Forgotten Weapons is a
website
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and channel appearing on
YouTube
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, Utreon and
Full30
Full30 is an American online video-sharing platform mainly dedicated to firearms and shooting sports-related content. The service was established in 2014 by Tim Harmsen and Mark Hammonds as a result of YouTube
YouTube is a global onlin ...
, created and presented by Ian McCollum, that covers the history of
antique
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, obscure, and historically important
firearms.
Videos
Forgotten Weapons frequently features unusual,
rare, odd, experimental,
or
one-off firearms, such as the
paratroop
A paratrooper is a military parachutist—someone trained to parachute into a military operation, and usually functioning as part of an airborne force. Military parachutists (troops) and parachutes were first used on a large scale during Wor ...
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 for ...
's
Arisaka 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 9 ...
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
history of warfare.
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 ''
Popular Mechanics
''Popular Mechanics'' (sometimes PM or PopMech) is a magazine of popular science and technology, featuring automotive, home, outdoor, electronics, science, do-it-yourself, and technology topics. Military topics, aviation and transportation o ...
'' on the topic of firearms.
Platforms
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
Armament Research Services) and James Rupley, through which he wrote and published his book ''
Chassepot to FAMAS.'' The book was
crowdfunded
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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 Res ...
, raised $579,585 on Kickstarter. McCollum's second book, ''Pistols of the Warlords'', raised $1,541,381 on Kickstarter.
See also
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List of YouTube personalities
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References
External links
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* {{youTube, user=ForgottenWeapons
YouTube channels
2011 web series debuts
Gun writers