Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "WW2 Service Pistols - Allied & Axis Sidearms" video.

  1. I have family associations with quite a few of these handguns. My grandfather carried a Mauser C96 in the Continuation War. A machine gunner in the Winter War, he was shot through the shoulder and being deemed unfit for further combat duty, he was made company clerk and issued a C96. He said it was accurate enough with the shoulder stock and his aching shoulder could stand the recoil. He once shot an elk (moose for the Americans) with it. My godfather was a fighter pilot who carried the Browning Hi-Power as his service weapon. Interestingly, I was supposed to be issued with the Hi-Power DA when I deployed to Kosovo, but because of problems with the type, I was given the Walther P1 instead. My British commander called it a toy gun till I put him to shame at the shooting range. My uncles, Continuation War vets too, all had booty Tokarevs and Nagants, which "disappeared" when gun laws were tightened.
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  2.  @blank557  True dat. My Finnish grandfather brought a Colt revolver back from the States, where he worked as a miner till he could buy out his siblings and take over the family farm. He always called it his "prauninki". Many a pig was killed with the gun.
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  3. Where did Belgium disappear in 1914? I studied history at the University of Leuven (the library of which was famously torched by the Germans), but we were never told of this disappearance. Likewise, did a great many European countries disappear and miraculously reappear during and after WW2? At least a part of Belgium -- the Ypres salient -- remained unoccupied in WW1, where the small but spunky Belgian army put up a spirited defence together with the other Allies.
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  4.  @datadavis  I bet, but Belgium didn't do a disappearing act. It's as preposterous a thought as Norway disappearing in WW2.
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  5.  @stevenmoens5427  We're talking about countries disappearing, not FN's commercial concerns.
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  6.  @michaelkovacic2608  You're better off with a P38 than a P1. I hear the P1 suffers from cracked frames.
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  7.  @farhanatashiga3721  Thanks for stating the obvious. After all, it eludes many. But I fail to see tongue-in-cheek material in countries disappearing.
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