCollum's second book, ''Pistols of the Warlords'', raised $1,541,381 on Kickstarter.

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