Comments by "bakters" (@bakters) on "Bechowiec: Polish Teenager Makes a Resistance SMG" video.

@randomnobodovsky3692 " there are conflicting version on this (and Ian told the most sensational, which is also most popular) " If he saw how simple were other SMGs, why would he go for a hammer fired design? It does make sens that he went the route he knew, that is he scaled up those Spanish pistols he copied as a teen. I bet people who claim he likely seen other solutions didn't see one themselves, and if they even did, they didn't know what they were looking at anyway.
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@Tryputo404 " there is only Germanic (Western) Europe [and no, Czechia isn't Western], Slavic (Eastern) Europe, Latin (Southern) Europe and Balkans. " If you divide by ethnic background that does make some sense, but that's not the only valid way. You could also divide by cultural background, where Western Europe was Roman Catholic while Eastern Europe was Orthodox. And if we go further that way, it makes sense to separate Central Europe from the rest, because we stayed Catholic even during the Reformation. Then Central Europe would consist of Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland. It all depends how you want to go about it.
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@randomnobodovsky3692 " fixed firing pin options look (and somwhat are) terribly unsafe to manufacture via trial-and-error method " Why would that be the case? Royal Nonesuch managed to do it fine, back when such content was still possible on Youtube. What makes hammer-firing inherently safer?
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@randomnobodovsky3692 " self-taught person in early 20th century rural Poland and not modern person with access to a lot of knowledge? " That's how he decided to copy a more complex design, not? " chance of out-of-battery detonation " It's a 9/19. Even if you puncture the primer and wedge the bullet in the barrel, not much is going to happen in a submachine gun. Even sturdier pistols can just "take it". Limiting the amount of moving parts, though? A huge plus, if we are talking about trying to make it in secret. Seriously, I'm still quite convinced he never saw how simply it can be done.
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@cyrilhudak4568 " Wasn't Prussia and East Prussia part of Germanic Europe? " Culturally yes, ethnically they were mostly Slavs.
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@Tryputo404 " Prussians (other Baltic ethnicity) " Baltic Prussians were practically wiped out. The Teutons needed workforce then, and it came from Slavic Mazowsze (Warsaw area). Those people called themselves Mazury and that's how Eastern Prussia is actually called too. There were more Germanic people in the cities, but until very recently more than 80% of people lived in villages, so Eastern Prussia was ethnically Slavic. Culturally too, despite all the efforts of Frederics and Bismarcks of their time. The majority of people spoke Polish even after the WW1. They finally germanized only during the inter-war period.
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@randomnobodovsky3692 I never claimed that out-of-battery detonation is not a problem, only that it's not a serious problem. You seemed to argue, that trying to dial it in with trial&error is dangerous. No, it isn't. And once you get it right, there is very little which can go wrong. On the other hand, a hammer-fired gun can and does detonate OOB at times. All it takes is maybe a tiny burr on the firing pin, or even a bit of dirt. I don't see how it's any safer, considering the conditions in which those guns were expected to be made. Then likely handed out to people who couldn't be well trained in the use of them. Accidentally, I spoke to a dude who served back then, as a teen. So he survived, because when he wanted to shoot, he'd go deep into the forest. His two friends, who were less cautious or lucky, were captured, executed and dropped on the street for everybody to see. In conditions like this, the simpler the gun is, the safer it is.
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