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

  1.  @mynick937  That makes perfect sense. French soldiers are used to the FAMAS, and the VHS-2 is like a FAMAS will all the flaws removed.
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  2. Yeah, I don't know what they were thinking to alter the design to make it look more generic.
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  3. He did pretty much just leave, ultimately. Pedro II was extremely popular and the coup had no public support. He could've easily put it down. But he was in poor health (he'd die 2 years later), apparently very tired of being emperor, had no sons, and doubted that his daughter would be accepted as Empress. So he refused to let anybody die fighting to maintain the monarchy and simply walked away into exile. Given how badly Brazil was governed afterward, they probably would've been better either seeing how daughter would be accepted or even just letting his 14-year-old grandson rule.
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  4. The Charlton doesn't look that kludged, just bulky. Until you open the box to see what's going on inside.
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  5. Well the Finns have made some great weapons for him to cover.
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  6.  @paulmanson253  Napoleon III actually did quite a bit to modernize France's infrastructure. The problem is that he thought that the name "Napoleon" made him just as much of a military genius as his uncle, which the Prussians proved was far from the case. And yes, he was not a nice man.
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  7.  @reallydontlikethem  But da red wunz go fasta!
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  8. Like Ian said, using it to prod a suspect to move the way you want him to. Whereas clubbing him with the pistol might cause him to drop like a sack of potatoes and then you've got to haul him to jail yourself instead of making him walk.
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  9. The bolt handle would be another indicator that a Type 38 Arisaka had been examined by Steyr's engineers and they decided to incorporate elements from it into their improved Mauser 98. That "onion" isn't quite the same as the lemon-shaped knob on Arisaka bolt handles, but it's certainly reminiscent of it.
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  10.  @nigeltheoutlaw  The purpose of .30 Super Carry was to be able to have higher capacity in narrow-frame pistols, while still having a serious self-defense round and not a mouse gun. 7.62 Tokarev can't do that. Any gun chambered in Tokarev will have the exact same mag capacity as 9mm. You'll get a flatter shooting round that penetrates better, but those aren't the overriding concerns for a concealed carry pistol. You'll get higher muzzle energy, but that's not strictly necessary since most people consider 9mm JHP to be sufficient.
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  11. If the French Army hadn't been too cheap to buy the FAMAS G2 20 years ago, you wouldn't have been in any need of a new rifle yet.
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  12. As valid as your point about how these were being marketed to people who couldn't read Latin-based alphabets, the gibberish markings are still hilarious. No doubt people in China and Japan find it just as hilarious when they see an American wearing a T-shirt or having a tattoo with gibberish Asian script on it.
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  13. The thing is, the average cop will go through his entire career without having to shoot at a suspect. And as such, most cops don't train at the range nearly enough to have that degree of muscle memory. Most train enough to meet the minimum standards and leave it at that.
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  14. A wood-core bullet? Unless I need to shoot a vampire, I think I'll stick to lead.
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  15. Hyperian All the competitors they could, yes.
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  16. ***** Spain ended their 7.62 CETME experiments and went to full-power 7.62 NATO well before they actually joined NATO, actually. And being built on a Mauser 98 action, I'd be very surprised if an FR-8 had any problem with 7.62 NATO.
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  17. +Forgotten Weapons From they way it's been described, it seems that the only clear advantage the M1911 had over the Remington 53 was that the M1911 was already in production, while there would've been significant start-up costs to switching to the Remington. It's really a shame that Remington failed so badly in producing a modern 9mm version of the design with the R51.
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  18. Given how much of the gold plating was worn away, I suspect the Ottoman sultan did go out and shoot his presentation pistol.
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  19. FAMAS-G2: "Not only cannot get, practically does not exist."
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  20. And very quiet during the shooting clip, too.
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  21. Well it's got the build quality of a Cybertruck, anyway.
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  22. Apparently, a few surplus K31s were converted by SIG to .308 for use in international shooting competitions. I'm sure it's been done from time to time otherwise, both in Switzerland and the United States. For any such American conversions, unless you can be sure it was done by a competent gunsmith I'd say pass.
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  23. That's exactly how it went in China. Western guns were perceived as higher-quality, but very few Chinese people knew what the symbols and Latin alphabet text actually meant. So the amusing typos ("Wauser", etc) and nonsense text didn't automatically alert them that it's a copy.
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  24.  @sbreheny  Yeah, if something like this were being made now, it would be more for the UK where they ban semi-autos in general. And where they don't have a constitutional right to bear arms, so getting it overturned is unlikley.
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  25. As for use in Ukraine, there were indeed large numbers of old Russia Maxims warehoused in Ukraine that were taken out of storage for the current war. With millions and millions of rounds of 7.62x54R to feed them, they're still viable defensive weapons. That trolley mount with the gun shield is original, the Russian Empire used them in that same configuration in World War I.
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  26. UK gun laws are easy enough to understand, they're just far more restrictive than US laws.
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  27.  @joetaylor486  He was John Browning's successor for a reason.
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  28.  @Immafraid  But for ease of transition this would've had a serious advantage. The French Army has been using exclusively bullpups for decades. Anybody who's trained on the FAMAS would probably find the VHS-2 very similar to handle. (Though a shorter length of pull might've been appreciated, since the average Frenchman isn't as tall as the average Croatian.) But you're right that H&K probably gave them an excellent deal.
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  29.   Funny thing about that, they basically did. They just didn't realize it. A steam turbine was invented in 1st century Alexandria, but was regarded as just a toy.
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  30. I can't say that it's my favorite, that'd be the Hi-Power. But my totally ordinary Luger is too much fun to think of selling. It might not be a pristine all-matching example that gets collectors excited, but my mismatched shooter saw plenty of military and police use, between the Wehrmacht and the East German Volkspolizei.
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  31. I mean, I get the appeal of having your army's rifle and light machine gun share many components. But if you've got the MG3 available and you use this instead, you're doing it wrong.
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  32. Or for defense while travelling, you do like Egypt and mount it on a T-34 chassis.
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  33. I can see why they required a tool to unlock the fun switch. There's basically no situation in which it'd be actually useful.
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  34. 5:36 Is that grip as uncomfortable as it looks like it would be? Because it looks really terrible. 9:58 And this second style of Sten Mk II stock looks like it would be far more comfortable in the hand. Is it?
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  35. You have to wonder how things would've turned out if the Grand Browning had been adopted. Would the Hi-Power have been designed for the same 9.65mm round? Probably, since that would've become the Belgian military standard, and once France lost interest in the Grand Rendement the design became focused on the Belgian contract. And if the Hi-Power was in 9.65mm, how widely accepted would that round have become? Would it have resulted in the Hi-Power being less successful on the export market, or would it have resulted in the 9.65mm round becoming the world standard instead of 9mm?
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  36.  @Quintus_Fontane  I'm pretty sure the FG 42 in this video is one of the newly-made semi-auto repros from SMG. So it's not like turning one into a straight-pull would be destroying a piece of history.
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  37.  @alexsis1778  By the letter of the law, it is. This time it's not the ATF pulling something out of their ass. It's a matter of a 91-year-old law that was written by Congresscritters who didn't think things out and probably didn't know much about guns.
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  38.  @abb1793  Yes, the arm braces are a loophole to get around the SBR restrictions. But the SBR restrictions are a bad law, so I can't get upset about people using that loophole until ATF issued new regulations to close it.
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  39. Probably because of the import restrictions of the 1968 Gun Control Act, combined with full-auto assault rifles becoming nearly universal to the world's militaries.
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  40. Yes, it's really quite bizarre to refer to the P90 as a scaled-down F2000. It's on the same level as claiming the M14 is a scaled-up Mini-14.
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  41. Ostensibly, such import restrictions were supposed to be about making the imported guns less suitable for criminal use. But even from that standpoint, requiring the bayonet be removed still makes no sense. I mean, when was the last time you heard of a drive-by bayoneting? Or a bayonet murder of any kind, for that matter? That said, from a purely constitutional basis, I don't think there's any valid issue to raise against import bans. They're annoying, but the 2nd Amendment clearly only applies inside US borders. Congress very much has the power under the Constitution to regulate what can be imported, even if the regulations they impose are stupid. There's nothing in the Constitution requiring that the laws Congress passes must be smart. If there were, a lot more laws would be getting struck down on those grounds.
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  42.  @LazyLifeIFreak  I'd take the FAL, personally.
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  43. The question is, if it hadn't been for the US insisting on the 7.62 NATO cartridge, and instead the intermediate .280 round had been adopted as 7x43mm NATO, would the transition to rounds like 5.56x45mm have ever happened?
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  44.  @MeshFrequency  As opposed to PPC which lost every riding in the 2019 election?
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  45. Ah, the Webley-Fosbery. One of my favorite oddball weapons.
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  46. Fal-chan was my favorite, even though she was just a minor character.
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  47. So what's spurring those laws? Paranoia about Basque and Catalan separatists, or just ordinary anti-gun sentiment?
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  48. They're also very similar in overall length, so it would probably have been workable in the existing Mosin magazine. The .303 rim is 0.76mm smaller than 7.62x54R, so there would need to be some alteration to the extractor, but otherwise probably the existing bolt would've been fine. It's kind of surprising that Estonia didn't do it, since they were already cutting the barrels down to the shorter length.
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  49. That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw this. That it would be a nice gun for people in the UK and Australia, where semi-autos are all banned.
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  50.  @ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz  The "low power" training ammo seems like it would be perfectly adequate for combat. The Army brass required this round to be higher velocity than there was any real need for it to be. The problem is that by designing the cartridge and rifle to meet that requirement, the cartridge is heavier than it needs to be. 140 rounds of 6.8x51 weighs more than 210 rounds of 5.56x45. I'm all for going with a higher caliber than 5.56mm. The US Army went from one extreme to the other by going from 7.62 to 5.56, and I very much believe something in the 7mm range would've been a better choice. (Such as, you know. The .280 British round that was rejected 70 years ago for being British.) But if the new 6.8 cartridge weighs just as much as 7.62x51, what's the point? 6.8mm Remington SPC already seems to have gotten it right 20 years ago.
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