Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. it's rare for people to be talented both as inventors/engineers and as business people. the inventors tend to take any arrangement that lets them focus their efforts entirely on the parts of the business that they enjoy, and they end up getting taken advantage of by whoever they found to take the finances off their hands/invest capital. particularly in the eyes of the inventors, who only care about the technical stuff, they are the ones who did essentially all of the work because they made the product, but they get very little of the profit because they only cared about the work and the product when they made the original agreements, whereas the businesspeople and investors they partnered with had their eyes on the money from the start, and they basically profit off the fact that they barely even care about the product. I think what inventors might need when setting up businesses like this is their own personal starting capital to hire a lawyer to negotiate a good position for them in the company from the start. which is already a horrible amount of bureaucracy for your average inventor to deal with.
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  2. when german storm troopers used stocked pistols for trench assaults, the alternatives were either stockless pistols, or bolt action rifles, were they not?
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  3. tthe ideal option for deniability is generally to use weapons made by your enemy. like how the soviets used german pistols to execute all those poles in katyn forest (though at the time, the germans weren't yet their enemies).
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  4. "absolutely atomic", as ian has said before
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  5. the question is whether it was empty before and after filming
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  6. I doubt they were made with alcohol. molotov cocktails are generally made with gasoline because it is (and even more so was) cheaper. I think it also burns a little hotter and might ignite better.
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  7. would be cool, but very unsafe area. the pakistani taliban have recently been increasing their attacks a lot, and I'm pretty sure that place is totally in their (pashtun) territory. I saw a VICE video like 10 years ago from there, but I suspect that VICE just pays huge bribes, that they basically prearrange ransom payments to get their people back out.
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  8. what I find quite striking is how with old plastic objects, once you get past some threshold age, the plastic on the older ones tends to be in far better condition because some of the formerly common old plastic types (mostly first half of the 20th century I think) were much more durable and don't seem to decompose at all, whereas now almost all of the plastic used even for things not technically meant to be disposable only lasts 5-20 years before it crumbles.
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  9. there's actually some specific name for the perception of the position of one's body that those pedants who say that humans have way more than 5 senses came up with. and I'm pretty sure that it's extra accurate for the hands.
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  10. Enfield Enfield Enfield Enfield Enfield Enfield
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  11. I was expecting an actual antique :(
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  12. that's beaurocrat for "what is this shit?"
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  13. maybe somebody found ammunition and commissioned them to make a gun for it? xD
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  14. free speech + thin blue line? that makes no sense! xD
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  15.  @WayStedYou  fentanyl, the opium war uno reverse card
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  16. no raid shadow legends sponsorship?
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  17. I think it's quite likely that many gunsmiths were using water power for some operations (from a wheel in a creek or river) for a couple hundred years before steam engines. so there were SOME power tools, probably including saws, primitive lathes, and mills. it's already massively helpful to just be able to make something spin with some force to ahape round parts as if you were wood turning, as opposed to trying to make something round without rotating it.
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  18. yes
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  19. not a gun guy, but it seems to me that the hangfires have to be a problem of chemical degradation of the primer, which ought to make th condition of the ammunition less than "excellent".
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  20. I like how they made the stock pretty. they even went as far as making it less sturdy. I believe this was alao the time when the british troops still wore the red uniforms, right? it seems like the decoration on military weapons was later dropped along with the form over function principle for uniforms.
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  21. not really, it seems like a mechanism that would wear badly and stop working relatively quickly because it's rubbing a long distance under substantial pressure over the same surfaces that are supposed to lock just barely. seems like the sort of thing that should have a tension adjustment screw.
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  22. MP41 uses a stamped receiver, a simpler bolt, and probably other simpler parts, so I think it was cheaper. ian's video on it states that it was mostly made for export to romania, to be used alongside the orita.
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  23. I imagine that if anyone ever used one of these, the selection system for which guy got the honour was a contest to compare the distance that they could throw a heavy object approximating this weapon in a fully loaded state. I imagine the results of most contestants would have been remarkably unimpressive (if you told them what they were simulating).
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  24.  @voltekthecyborg7898  thanks, I appreciate the actually informed reply :)
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  25.  @stefanschleps8758  I hear the recipes are rather bad. reminds me though of a website I found 15 years ago when I was playing with explosives... that would definitely not be on the clearweb today! xD they had recipes for like 20 different high explosives, and instructions for making your own landmines.
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  26. I don't think making it fit glock mags was of much practical concern.
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  27. 6:25 that levered firing pin also strikes the cartridge at around twice the speed (depending on where the pivot point is) that it would if it was fixed in the bolt. maybe it made a difference to fire whatever ammunition they were using more reliably, or to combine reliable firing with a relatively controllable recoil?
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  28. those people are probably just relatively unaware of and not interested in historical guns. you don't have to be trying to copy an old ammo type to nearly reproduce it, you can just start from some other cartridge and make this smaller and that bigger, and you're pretty likely to make something that happens to resemble a different ammo type that once existed. and really if you look at the rounds in the video, the 30 super carry looks exactly the same as the .32 ACP and less like the 7.65 french long.
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  29. I bet the factory that made the original wood furniture didn't even have abrasives fine enough to produce that finish.
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  30. 4:52 the ethiopians hated rear sights and removed them? uuuuuhm what? 🤯
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  31. yeah I have heard of prices like that, and as a violin maker with an interest in guitar making (both of which use expensive woods, especially guitars), it seems to me that gun people are getting ripped off BIG TIME with wood prices. nicely coloured walnut is one of the most expensive temperate climate woods, but it is NOT one of the most expensive woods, and even the most expensive woods (maybe nonsense crazy stuff like pink ivory, australian buloke, mauritius ebony, exceptionally large trunks of african blackwood, snakewood) has no reason to cost $5000 for a rifle stock blank. a reasonable price for a straight-grown flawless dark rifle stock of walnut should be in the $50-200 range. even that are specialty wood prices for individual sale, not how a factory would buy wood. curly grain is not that rare and not universally more desirable, it should not cost more than a 100-200% premium. truly exceptional pieces that combine straight or clean curly growth for structural strength in the relevant parts with burl figure or such at the base of the stock might in principle be reasonable to sell for $1000, but really only when those are also seasoned for 10 years to make them ready to use despite their inherently higher tendency to warp and crack. $5000 makes no sense, walnut is just nowhere near rare enough for that due to its extremely widespread commercial cultivation (as opposed to many more expensive tropical hardwoods that have no use other than timber and are a finite resource coming only from primary forests). walnut is a popular wood for many applications due to its colours, and perhaps the best choice for guns due to its favourable combination of extremely low shrinkage/warpage, moderate density, and high toughness, but there is a really strong supply of it that's certainly keeping prices much lower than that outside of gun circles. walnut is somewhat common on guitars, and I know that it's a low to mid price wood on those.
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  32. 😍 I love the look of that gun. it's like a super classy combination of an AK or SVD with a mauser or arisaka. I can't think of a better looking service rifle.
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  33. its collectibility is exceptionally obvious. it was produced in extremely small numbers, but has a very famous brand name because the SMG was very popular, and it also has the peculiar blish lock in common with the SMG, increasing the benefit of the association. it also is a hilariously stupid and unsafe failure of a gun, which gives it value as a curiosity. ans it's in a category of high value collectibility where people don't want to shoot the guns anyways to preserve value, so it's irrelevant that the safety level in shooting this gun would be very dubious.
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  34.  @genericpersonx333  sure, I suppose prices can skew in favour of ethanol instead of gasoline in certain countries during wartime. the finns may have been able to make ethanol from wood chips more easily than they could have sourced gasoline.
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  35. other than the mechanical problems, this actually looks quite well-made to me. if this is not a good one, then ian needs to finally show some of those alleged "well-made khyber pass guns"!
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  36. the SVD we have at home:
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  37.  @nilsniemeier5345  that would have to be a VERY thick coat to make a real difference to the stock length/pull length.I think it's more likely that the average man in russia in the 1880s was shorter due to malnutrition, like how north koreans are short today. the russian empire was poor, extremely unequal and lacking in industrialization
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  38. the effort that was put into imitating the look of proper guns is also a good indicator of their importance as status symbols. I don't think that's normal for improvised gun production in most other places at most other times. you could with a lot less effort make simplified guns that just have a round tube for a barrel with no sights and no attempt to look like any proper gun, but if you carried a gun like that, you would look to anybody like some farm boy who bought the cheapest amateurishly produced gun around, whereas a wauser would make you look a lot more like a soldier, and it would go much better with a uniform.
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  39. as a german, I'd say denmark is a northern wasteland. with many flags.
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  40. what about the betamax?
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  41. it looks like it would have been more useful though to have he laser pulse faster - would that have been more problematic to make or use? Ian says that the thing works best at close range with moving targets, but that's where I see the most need to have a faster pulse.
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  42. I think the best way to signify the danger of using a recoilless rifle would be to stamp a pictogram on it that shows angles behind and in front of it marked "danger" and angles to the side marked "safe", with the "danger" angle behind it ending in a radius with the written minimum safe distance on it, and it says "stand clear of back blast" and "do not fire inside buildings" somewhere. though of course it's a weapon that should really only be used by soldiers who were taught its use in training, given how dangerous it is to their comrades if used wrong.
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  43. just guessing, but I would think that this is much less of an issue with a shouldered gun than with a pistol
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  44. in germany they let you pretend that pistols are for hunting.
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  45. I thought this was going to be another 10mm...:(
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  46. that also just seems like a significantly nicer weapon than I would expect from the words "WW1 standard rifle". and damn, that gun and sling are in great condition! :o
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  47. Arch Stanton they had to put a bottle opener on the galil because they accidentally made its magazines too functional as bottle openers, but not sturdy enough for this use. ^^
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  48.  @JankoTuta  not an electronics guy, but couldn't it be that the flashes are made brighter than a continuous beam by powering the laser through a capacitor that's charged by the battery between flashes? basically like a camera flash.
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  49. if you mean that long lengthwise horizontal joint in the middle of the stocks, that does nothing for durability (in fact it's a minor weakness, as the one of the two rifles where the joint is opening or has previously opened shows). it's a cost-saving measure to use less wood. assembling wooden parts by glueing together smaller pieces is less wasteful than using a big single block of flawless wood and cutting off a big chunk and throwing it away. you see the same on many other wooden objects like furniture - the most expensive furniture uses large single pieces of wood for individual parts, and the cheaper the furniture is, the smaller the pieces get, from solid to slats to blocks to plywood to particle boards. it's also a lot easier to cut out small pieces of wood between flaws like knots and branches in a given trumk of wood. because of this, a single flawless piece is always more expensive than two flawless pieces that equal its dimensions if you glue them together.
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  50. well, besides the issues of safety and machining quality mentioned in the video, I'm sure you can load cartriges or even hand-load single shots much more precisely than by relying on gravity to fill a consistent amount of powder without visually checking it, so the lorennzoni system probably delivers pretty inconsistent velocities and thus bad accuracy or sometimes even insufficient penetration.
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