A cellphone disguise joins Forgotten Weapons' museum-piece week

Ian McCollum's ten uploads also trace a Lewis gun detour and the experimental ancestry of the M14.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Cellphone gun with four hidden barrels

Four hidden barrels make an unlikely companion to a phone keypad. "Cellphone gun with four hidden barrels" drew the largest audience among Forgotten Weapons' new uploads, reaching roughly 669,000 views. Viewers supplied the inevitable jokes about pocket dialing and phones that keep going off; one also recalled encountering the device in magazines and wondering whether it was fictional.

Ian McCollum's week had plenty beyond the disguised curiosity. "US Navy MkVI Lewis Gun in .30-06 for the Marines" examines an example made available by the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City. Its historical detour is the point: Marines trained with Lewis guns and took them to Europe, only to have the Army replace them with Chauchats before combat. A separate upload gives that substitution its own billing.

The prototype shelf was busy too. "M1E4: Origins of the M14 Gas Expansion/Cutoff System" follows an experimental Garand modification intended to simplify manufacturing. The initial design failed testing, but its gas-system lineage continued through later development into the M14. That is a particularly Forgotten Weapons kind of story: the unsuccessful specimen matters because of what came after it.

Across the channel, daily viewing is substantially above its usual level, and subscribers increased over the week. Kentucky Ballistics and Yarnhub are also drawing above-usual daily audiences, friendly company for a busy stretch.

The strongest momentum now belongs to "Precursor to the High Power: FN's 1923 Prototype Model Stocked Pistol," followed by a companion explaining the HiPower magazine's capacity. McCollum traces the pistol's development from a French Army request through John Browning's work and Dieudonné Saive's revisions at FN: another route from an obscure prototype to a familiar name.

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The videos drawing views on Forgotten Weapons right now

Delta Force pushed a civilian rifle into the M110 and then wanted a c…437,313 views · 2026-10-11 Why the M1 Garand used grease instead of oil414,292 views · 2026-10-12 US Navy MkVI Lewis Gun in .30-06 for the Marines359,647 views · 2026-10-14 Marines trained on Lewis guns but got Chauchats before combat231,729 views · 2026-10-14 M1E4: Origins of the M14 Gas Expansion/Cutoff System217,719 views · 2026-10-12 Precursor to the High Power: FN's 1923 Prototype Model Stocked Pistol127,359 views Why the HiPower magazine holds 13 rounds63,683 views

The numbers

Here is how the week's uploads and the wider channel audience added up.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Sellsword Arts

16,540,601

Yarnhub

8,790,439

Forgotten Weapons

8,112,727

Kentucky Ballistics

7,033,314

Colion Noir

6,844,053

Kings and Generals

4,252,770

Garand Thumb

3,053,280

The Armchair Historian

600,332

Iraqveteran8888

597,134

subscribers

3,240,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,931,117,314

views per day

1,592,474

typical day: 943,106

first-day views of each video posted this week

Cellphone gun with four hidden barrels

126,567

Delta Force pushed a civilian rifle int…

118,685

Why the M1 Garand used grease instead o…

177,468

US Navy MkVI Lewis Gun in .30-06 for th…

259,052

Marines trained on Lewis guns but got C…

147,025

M1E4: Origins of the M14 Gas Expansion/…

148,323

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Kentucky Ballistics

5,990,000

Garand Thumb

4,630,000

Kings and Generals

4,210,000

Colion Noir

3,400,000

Yarnhub

3,360,000

Forgotten Weapons

3,240,000

Iraqveteran8888

2,730,000

Sellsword Arts

2,650,000

The Armchair Historian

2,540,000

As of October 17, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.