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  1. Thanks for making content like this! My family lost two sons during the last weeks of this war. If there's one thing Americans and Finnish people can agree on, it's their shared feelings about communism.
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  2. Today is the "Day of Victory and Homeland Gratitude, Day of Croatian Veterans" so thank you Ian for featuring a Croatian firearm from that war
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  3. I am still amazed how you managed to stay positive and super nice to people like me coming to talk to you after such physical torment :D
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  4. Man, I love all your Estonian vids. I was born in Tallinn, but we left when I was a kid, so this stuff is a real treat.
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  5. Ian, you are legend. There is not a single video i don’t learn something - i even feel like i’m learning when i see your “action” videos. Thank you.
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  6. Despite being a German Historian focusing on Contemporary German History since 10 Years now, Ian is still someone i learn a lot of Stuff from. In this case i now got something new to research and look into in my free Time! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
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  7. It does not surprise me that it was made in Limoges. That region was a communist heavy resistance area and very unpopular with De Gaulle. Older locals tell me that they were far more likely to have been sent to the war in Algeria than those from republican areas. I cannot confirm if this is true or not but it was generally believed so. Many of the allied dropped small arms were never turned over to the republican government and they still turn up from time to time when older generations pass away and find that granny still had grandad’s Sten gun hidden it the attic. Civil war was never far away in those days.
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  8. Mauser was actually the first to design a Schnellfeuer. We at the Royal Armouries have a 1926-dated prototype and a patent was granted. But it was never put into production and chances are that the Chinese never even knew it existed. But a very interesting footnote.
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  9. The brushed nickel is looking sharp. This is the only firearm channel I still subscribe to, because it is mostly Ian geeking out, no other BS or fake machismo.
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  10.  @ForgottenWeapons  For now...
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  11. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headstamp/licensed-troubleshooter?ref=e0y2xl We are really close to hitting the stretch goal to add a section on the Guns of GoldenEye N64 to Licensed Troubleshooter!
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  12. Greenly: What if it was just one guy with six guns? Smecker: Why don't you let me do the thinking, huh, genius?
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  13. Another great review Ian. Was great to meet you outside the Highland park distillery on Orkney. All the very best. Steve.
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  14. So, this is really, really obscure. It doesn't show up anywhere I looked as a weapon used in the Israeli War of Independence. More might turn up, since the Israeli National Archives are slowly (well, actually quickly) scanning their entire collection and uploading it online. Some of the yet to be scanned documents are titled - "Procurement - Switzerland" and are dated 1949. I also found documents about trade between Israel and Switzerland as early as 1949, but they discuss textiles, paper and clockworks. There are other documents though, for example about arms procurement from Czechoslovakia, but that's a bit more public knowledge.
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  15. A propos FN: I was in Liège last weekend and went to the Curtius Arms Collection, saw a couple of the pieces you did videos about, amazing experience!
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  16. Side note. As a french guy watching avidly both for your channel, and for the History Underground's one, i have made a letter to the Ministère des Armées, asking for them to give you some sort of reward, for your relentless work at celebrating as well as the french weaponry history, than the french battles sites. Last week, they gave me a reply, saying that they will look after my request. Hope they'll give a favourable ending to that.
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  17. I thought it stopped at SA80 adoption but then it kept on going for into a whole second half on all varieties of SA80. I feel like I got 100% more book than I expected, so I am very happy with the extended content of this book. Well worth the wait.
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  18. Thank you! Just ordered with PayPal! Excellent :) Hope your hand holds up after all those signatures.. Guess you will have to do more right handed shooting video's for the next few months!
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  19. This channel is a black hole. I only wanted to know a thing or two about Luger (mostly where was the slide) and now I can't stop watching. Hopefully I'll get my first gun around this time next year.
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  20. Great video.. much appreciated.. has been 42 years and still a solid part of my memories
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  21. As a German i really appreciate you Guys also selling these to us Europeans. There are so many great Books, especially from the US that didn't ship to us which then leads to certain People somehow getting them here and offering them for sometimes 3-4x the Price they cost in the US, and sadly People here buy them anyway. Definitely gonna get a Copy! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
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  22. « In 1902 Ethiopia was armed with eight-tenths of Gras cartridges and two-thirds of 75. French weapons came from private factories (Saint Etienne, Le Creusot, Tulle or Châtellerault), official government suppliers and the arsenals of the Ministry of War. » (page 414) The trade of weapons in Djibouti from 1888 to 1914 by Agnès Picquart (1971) in «  revue d’outre mers » As « MAS » is usually for Manufacture d’Armes de Saint etienne and it is a recorded supplier of such guns to Ethiopia I think the assumption of Ian is right, even if this particular marking is unusual I translated from french directly, here is a link for the full text: https://www.persee.fr/doc/outre_0300-9513_1971_num_58_213_1560
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  23. Extra funny because an early gunpowder use is in fact mentioned in Snorri Sturlason's sagas albeit from about the 1300's. The recipe given is bogus and clearly obfuscated in the original source, but it is described as "making a noise so loud that only the bravest dare withstand it".
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  24. I just like to say you guys give me the confidence to run whatever gun I want during the three gun cuz at the end of the day I'm not sponsored and it doesn't matter anyways
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  25. I dont often watch Q&A's from Youtube Channels, or in general, because the questions can be a bit too complicated, or the answers can be too complicated and not well thought out, but now watching my 1st Forgotten Weapons Q&A, i was surprised how nicely both the questions and answers were laid out, especially for a person like me, who has no real knowledge of firearms or firearms legislation. Might have to go and watch some of the previous Q&As now.
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  26. Your partnership/cooperation with Varusteleka has been wonderful symbiosis. You're just made for each other. One of my favourite thoughts about these merino wool clothing is how it's not made mostly of plastics like most clothing (there's still some recycled polyester but you deal with what you gotta deal with). These days I'm a bit bothered how everything you touch is made of plastics, starting from the clothes. The camp cup or "kuksa". These promo pictures look really cool btw.
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  27. We used to use those metal shoulder hooks on the harnest to carry anti-tank mines and cable rolls etc. It was lovely to strap maybe 20 kilos of extra weigh on those! ;)
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  28. Varusteleka is great, i have ordered boots, a bayonet, and a backpack from them, nothing to complain about. They also have the best item descriptions i have ever seen, just browsing items there can be hilarious
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  29. Hey Ian, I just have to thank you for all of the knowledge and entertainment you've provided me over the years. It's really helped develop my interest in firearms and it's gotten me through some hard times in my life. You do a great service to this mortal coil.
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  30. Also remember that before Wickard v. Filburn in 1942, the NFA was only enforceable on machine guns that _actually crossed state lines_. Building machine guns in your shed out back didn't legally fall under NFA purview until after SCOTUS decided that literally every tangible object in existence affects interstate commerce.
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  31. Hi Ian, being an Australian and Polish, I just can't deny, that your choice of the headgear for this video is absolutely splendid.
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  32. Great to see Mike on your channel! Many years ago he and my wife and I and 10 others attended a carbine class together..in a corn field in Kansas with a torrential downpour of rain it was close to becoming a maritime event 🤣... good times were had that weekend!
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  33. Speaking of those stock/holster thing, my grandfather, who was born in the 1930s in mainland China and served in the ROC Marine, once told me that they used to call this kind of pistol "盒子炮" or "boxed cannon" in a literal translation. I always thought he was referring to the C96, but I guess fair amount of these warlord pistols as well. He also mentioned that this style of pistol is more prestigious because it is perceived to be more powerful.
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  34. My grandfather Robert Browning inherited a tool room example. Traded with his lawyer for legal services before I was born. It’s really cool to see these guns still trading owners and gives me hope I can own one in the future.
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  35. Ian, You're really starting to get the hang of this.
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  36. Thanks GH. Very Interesting. This excerpt was key for mine ... “ … Soldiers who used both Austen and Owen guns in the South-West Pacific were, it appears, in favour of the Owen. In Latchford‘s view the handiness of the Owen put it out in front. It still had one or two minor defects when first used in New Guinea-reports on operations ih the Aitape-Wewak Campaign mention defects arising from the design of the safety catch-but on the whole the Owen was the more reliable of the two guns in that after immersion in mud and slush it could still be relied on to fire. The Austen could not. The lighter 9-mm ammunition was far more popular with the troops than the .45-inch and the Owen earned a reputation for reliability due to simplicity of design, the top-mounted magazine which provided a reliable gravity feed and the bottom ejection port which removed fouling through the ‘hole in the floor’. In time it became the ‘forward area’ weapon, and in an authoritative assessment of its qualities conducted by the Ordnance Board of Britain in December 1943,in competition with five other guns, the Owen was rated first in four of the five tests and first in over-all order of merit. … “
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  37. Congrats on retaking the most crowdfunded academic publication of all time!
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  38. Lads that was absolutely fantastic! I was there just after the war ended, and that brought back a lot of memories. A great episode of Forgotten Weapons. Have a beer on me!
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  39. As a longtime fan and subscriber to this channel as well as a person who call this godforsaken island my home and heart, I really appreciate how you tackle this ill tasty so called snack with the same curiosity and non biased approach as you do with all those old and forgotten weapons. Cheers to you, or as we say here: Skál fyrir þér!
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  40. The thing about controlled feed is that if the case somehow jumps ahead of the extractor (such as on Mausers with worn feed lips), it becomes impossible to then lip the extractor over the rim when turning the bolt to lock. This can result in a similar double-feed situation if you haven't realized what's happened. I've had this happen on my 98k, and Bloke on the Range has also had it happen to his Manky Mauser.
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  41. "Why one earth would anyone need to own a machinegun?" - that oft used phrase? Even R. Reagan used it when he signed the Hughes amendment into law. When I heard Reagan make that statement I could not help but reflect, this from a man who starred in how many motion pictures that featured a machinegun? I have owned and used machineguns for WWII re-enacting, educational museum demonstrations and films for over forty years. When WWII re-enacting began in 1975, almost no one, outside of Hollywood, wanted blank ammo. I wish I had been paid by the hour for the untold amount of my life was spent adapting firearms to function using blanks and I am still at it. From the founder of the WWII Historical Re-enactment Society.
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  42. Hear Springfield is going to import these. It will be called the Hellyeah.
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  43. Hands down the best lower I've ever purchased. Would highly recommend to anyone on the fence you will not be disappointed
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  44. I appreciate the fact that you are wearing the older Thunderbolt Camouflage that has the darker yellow like color it's great because this was used during the united republic (mainly cold war era)
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  45. Neat gun. For anyone interested, this is Lot #1010 in the May 18, 2022 auction. Estimated at $20-30K, which seems really low for such a rare, registered gun in a popular cartridge.
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  46. I wish people in the UK, US and NATO countries fully understood how Estonia, despite its size, has fought side by side with us in the war on terror... even before it officially joined NATO - despite being around the same population as Rhode Island. So I think helping them feel safe now, with everything that's happening, is the least we can do.
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  47. Ian's not the world's most physical guy But when he locked the breach I thought Jesus would die From the 4 bore Oh yes, from the 4 bore No more from the 4 bore When he locked the breach For the second time squeezing the trigger I saw Gun Jesus cry From the 4 bore Oh yes, from the 4 bore No more of the 4 bore
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  48. There were a bunch of us there to meet Ian and he had us play a guessing game on what the whole package was. When he put the bayonet on we all had a look of general collective confusion. Super cool gun with a really interesting history.
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  49. As someone with 3 college degrees (and I'm sure someone on the internet will slag me for mentioning that), I just want to say that I think you are one of the finest teachers I've ever seen, and I've seen a LOT of teachers. I just wish all of them had been as good as you. I thought I'd add this, because with only 17 comments at this point, this is as close to the start of the line as I've ever gotten.
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  50. Ian, this kind of vision is exactly why I supported HoW&W the moment you announced it. It's mind-boggling what a difference 10 years makes - I grew up with a very different Internet through the late 90s and through the 00s, its current state is unrecognizable compared to back then. Which isn't a bad thing on the whole, but the amount of control held by the old media, old corporations, and old heads that are entirely out of touch with the world makes it a much scarier place than the frontier days ever were. I'm glad and grateful that people like yourself are stepping up like this. I hope we continue to see this kind of civil pushback.
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