Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Lewis Gas Operated Prototype Pistol" video.

  1. If I were rich enough to own something like this, I'd probably have a new magazine custom made for it and take it out to shoot myself.
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  2. SMGs were a very new concept at the time.
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  3. I would lean toward the idea that, if there'd been enough interest for further development, a grip safety would've been placed there. After all, Lewis was likely trying to interest the US Army, which at the time insisted on grip safeties.
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  4. The problem was that early semi-auto rifles tended to be either too weak, too unreliable, or too fragile to be effective infantry weapons. If not all of the above.
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