Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. Croatia isn't (currently) known as a major firearms producer, since the center of the Yugoslav arms industry was always in Serbia. It also doesn't help that HS Produkt's other major design (the HS2000 pistol) is being sold in the US as the Springfield XD, and thus lots of Americans don't even realize it's Croatian. Sure, people that actually own one can see the "Made in Croatia" on the side of the frame, but still.
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  2.  @0neDoomedSpaceMarine  Israeli police still use the M1 Carbine for exactly that reason.
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  3. I have to say, had I been a Japanese officer or NCO in that period...I would have preferred the S&W No.3 that these replaced.
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  4. ​ @Shadow_Hawk_Streaming  Possibly it was from one of the black infantry regiments, who despite being US Army fought under French command and used French rifles.
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  5.  @randylahey2242  And yet Stoner's best design is still considered obscure compared to one of his earlier designs. Funny how that works.
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  6. Had to have been a different brother, since John C. Colt was already dead well before the Crimean War.
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  7. I'd never even given any thought to Lugers having that "toe" at the bottom of the grip. But damn, it makes them dramatically less attractive to remove that tiny feature.
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  8. It seems to me like the obvious way to make the Mosin safety more usable would've been to put a ring on the back of it like on the Swiss rifles.
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  9. +Jeffrey Reardon The Nazi infighting is pretty well known, the fact that Hitler actually wanted it to be that way is not.
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  10. Honestly, they'd have been better off if they'd just chambered the Pattern 13 in 7mm Mauser. But I guess the thinking was that if the high-velocity, flat-shooting round the Boers used was good, an even higher-velocity, flatter-shooting round would be even better.
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  11. At first I was wondering about why there would be such a thing as a "Chinese guardian lion" since lions have never been native to China. But after I looked it up, it makes sense. Chinese emperors were being given lions as gifts by Persian emissaries at least as early as the 6th century AD, so they knew what a lion was for a long time.
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  12. "To solve the problem Ordnance took away the gages." Because as everybody knows, ignoring a problem makes it go away.
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  13. TheGoldenCaulk Some of them like the Madsen were very successful, and just became "forgotten" because when it comes to old weapons it seems like only the major powers' guns get remembered.
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  14. What's under the thin triangular plate on the right side of that .577 pistol's case?
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  15. Slavery was also just not as important to the slavers in the UK. British slavers simply saw it as a means to make money. The government compensating them for their freed slaves was something they'd accept. But in the American South, slavery had become more than just an economic system. It was the foundation of their entire society.
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  16.  @VMEMotor5  To be fair, you can't conceal a mace very easily. A lot of restrictions on bladed weapons are based on stuff that's easy for a criminal to conceal. That doesn't make throwing star bans any less stupid, of course. I would honeslty be surprised if any western nation has ever had a throwing star murder happen. I suppose it's possible that assassins in feudal Japan might have killed somebody with a throwing star at some point, but only if it were poison coated.
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  17. When I first saw it on SG-1, I thought it was a fictional gun they were using. Wasn't until later I discovered it was real.
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  18. This certainly isn't an unfired gun, and if you're diligent about maintaining it the condition shouldn't be hurt by shooting the thing.
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  19.  @Hybris51129  .308 isn't bad by any means, but it had no real reason to be adopted as a military round. .280 would've been a much better choice for select-fire infantry rifles, and .30-06 was already fine for machine guns.
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  20. Don't forget the FN-49.
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  21.  @firstcynic92  Full-auto is a rich man's hobby. The inability to register new ones since 1986 has driven the price to insane levels.
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  22.  @tomalong99  Still seems like bayonets are something you'd want bodyguards to have. Sure, things are getting bad if your royal guard has to engage in hand to hand combat, but it's also getting bad if they have to use their weapons at all. And having a fixed bayonet increases the intimidation factor, which is always something you want out of the visible team of bodyguards.
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  23.  @spartanretro  we're referencing Ian's love of French firearms.
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  24.  @ulqinaku8471  The concept of Zouaves originated in the French Army, where they were Algerian Berber volunteers. This idea didn't last very long, and later Zouave units consisted entirely of Frenchmen (either metropolitan or Algerian-born). Despite this, they still wore the same uniforms, and thus there's still a definite "North African Muslim" aesthetic to it. And the Papal Zouaves wore a uniform heavily based on that of the French Zouaves. Thus, Catholics dressing up like Muslims.
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  25.  @uncletiggermclaren7592  Brazil seems to be pretty happy with French submarines.
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  26. My inclination is "no." I suspect they're significantly overestimating how effective Russian and Chinese body armor is, if they think a round this hot is necessary to beat it.
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  27. Kind of like "what if those SKS conversions to 30 round box mags were actually good?"
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  28. Any chance of an 88mm Pak-43 next?
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  29. Seems rather silly to cut them up and toss them in the Channel. Even if they're such pieces of junk that you can see nothing better to do than destroy them, why wouldn't they have melted them down for scrap? They're still made of steel after all.
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  30. Anything NK already in the US would still command a premium for their lack of import marks.
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  31. I was wondering, are there any physical examples left of the truly forgotten offshoot of the 1911, the FN Grand Browning?
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  32. The change in the mag release and accompanying change in the catch on the mag was actually done before the 1915 and 1917; in 1912 I believe. So early 1907s used the original mags, while later ones used the same mag as the 1917. And for a while mags were made with dual catches so they could be used in both early and late 1907s. Oh, and you didn't mention it but the only mags with the hold-open were for the 1915.
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  33.  @andrewschulze3865  Well if export laws are the issue, then HK should just manufacture it at their factory in Georgia.
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  34.  @ForgottenWeapons  Well with the new administration coming in, the restrictions on travel to Cuba will probably be loosened again. So maybe once COVID is over you could have a go at it.
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  35.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  The fact that it's physically possible to change the barrel without having put your hand on the hot metal is still a clear advantage for the MG43/MG3, and it's baffling that the M60 didn't include that.
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  36. 2:18 I'm guessing that the reason for the length of pull being so long to begin with and having the option to make it even longer is that it's Croatian. On average the tallest people in the world are Croatians.
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  37. Probably too obscure for there to be enough of a market, unfortunately.
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  38. Because Churchill, the supposedly "strong" British leader, had decided that Britain's role in the world should be "America's submissive lapdog". And he got his way, with every PM since following suit.
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  39. He bought them for himself and the rest of the officers of the Rough Riders, while the enlisted men used standard Krags.
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  40.  @madkoala2130  It was. K98k Mausers and 7.92x57 became the standard rifle and cartridge once the war was won, simply because it's what Israel had the most of. When the IDF adopted the FAL in 1955, 7.62x51 became the standard caliber, and there were so many Mausers still in use (and it'd take a while to make enough FALs and Uzis to arm everybody) that they did a mass rebarreling of them to 7.62.
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  41. I remember several years ago, L85 videos would be flooded with "poor Elle-chan" comments.
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  42. The 7.62x53R has a 7.85mm bullet diameter (compared to 7.92mm for 7.62x54R),53.5mm case length (compared to 53.72mm), 14.4mm rim diamater (compared to 14.48mm), and 77mm overall length (compared to 77.16mm). That difference is usually not enough to matter, though. Unlike some other not-quite-identical cartridges such as .308 Winchester and 7.62x51 or .223 Remington and 5.56x45, 7.62x53R and 7.62x54R also have identical maximum pressure. So a gun that can fire one can almost always fire the other. So why does 7.62x53R even exist? Apparently after becoming independent, Finland switched to smaller diameter (7.82mm) barrels when the original barrels of their Mosin-Nagants started to wear out. Why did they do that instead of replicating the existing bore diameter? No idea. I know they bought a bunch of new barrel blanks from SIG in the early 1920s, so maybe that's just what SIG had in stock at the time.
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  43. Sadly this time around France is doing the boring thing and just buying off the shelf HK416s for their next rifle, instead of Frenching it up first. I would've loved to see them come up with something that looks like a FAMAS and an HK416 had a kid.
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  44. I'd say it was a mistake for Italy to switch to 7.35mm, and not just in terms of logistics. They would've been better off just switching to a spitzer bullet for the 6.5mm. Also, they did make some semi-auto rifles in 6.5mm Carcano. But none ever got past the prototype stage.
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  45. ​ eric kowalski  Franco was smarter than the average fascist and decided that he didn't want want in on that ass-kicking that Hitler and Mussolini were about to receive. Hence he accomplished something that they couldn't: living into old age.
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  46. That would make sense, especially given exactly which police department these were issued to.
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  47. Dan Morgan There were a great many better options available to the US Army than the Springfield trapdoor, which apparently remained in service for decades on end through sheer inertia.
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  48. MrRoboskippy I guarantee you at least some of the rare guns that show up in gun buybacks actually go home "off the books" with some cop or sheriff's deputy working the buyback. They'll "forget" to log it as one of the guns taken in and no one is the wiser.
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  49. Are you going to cover the 16-shot Nambu that's also being auctioned? http://www.rockislandauction.com/viewitem/aid/67/lid/1632
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  50.  @ekscalybur  And like attaching a stock to your pistol, attaching a suppressor makes it a lot longer and thus harder to conceal, and thus in the vast majority of circumstances less useful to a criminal. If you have a pistol with both a shoulder stock and a suppressor attached, you're easily tripling its length. Meaning that if a criminal wants to conceal it for use in crimes, he'll need to take off the stock and suppressor to conceal them separately. (And even a detached stock is going to be hard to conceal unless he's wearing a coat or stuffs it in a backpack.) Which brings us back to the criminal just using a regular, non-NFA pistol for his crimes. Because it's not like when he mugs somebody he's going to pause to screw the suppressor back on and get the stock out of his backpack to put it on the pistol. The only crime I can think of where a criminal would take time to assemble his weapon on the spot before shooting is a sniper-style assassination. In which case, he'd be using a takedown rifle to get into his firing position without people noticing he's armed. Nobody's going to snipe with a pistol, even if it does have a stock attached. And remember, takedown rifles are not NFA items.
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