Comments by "Laird Cummings" (@lairdcummings9092) on "M44 Submachine Gun: Finland Copies the Soviet PPS-43" video.

  1. Engineering excellence: stripped down to the barest essentials, with nothing left to take away. Simplicity exemplified.
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  2. Sam Cummings. Distant (not super distant) cousin of mine. Not exactly my favorite person.
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  3.  @ntrf-xyz  in general, simplicity gets you the desired ease of assembly, maintenance, and operation. The more simple, the less opportunity for idiots to 'happen.'
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  4.  @hedgeearthridge6807  the point of excellence isn't to design something broken; it's to design something that has no excess.
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  5.  @emersonschwarz1364  the Carcano rifles were sold on the US surplus market. The Machine Guns were shopped around to various governments and agencies in pretty much every corner of the world.
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  6.  @RonOhio  and renting one is expensive. Yep.
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  7.  @emersonschwarz1364  during Sam's tenure, Interarms had warehouses STUFFED with odds and ends. They may well have sat in crates.
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