Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. "this rifle was only designed to be fired from the right shoulder." you mean the british designed it to fire from the properly issued british shoulder
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  2. love how they put wood even on the breech block. Whoever designed this probably had a wood paneled house, a wood paneled car and probably lived in the 1950s
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  3. "They build 20 tool room rifles... oh look, I have one right here next to me!" Oh Ian, casually just mentioning you have a 1 of 20 primordial FAL under the table
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  4. apparently the best rifle for hitting a moving target from a book depository at least.
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  5. "I like the walker but its not reliably breaking my wrists" "Hmmmmmmmm" -local gunsmith
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  6. this isnt a machinegun its a tool for converting loaded .22lr to empty brass
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  7. "And who are you to say this is fake?" points to his book on french rifles "Ah ok."
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  8. pak40: man pushes button, dust clouds appear
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  9. dear ATF please remove this gun from the machine gun classification my evidence is that nobody will ever ever be able to make one shoot fully automatic even if the weapon is technically capable of doing so.
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  10. Today's Forgotten Weapon: A gun accessory that works as advertised
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  11. "What are we gonna do to replace these colt 1911's?" "....why don't we just buy more colt 1911s?"
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  12. Now for Today's round of "Is it German!" serial numbers on the serial numbers "Yes!"
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  13. there's something entirely british about stubbornly refusing to adopt a self loading pistol this hard
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  14. Such a stark difference from the germans, not a single number on any of the nuts and bolts, let alone a proof mark. How will we know those bolts can hold the stock on if they haven't been numbered and checked!?
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  15. the germans use proof marks, the US uses imperials, and the swiss use complexity to keep people from copying their designs
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  16. "Theres activators that give you a limited time target" Absolutely sprays the limited time target
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  17. "And by 1945, dear lord the russians are coming!" best summery of 1945
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  18. 12:28 This just gives me the image of some hogan's heroesesque comedy where every cave and bunker they go into already has its own secret wonder weapon program and they joke about how hard it is to setup a secret weapons program
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  19. "Shooter ready?!" Chunk, chunk, shloop, chunk, thunk "READY!"
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  20. "cartridge rifles are wasteful, soldiers will just fire too fast!" "lever rifles are bad because soldiers will burn up ammunition too fast!" "Double action revolvers are bad because they will fire off their shots wildly!" "Magazine bolt actions are wasteful because they will fire too fast!" "Self loading battle rifles are too wasteful!" "Automatic assault rifles are bad because they will spray and pray!" Times change, but the frugality of commanders never changes
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  21. "welcome to ares, here's your safety glasses, your shoes, your beard and ponytail...
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  22. what's this, a US Military pistol development program that actually finished? quite forgotten
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  23. "Betcha wondering, did he fire five or six shots?" dirtbag notices the stump where harry's hand was "uh...."
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  24. the things machinists got away with before the invention of middle meddling management
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  25. germany, making a bazooka that kills the operator is just a feature.
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  26. "Honey what did you do all day?" "Just shooting revolvers."
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  27. Alternative Title: Florida Man builds .50BMG AR
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  28. now you see vault dweller, you can have a jankey pipe gun today or come back next week for ARfrankenstein!
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  29. Failure to Feed: Hit with rock Failure to Eject: Also hit with rock Failure to Fire: Is AK, this doesn't happen.
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  30. "Was that 4 jazails with one shot or 1 jazail with 4 shots!?" -A poor redcoat, probably
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  31. its like the designer decided to reinvent the wheel then the axle, then the cart, then the horse, the harness, ect ect...
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  32. "Its the 4th most popular breech-loading carbine of the civil war!" great thing to stick on the poster
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  33. "They concluded there are enough of you who watch ian, who also watch me and play world of tanks" ha, the obvious cross marketing
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  34. Russians: "Everyone, we built a new gun for everybody to use and defend communism everywhere!" Czechs: laughing in czechoslovakian
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  35. its like the ordinance guys sat around a table going "That's notta knife!" while pulling out increasingly dumber bayonets until one accidentally got stamped off for approval
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  36. "A cruder sten gun" so like an actual piece of plumbing with a magazine sticking out of it?
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  37. Its remarkably functional for what it is. Like who would bother to put a functional grip safety on a workshop gun like this, let alone a double trigger
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  38. crap or not, this thing is in astonishing shape for being over 100 years old
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  39. I think that's kind of funny that they're so proud of their new cartridge and then you go "Oh that's 7.65 french long!" and they're like "What's that?"
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  40. james bond's other problem is that everybody assumes anyone carrying a walther ppk is a british 00 spy even those hundreds of german police officers carrying them
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  41. absolutely pristine, this thing had to have sat in an armory somewhere instead of on the seas
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  42. "I'm you but smol!" Balilla upon being confronted by a Carcano for the first time
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  43. one was Karl with...just go watch his exhaustive video, the other three...they must have been bad at shooting
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  44. Hunting Rifle Ammunition sounds like a very reliable and sustainable supplier of hunting rifle ammunition that couldn't possibly go out of business
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  45. and that owner happens to be the person I stole it from!
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  46. "This pistol is sufficient for our requirements." -germans
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  47. last week: "Here's some german space magic" Italy: "Hold my beer..."
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  48. "alas the nypd threw theirs in the ocean..." more difficult things have been dredged up from the ocean floor.
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  49. and remember if you have communist tetanus, everyone has communist tetanus
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  50. unless you're strapped for cash, then hire the B team
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  51. I can hear the meetings between H&K branches "We have made a brand new police 9mm pistol!" -Europe "Great, does it come in .45?" -America sigh
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  52. this really seems like the army looking around and realizing there's been 30+ years of development on AR's and getting ahead of it again
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  53. just another 28 years and you'll have AKs that are 100 years old. That's scary
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  54. the beginning of german clockwerk magic
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  55. imagine being a guy who was a little slow with the bicycle and didn't make the train, and also would apparently missed the end of the war
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  56. time to box ian up and ship him out again
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  57. Stage 1 is like a 50 yard jog where you're expected to be a precision shooter after each jog, not sure I could do that especially by the final shots
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  58. Mauser: Make rifle flapper lock Mauser again: Make a pistol flapper lock Mauser yet again: Make machinegun flapper lock! H&K: Make literally everything roller or flapper delayed for the next 60 years
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  59. a black powder maxim must have been a hell of a sight, just a massive cloud of smoke
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  60. "Presumably cheaper to manufacture." oh so they stopped excessively stamping everythin-
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  61. swiss, the only country to hold a weapons trial through the entirity of ww2
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  62. its like the exact opposite of what they needed
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  63. 37mm HE machinegun, oh ya Maxim saw aircraft as something needed to be obliterated.
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  64. the M60 says "Papa...?"
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  65. mostly because cnc'ing is soooooo cheap and time efficient now, and that's 3 axis and pretty much every shop can afford at least a couple cnc cabinets now
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  66. "Now pay attention double-o-seven, take this standard H&K G3 Rifle, note the shortened barrel. Fires Point three-oh-Eight ammunition. Blinding your adversaries for a quick escape."
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  67. "And 5 of them went to one guy." there's a marketing and demographics joke in this somewhere.
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  68. an 1870s rifle with sights you cannot use, seems correct for the period
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  69.  @MrLoobu  bolts gonna break before a ball bearing
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  70. the front sight is elevation adjustable, windage is going to be sort of difficult.
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  71. "So simple, just make an AR but .50 cal" Serbu, probably.
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  72. Setting 1:No Bullet Setting 2: Light Crowd Control Setting 3: Make World War 2 Last Longer
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  73. James McIlvenny who touch heavy's gun!
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  74. I know 4 out of 5 bond villains preferred the sterling smg in its day
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  75. what a wild time when you could buy a brand new civil war revolver and jump into your model T
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  76. Does this make it a papa mauser? (I'll see myself out.)
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  77. we should have bombed germany's stamp factories. they would never have been able to manufacture anything without them.
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  78. this gun seems like it was really ahead of its time in some ways. That bolt looks pretty modern even though its for a totally different time.
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  79. "Ugh, I'm swiss and I want to target shoot but none of the target pistols out there are as complicated as my watch!" "Have we got the gun for you....!"
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  80. pops the action THUD "its a tremendously simple gun." gun is stronk!
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  81. this looks very well built yet also not overbuilt like you'd expect from italian guns
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  82. other tapes were available...
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  83. forgotten weapons: James D Julia Auction House Table "its uh seen a lot of historical firearms over the years. Legs fold up, and this decorative table cover is custom...that's about it."
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  84. Its like a cookie jar only a crate full of guns
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  85. but top loading makes a lot of sense for a vehicle weapon, more than a bottom loading gun depending on how its mounted
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  86. so they pulled a radar O'Riley on him by calling it a machine pistol
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  87.  @circleofsorrow4583  I think the issue is more that the prop company can't afford to buy a huge pile of uzi's so they buy a lot of cheaper stuff that looks like uzi's
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  88. What Would Eugene Stoner Do...if he needed a 50 BMG rifle
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  89. a fool and his money are easily parted.
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  90. "Today I have for you a single shot .38 pistol from the man who owned the rights to the revolver"
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  91. "Germans could have won WW2 with just this 1 trick!"
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  92. the missing link between mauser and H&K
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  93. bloke in a shed, how britain does technology
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  94. El Guusko right, its hard to make a simple gun that doesn't explode. you can see someone who knew exactly what they could get out of their materials did a lot of very smart design work on this
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  95. Elbonia went and bought from a proper manufacturer, they bought Winchester Model 1911's thinking they were handguns
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  96. and the guide rod is connected to the...tappet piston, the tappet piston's connected to the...op rod. the op rod's connected to the...bolt head...
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  97. too bad they never put this into production, it looks like a beautiful gun
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  98. except when he's doing a bit like shouting scripture or communism
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  99. phased out but not forgotten.
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  100. it was an interesting time when you could as a small military, equip your force with superior weapons than your larger more imperial neighbors might be able to or were willing to
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  101. I think the general problem with paper cartridges is they're not rigid enough to reliably feed using these systems, plus before pretty much the 1930s, repeating rifles were quite difficult to get working
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  102. I'd like to think Wauser arms were quite popular with the Elbonian National Police Agency
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  103. 30 years from now "Oh damn this was sporterised then desporterised, mark it down."
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  104. seems like in hindsight, 1939 was not the year to start rearming
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  105. "Welcome to forgotten... eh garage?"
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  106. "they set up a spirits distillery" I can kinda see why that didn't go anywhere in a nominally islamic country
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  107. the movie just used a sw .38 with a comically long barrel extension. THIS IS REAL
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  108. "There's 10,000 books" oh man you guys really did good for this book. Glad to hear you guys are moving, and about to get really busy
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  109. today you have flashlights, lasers, and foregrips, back then you had sight protectors and sight micrometers
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  110. Jeff England barrels and receivers are (or were) probably impossible to machine to the right quality in Turkey back then, only a few places had the technical knowledge to make large production runs of precise machined weapons back then
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  111. you have to ask yourself how much ammo was the ussr making that they decided they needed to save lead on pistol ammo
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  112. Customer: "I need more daka!" Gunsmith: "Here's a knock rifle..." Customer:"Still more daka!" Gunsmith ......
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  113. he is a man of many hats and helms
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  114. bayonet on your pistol because even the officers are needed when luxembourg charges
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  115. Just hope this doesn't turn into an alt-right shitshow like a lot of alternative sites these days. Nobody can seem to launch a YT competitor without having that problem
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  116. "Because their day job wasn't toting around a rifle all day." ya just toting around a few cannons, ammunition, and ancillary accessories to operating a battery of cannons was heavy enough
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  117. no, the nypd deliberately dumped tons of firearms, gambling machines, and booze into the atlantic to ensure nobody, not even new jersey could get their hands on their contraband
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  118. not always so easy since you'd have to change the parachutes, bags, possibly airplanes, the manufacturing process, and also training as well as ensuring the new parachute works, not something you can easily accomplish under war time pressure. Plus germany was done paratrooping by the middle of the war
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  119. ya until the civil war they were recieving aid from the us which probably dictated where they can buy their stuff
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  120.  @redram5150  henry ford, stubbornly ignored ergonomics, even when he had the dodge brothers who would invent the modern arrangement, on his payroll.
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  121. I could see this on archer. "Ha, you've got a sig 2/10 and you just fired eight bullets, so you're out of- OW LAAAAANAAAAAA"
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  122. ya i mean if a 100+ year old gun needs parts, it shouldn't deter people from fixing it and making it functional. they just need to make sure to sell it on its merits and history not its rarity
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  123. metal sintering lead to metal injection molding which is today one of the most practical ways to make complex parts cheaply and is evolving into 3d printing and sintering. Interesting early thing going on there.
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  124. tbf, if soviet paratroopers are coming as we've learned, you actually want a stinger missile to deal with them all at once in a horrific fireball instead of pdw's holding them off in a firefight
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  125. that's actually kind of funny as well because navy ships and army headquarters needed tons of very complex teletypes that were made by the same companies
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  126. seems like someone made a frankengun, then sold it, then that person wants to sell it not realizing its a frankengun because nobody can be that dense
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  127. love how ian massaged this, these aren't simply terrible guns, they're special terrible guns
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  128. hmmm Ian brings up a great point about accidentally obliterating protestors...
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  129. ww1 combat ranges weren't all that far away though in some regions.
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  130. only the french would make a pistol that can also open a bottle of wine someone needs to make a modern version of this in .22
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  131.  @theJellyjoker  or the history of military dogmatic inertia, the springfield stuck around because it was cheap and serviceable even if it wasn't really the best option to keep bringing forward
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  132.  @hubert3704  sure blame the leftists like usual
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  133. it ain't an 1800s carbine if your knife is shorter than the gun it goes on
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  134. heavy barrelled FAL, because the soldiers weren't complaining enough.
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  135. "Not all the normally serialized parts are serialized on french produced lugers" Ah well that's technically an improvement
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  136. you can just remove the holdopen and let it be a lock on empty which given the mags being more likely the problem, might be a good thing anyways
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  137. almost looks to me like one owner who knew about the barrel extension put it in the case without the extension on, as it fits quite nicely. Then sold it to another owner who had no idea about it and tried to shove it into the case with the extension on.
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  138. probably because of all the beligerants of ww2, japan ended the war with the least amount of surviving weaponry, and what little did, we dumped into the ocean, so only the odd survivor or trophy exists today
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  139.  @51WCDodge  he's still not wrong, their naming convention was never particularly followed by their armorers
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  140. its like just stamping stars everywhere is a bad idea for revision control
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  141. Govanmauler I'd imagine they'd all be so covered in dust and rubble they couldn't smell much of anything. those walls were dropping tons of concrete and from Ian's brief walk through the floors there had to be just covered in the stuff and everything had to be just caked in powdered cement
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  142. "simple" minute of angle measurement
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  143. I still can't believe you can get this company's grenade launcher, remove the launcher part and just pin it to the front of this thing
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  144. I'd imagine ww2 was probably the deathknell for them because pinfire guns were woefully obsolete and cartridges were more plentiful than ever
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  145.  @alienvalentine  ya the cesnas in the AF museum recieved from the airforce only allegedly went to cambodia
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  146. revolvers in ww2 weren't that bad though and they had a bazillion ww1 revolvers kicking around
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  147. it is not french, just like Hercule Poirot, it is Belgian thankyouverymuch (still the same getup though)
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  148. kinda makes sense, boring the barrel out makes a lot of sense if it has the material left to do it, plus the lifespan of this gun was not meant to be long
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  149. makes you appreciate what they had to do to get the laser sight in Terminator to show on camera so well
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  150.  @smartacus88  the G11's case was some sort of polymer that combusted with the powder
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  151. - TheNuttyGunNut - "they use their schools to teach hate..." when they're not running from gun toting maniacs.
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  152. really comitted to the 72 round capacity. he could have fit like 30 rounds without needing to do cylindrical ammo
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  153.  kevin lawrence  its not explicitly that its all cheap, older stuff especially electronics broke in a more routine way, but also could be fixed easier. Todays electronics like a tv can go 10 years without any component failing something unheard of even 20 years ago, but that also leaves a tv repair man unable to develop the skills or volume of business.
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  154. "Sir, should we require compulsory ownership of service pattern rifles or sidearms?" Gasser: Yes
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  155. Don't you mean their research branch on Deep Space Radio Emission
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  156. Kyle Evans ya but good luck ever shooting it, 130 year old obsolete ammunition is probably a nightmare to find especially since it was a rimmed cartridge
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  157. "in the 20s the army developed a wooden bullet for practice." ya practice killing vampires.
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  158. its said to summon a bunch of kreigsmariners from the grave
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  159. oh look Sons of Guns ruined a perfectly good firearm, real shock, glad they kicked the bucket
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  160. well, cold war smgs specifically were sheet metal wherever possible, polymer where needed after 1970. these were meant to be quality cheap guns
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  161.  @joshualance6005  something tells me the grunt that was issued this was probably not trusted with normal magazines
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  162. when you don't have a dozen generals and politicians telling you how to build your rifle then it can go together quite quickly
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  163. "This gun has 13 springs." also "This was the last gun this company ever made." Gee I wonder why? Probably that smudgy finish "It has ball bearings in the pistol under all the springs!" Oh wow.
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  164. this thing is like a steam engine that spits bullets with those back and forth cams and the hydraulic buffer
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  165. "Terrifying and fascinating at the same time." The chump that would have had to fire the potentially explosive springfield might not think so.
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  166. 44WarmocK77 not even a serial number on the screws, tsk tsk
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  167. buy a couple of sticks of dynamite at the corner store for that stump in the back yard while you're at it
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  168. probably didn't help that it's reputation went in the trash approximately around 1963
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  169.  Graham  What we have here today is a 100 caliber, brick. Produced in kilns across Ireland, this came out of the factory in many colors, sizes, and glazes. Today we'll discuss how to tell if your brick was weaponized from the factory or afterwords by Shamash.
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  170. I thought the only issue is 5.56 is essentially a hot loaded .223 meaning all the issues associated with hot rounds, but then there's hot loaded .223 out there these days anyways and there's certainly guns that are a bit overbuilt for .223 anyways
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  171.  @charlesadams1721  Per the Official History of the Great Patriotic War 1967 Edition "The aid from the United States was inconsiquential." ya the US basically lifted the USSR and they were totally ungrateful for it
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  172. a really well designed if ultimately unsuccessful gun, 3 piece disassembly seems pretty impressive
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  173. William Terry sounds about as generic as James Bond
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  174. the manufacturer knows the coefficient of thermal expansion of the specific polymer blend and would have reams and reams of data from quality testing and would probably have picked a polymer that expands at a rate similar to the metal to prevent fatigue and cracking
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  175. starfleethastanks they also had that wicked four engined flying wing bomber as well, guess they only had the one though...
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  176.  @LOL-zu1zr  when you fire you gotta shout "Daka daka daka!"
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  177. @airborneleaf brace the gun against your leg, fire 1 handed. Not sure how the bottom trigger would work with it. Also this person could have been disabled and rich enough to commission a shotgun, but not rich enough to commission a good shotgun
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  178. ya africa went to absolute shit in the 70s/80s because of so many factors but nobody seemed to do anything to stop it
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  179. "So can I get a few regular vickers for ground training?" "what's wrong with your air-cooled ones?" furious bureaucracy ensued
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  180. tactical miner's lamp
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  181. Mongo63a its still very much a 1st generation smg, heavy, made of wood and machined metal, and expensive
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  182. really makes you question the history book take on ethiopia's military strength going into ww2
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  183. Monte PR the NRA just need to stop being the face of the 2nd amendment period, they're just rediculous and always respond to any national tragedy with massive amounts of untrue scaremongering
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  184. 100 in the sun, 120 in the shade, 40 in Finland, no problems
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  185.  @Locutus494  its not like it couldn't have been prototyped in metal first, actually in metal this gun is probably a lot more reliable as the bolt has some heft to it
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  186. "its steampunk" does it have gears? "here's the gear in the reciever...and the gear in the loader" its steampunk alright
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  187. "Oh yes, this is a mark 1 - ** # 308 rebarrelled, marked by 4 different armories meaning.... I have no clue actually."
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  188. it looks like a g3 rifle if you told someone to build it from memory
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  189. bigger deal when 9x19 and 7.63 will both chamber but only one will work without exploding the gun
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  190.  @ScottKenny1978  he doesn't own this gun, its a review gun, he has to give it back at some point I think
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  191.  @monkeylee4818  no, north Elbonia was the People's Democratic Republic of Elbonia, east Elbonia was the Democratic People's Republic of Elbonia, very different groups especially after the sino-soviet split, the PDRE went for Chinese arms while the DPRE stayed soviet
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  192. if we had only bombed the factory that made the wapinoff stamp, the germans would not have been able to use anything
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  193. James Healy like most of the problems with those guns were things not entirely related to the gun, belts and the delinker/feed system are usually most of the problem. also going into ww1 nobody expected to have to cycle hundreds of thousands of rounds through any single gun
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  194. but 30s gangsters could come machinegunning down your door
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  195. that and just using a lathe to make a better lathe then using the better lathe to make a better lathe to make a better lathe to make a better lathe till you get a CNC machine
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  196. fact that these things work like revolvers is probably partially why they didn't catch on that much, revolvers were cheap (by this point) and offered basically the same performance
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  197. yes, I suppose even the soviets realized they might want a safety on this cannon
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  198. thing looks like its been sitting in a pile of mud for most of the last 100 years
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  199. I can really see why this failed hard. in a setting where nobody has guns, sure it works, but in the US where you could buy guns through catalogues back then, ya this was just sub par
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  200.  @nonomnismoriar9601  the ENIAC would like to beep angrily at you
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  201. Down with colonialism, Elbonia forever! also terrible small arms
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  202.  @rockbutcher  my uncle worked on helicopters in the vietnam era, even if he did have hearing protection, he probably didn't wear it. he's deaf as a rock worked with another vietnam vet who was on a destroyer and had a lot of hearing loss as well
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  203. factory managers aren't exactly in ivory towers under a fascist government
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  204.  @Dead_Pool_Rising  they had a corbray street sweeper in the one sequence where replicators took over the mountain, its funny because he had a chance to rid the world of one more of those by throwing it at them
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  205.  Shoudday Cha  pretty sure following the rules is exactly what the ATF wants
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  206. i mean its also esoteric german machining at its best too. Every subtle change in the machining has seemingly been meticulously documented by collectors and assigned a group
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  207. germany circa early panzershrek: no faceplate needed!
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  208. depends if its a door you're trying to stop
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  209. recently they purchased several large drones, upon arrival the airforce was suprised to find in the crates, several large sheets of craft paper and nothing else
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  210.  @Reactordrone  how to nazi proof your magazine? use SAE measurements.
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  211. seems a bit disingenuous, the technology was purposfully killed to prevent any actual development that might have made it reliable. these arguments about failure are almost exactly the same arguments m14 salesmen had about the ar15, or the bolt action guys had about self loading rifles, or the black powder guys had about bolt actions. this could have been developed into something but never got past the technology demonstrator. this is 2005 technology, we have much smaller much more robust electronics today that could make this work given time
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  212. @Semechki for Putin  there's probably been more than a few made of just burning spirits, its still effective
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  213.  @MarvinCZ  na the US is right behind germany with our love of paperwork, the scale of the war time government is like on par with the size of the government today. The Pentagon back then didn't have enough office space
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  214. probably a sync issue, just like if you pointed a camera at a propeller
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  215.  @wierdalien1  open bolt semi auto makes sense as a cheap self loading carbine but that's where they ran out of sense
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  216. Very interesting fight, Browning was by far probably a better gunsmith, but Maxim was an incredibly clever guy too since he did build a black powder machinegun
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  217. "sir, the uh pistols are uh almost ready to go, just need your signature." "hmmm..." "hey guys, colt's making a .22lr conversion for these pistols, isn't that neat?"
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  218.  @genericpersonx333  yes its all well and good to follow the system but what's easier to sell to congress, an m11a1 or a brand new m12!
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  219. the memes continue
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  220. Haven't you shown before though that the m1's magazine wasn't unreliable as much as it was semi-disposable
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  221.  @joshkamp7499  problem is these systems tended not to work all that well, and paradoxically had too much capacity so it was near impossible to reload it expediently
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  222. glass reinforced nylon, golden annodized aluminum, futuristic plastic metal construction, very squeeky spring...
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  223. Sean Henry to be fair, everybody's always after their picklehabs so they're justified
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  224. more like the David Koch of the day. I fail to see how pro democracy outreach by soros is similar to a private individual conspiring to create a war between two countries
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  225. could have been a compensator-to-be but not actually drilles depending on how finished this prototype was
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  226. ah yes, desert camo, quite useful for the hinterlands of Ukraine
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  227.  @unhippy1  the sa80 was margret thatcher corrution and privatization of government companies.
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  228. before they used p90s they used mp5s and a handful of m16s, and the odd streetsweeper (for some reason)
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  229. nothing worse than going to stab a guy and your bayonet flops down
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  230. that is exactly what this series is. he's done a similar video on several other common methods of action
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  231.  @loquat4440  hope you like your global economy because saying "Fuck europe" would very quickly fuck us in the states given that europe is a good third of the global economy also NATO pays a hell of a lot more than certain politicians insist they do, like free land practically wherever we want in europe for military use
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  232. this thing probably falls under SBR rules, but putting a bigger barrel on it probably wouldn't kill it
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  233. Scooby Doo and the mystery of the self-loading rifle, It was old man browning all along!
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  234. TheGoldenCaulk these guns weren't exactly expected to last the 10-20, let alone the 50 years guns in most arsenals have to endure. Stamped guns are really just a piece of wartime production, plus germans used really thin steel which made the guns subceptable to all sorts of stress problems
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  235. I'm not sure design and manufacture cost all that much, these were just cobbled together, and from spares no less
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  236. Stereotypical French Laughter
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  237. just funny how back then you could be a doctor and run a munitions factory
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  238. "That's nota cartridge, THIS is a cartridge!"
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  239. cavalry were some of the last guys to be galloping around in armor too
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  240. Thomas Schreiber he's crated up and shipped between auction houses
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  241. ​ @rubiconnn  the military always buys a custom loading for all its ammunition, its not just for grift, they have to know what their bullets are going to do
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  242. chauchat(s)
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  243. Next Week... "And this looks like an M1 Bazooka but actually there's a Stemple in there!"
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  244. stuff and sometimes the odd vampire
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  245.  @johnanon6938  you can't even carry on 20 lbs of luggage today irregardless of its lethality
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  246. more like engineered pipe guns. The devs for Fallout 4 should have taken some note
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  247. s = safe, e = bullet d = all the bullets to translate to modern hk parlance
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  248. that or just pure shnadenfreud with the army insisting these are the guns he was sent to purchase, not those mausers
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  249.  @P943044S  that's kinda the point the mark 2 was "Oh god we only have the plumbers left!" gun
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  250. its failings are made worse because US ordinance boards wouldn't even look at a FAL unless it was 7.62, so they changed the FAL to fire the bigger round to get the US on board and then we didn't even do that. The FAL could have been in a modern caliber as adopted but the m14 screwed that up too
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  251. or an outrageous french accent!
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  252. they made these with tons of jigs and fixtures but still its crazy what people were able to machine back then
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  253.  @lairdcummings9092  I think Ian has said the ww2 thomsons were harder shooting than some of the other variants given the changes made to it
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  254. no, spain didn't recognize international copyright just national copyright so you could just make copies of anything in spain, now selling those things elsewhere was where people would have gotten in trouble
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  255. 1930s hardware stores were WILD
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  256. ​ @fr4ct1v09 probably not a great idea to have completely unregulated firearms, the issue is the closure of the machinegun registry, that was done by the hughes amendment
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  257. think Ian did a thing a while back where he had pistols that basically were put together by occupied factories just for the GIs that occupied it to take home
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  258. probably less glamorous than you think. they likely bought it in the 1990s
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  259. right, there's no way you're using half of those
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  260.  @sullivanrachael  ya I think the problem with dramatic changes was that you'd have to get plans, jigs, samples, and gauges out to the factories as well as any new equipment and training each time you wanted to do a dramatic modification like that
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  261. PanzerKatze oh he knows about the gun, just not the who where and why
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  262. wow ian has come a long way, especially camera work
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  263. seems like the 1911 would have been a terrible gun to copy as a cheap weapon.
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  264. 12:49 Naughty: Elbonian small arms
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  265. "Look mein fuher I have a weapon that will win the war for good! now If I can have 600 tons of tungsten, 50,000 tons of copper, 4 million liters of gasoline...
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  266. seems like he was trying to work around black powder fouling but then smokeless came around
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  267. there was a lot of german smgs being used by tankers, though I read an anicdote that one tried equipping an mg40 and almost got shot up by friendly troops out of instinct so ditched that
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  268. seems like the problem was more there were specifically bad revolving rifles (some ian has featured!) that gave the whole class a bad name. there is legitimate concern about how to hold it though, but that's more drill and training
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  269. ​ @nigelmchugh5541  idk the belgians seem to know have a pretty good idea of how to make guns
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  270. gotta love the spite that went into these. I love the look of tubular pistols all around
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  271. its like they looked at this thing and said "Nein, it must have more machining time!" so they made the threads finer and longer
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  272. An example of when someone patent scummed so hard they actually screwed themselves
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  273. al the buffer is clearly not working all that much and the bolt is maintaining a lot of inertia and is bouncing off the back of the receiver instead of coming neatly to a stop and being brought forward by the spring. So the thing speeds up as it goes along
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  274. can't be the worst gun there because I'm pretty sure Karl brought a worse gun which literally can't hit anything
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  275. more likely someone has one in a collection and has the money and time to write the ATF a nasty letter. like Ian said, nobody is really sure how many exist
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  276.  @natedunlop1631  there has been some machine guns focused on ultra high fire rate that tried that. The issue is as always, what to do with the excess heat you're normally dumping out the barrel with a case, and is it really worth it.
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  277. italy, always 10 years early to every war and 10 years out of date when it happens
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  278. sadly he parted ways with his vickers a few years back
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  279. it was really really hard to just march from nowhere to nowhere and fight an entire battle. Sherman's march is about as far as Napoleon's march to moscow and these guys were just walking through woods and fields
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  280. ​ @mrmors1344  my guess is they'll br going to ukraine which is sort of ironic
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  281.  @milamber319  ball bearings can be accurately made and sorted using fairly simple machinery
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  282. "FIRING!" doink "RELOAD RELOAD RELOAD!"
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  283. tbf, when isn't there an ammunition shortage
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  284. the only issue, and its more of a really old gun issue, is that nickel finish eventually fades really bad
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  285. its really well made for a one-off though
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  286. the M1 kind of makes sense, there's still some svt's kicking around, so the m1 is just a bit older
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  287. "Went into germany" with guns blazing
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  288. idk, jmb was more of a mechanics guy, he left the manufacturability to his partners. He'd certainly be messing around with a lot of different locking mechanisms and using high speed cameras
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  289. Seems like a funny counter to Han's C96 based blaster.
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  290. "Wave of nationalism" doesn't do it credit. this looks like a great book though especially with just how many examples of bizarre organizational swords you cited
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  291. pluto is not a pistol
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  292. oooh its not good to hide stuff on discovery it usually doesn't end well
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  293. still surprises me that nobody thought of plywood furniture except the germans who had no real choice.
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  294. probably somehow, those armored russian trains from the pre-revolution era. their ministers may be corrupt but they're amazing at obtaining what they want.
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  295. Something about this particular example of this gun being outdated when it was new seems totally relevant today still
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  296.  @barttorbert5031  the problems are not intuitive and often are just bizarre like a tiny sliver of metal being the difference between full function or garbage
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  297. concept yes, but there's been concepts for nuclear powered cars, both wouldn't get past any sort of practical design phase. There's a more realistic concept of requiring an officer to wear a ring with the rf tag in it, and people who opposed even that said what if the person uses the officer's hand to shoot him, which is like....again beyond what you could ever design around
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  298. stoner was right in at the death-knell of the old arsenal system
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  299. OvertravelX don't forget to make it a simple blowback regardless of the caliber. .45 blowback? no problem!
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  300. they would probably have used fairly minimal amounts of machining to do this but you would be hard pressed to see any sort of differences between old machining and older machining they didn't blue it either
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  301. its perfect for the discerning crowbar wielding theoretical physicist
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  302. ya but also the brits were persistently 40 years behind the time with .303
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  303. one can imagine the wonder on the GI's face when they found a german pistol that fired a real cartridge.
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  304. ​ @jamesbridges7750  my favorite is firing the rail cops then complaining to the regular cops about theft as if they expect regular cops to go onto rail property and patrol around all these rather dangerous moving vehicles
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  305. goes to fire, mag drops instead lfmao
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  306. its 1940, switzerland is not exactly in a position to be exporting much of anything
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  307. 360 degrees, to shoot the enemy, and cowards alike
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  308. "You're going to use what?"
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  309. there's just something absolutely silly about a semiautomatic rifle with 100 rounds on tap. it just goes and goes and goes and goes
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  310. "Yes Mr. Ross, jolly good show but you see you are canadian and not sufficiently british british so therefore we cannot accept this rifle and ammunition. Good day." -Some British Lord in charge of Ordinance
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  311. usually also the most spectacular bankruptcies
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  312. and ironically killed in its day because of a stupid requirement for an exposed barrel
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  313. cas its got a red dot sight, that makes it more accurate
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  314.  @itatane  the wear ian talked about is something you can't reproduce from machining and manufacturing. springs are exceedingly expensive to make in anything but coils or flats, but this just shows that any of these guns won't get worse with age
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  315. I think he did a larger video on stens a while back but there was the "last ditch" sten, the "not quite last ditch" sten and the "well we're not being bombed every night so we can put some more thought into it" sten
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  316.  @tjroelsma  in fallout new vegas the 12.7mm pistol is basically a large version of this, it even has the same barrel nut
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  317. ya its called spec-ops
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  318. without knowing it I would think someone painted that gun due to the very dull nickel plating
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  319. the jump between consumer and commercial 3d printers is huge, even as both are getting better and better in capacity
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  320.  @meckhardt2112  na, 8mm mauser would be too standard, 10mm wauser is more like it.
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  321. hard mode: its the .30-06 version
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  322. as far as safeties go it looks actually like one of the better early smg safeties
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  323. he's done some videos but vintage ammo is even harder to find than weapons
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  324. its the smg before anyone knew they wanted an smg
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  325. Paul K french arsenal made so non-commercial to begin with
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  326. the swiss tried to make a gun cheaper? gasp
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  327. B they're still used for swat or urban assault situations where overpenetration and size are cons, and theyve been used by special protection services like the secret service because you can easily conceal them and they can lay down a lot of suppressive fire which is good in their case
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  328. I wasn't so interested in the other books but this one looks amazing
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  329. in more ways than one, today everybody wants the AR to do everything and everything to look like an AR, colt was just 40 years ahead of the curve
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  330. talking to a camera while talking with a guy next to you is awkward especially since they can't turn to see each other
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  331. Robert Kelley the striker might not work. its designed for the much more sensative percussion caps and it looks quite broad too. I'd say if you weren't opposed to modifying the striker or replacing it with one it might work, but the extractor might also have a problem too
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  332.  @osmacar  maybe just maybe the group you coincidentally don't agree with isn't to blame for the shit happening in the country or world. maybe those leftists are making a stink because they actually have a legitimate reason, maybe they shouldn't be dismissed, scapegoated, and given nothing but disdain especially when the other side constantly drones on about stopping tyranny, the kind the leftist liberals are seething mad about.
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  333.  @L3GN5RW9  sure, ideas like the superiority of the white race and the need to fight the scourge of international liberalism You can have an open exchange of ideas and have content moderation
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  334. real wonder what the US civil war would have been like with these. sticking to mostly rifled muzzle loaders was a deliberate choice
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  335. ya 1938 wasn't gonna be a great year to startup production in Czechoslovakia
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  336.  @archetypalculinarian  they only built like a few thousand of them and they're crazy complicated
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  337. ​ @Ass_of_Amalek  10 years ago you had coalition forces so the region was a bit less volatile
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  338. "There's only one man who carries a walther ppk, his name is james bond" "What about all the german police that use them?" "wait is that true?" "Well you didn't really think walther just made the one pistol did you? I mean you're the head of SPECTRE after all." "Right right..."
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  339. no because none of the parts quite fit
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  340. "Thats for another video when i can get my hands on an AMD" even Ian can't get the new ryzen processors and cards
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  341. TheGoldenCaulk its worth enough that the insurance comoany tracked it down
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  342. they had to get the guy out of the village somehow, it was an obvious transition
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  343. For when "We wanna join NATO" But "The AK is all we know."
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  344.  @simplymadness8849  ya I can see how it might be considered acceptable since the barrel, locking block and bolt assemlbly comes out as one piece and the recoil spring is self contained
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  345.  @Riceball01  tbf the way troops were trained and drilled back then did cause large amounts of wasted ammo when under pressure. at the battle of The Rosebud (the prequel to Little Bighorn) the american troops acting on instinct dumped ammo on the ground in front of them in anticipation of rapid fire only to have to leave that ammo behind due to rapidly being routed. they 'used' something like 25,000 rounds of ammunition for a few dozen dead on both sides. the native americans found piles of ammunition at the defensive positions after the army's retreat. Though that's all the fault of the generals designing the drill and training so its still on them not the troops doing what they were trained to do
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  346. the decadent west, and not-quite-as-glorious soviets were always taking credit for the gifts the Kim Dynasty (may they rule eternal) gave to the world.
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  347. its the SUV of rifles, all the look none of the power.
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  348. 10mm in general sounds like the up and coming cartridge that they would standardize on
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  349. they had a lot of advanced warning considering the italians almost lost albania to a bunch of hungry, unarmed greeks who pushed them all the way back nearly to the adriatic. Mr. Hitler invaded greece out of spite because he was so mad at the italians
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  350. but at the same time you're loosing a lot of the benefits of a mounted gun in that you can fire a heavier round and not care because there's no recoil and that heavier round can do more than just anti personnel
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  351. When your fancy gun is more important than your hand, wouldn't want to see what would happen if this thing chain fired
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  352. or a French model 1920 Brick, to compliment his french rock video
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  353. that or in the US, a small shitty car that could blow up on you
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  354. the point is to avoid having to design manufacutre and maintain a separate set of rifles
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  355. Ian must have found a guy who really liked enfields
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  356.  @meowfaceification  that could absolutely be the case, someone proficient built it first, THEN joe dirt decided they wanted to take a crack at 'improving' it down the line, still there's also enough work there that indicates it was built the first time
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  357. its cool when you find these weird one offs, even cooler when you do get the exact story
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  358. its a novel solution because these rounds are so much larger than a normal bullet so you kind of have to have use the larger force of the recoil system
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  359. its not like they had polycarb safety glasses back then
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  360. 14:50 oh that's actually pretty cool to be able to cycle this reliably with .38 special
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  361. its the cartridges themselves that had issues, some guns had multiple firing pins for rimfite cartridges but you could also unload, rotate and reload the cartridge
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  362. a great gun for fallout's left handed universe.
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  363. how the hell did hollywood get a hold of a bunch of these if they only made 200ish, I've seen this in movies and TV somewhere maybe they were ksg's
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  364. the halo Battle Rifle is fairly clearly modeled on it though
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  365. @Curt Howland  My thoughts on it have always been even though the romans proto-industrialized, there wasn't something that made industrialization particularly attractive until you get cannons and guns, then whoever has the most of those started winning wars taking money and resources driving more fighting
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  366. it is funny how complicated even the simplified Thompson is for being just an open bolt simple blowback gun
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  367. this isn't very pragmatic, a pragmatic design would just be a rifle grenade kit for the normal guns compromising on the range and rate of fire, not taking a normal gun and making it incapable of being used as an infantry weapon.
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  368. "And they economised and simplified the production of the Luger" are we talking about the same swiss here?
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  369. I think the point of these guns is to fire a lot of small caliber bullets in approximately a circle, whereas anything bigger would run the risk of rupturing or being too heavy to handle
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  370. 4 bergmans, 3 chassepots, a hungarian lewis gun, a czeck... oh you're just gonna take the sig saur.
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  371.  @LOUDcarBOMB  you don't pay those guys that little
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  372. "Its unusual, the cylinder flips out to the right, most revolvers flip out to the left." The French copy nobody, and nobody copies the french
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  373. "Mom I want a magazine cutoff" "We have one at home" Magazine Cutoff at home:
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  374.  @thegreenman2030  I wasn't saying ultreon was alt right just that there's a tendency for people to abuse other platforms and turn them into toxic swanps
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  375. Harvey baker the american spelling comes from Charles Hall who invented a process for refining pure metal in Oberlin Ohio, then when a similar method was invented by a few other people independently he quickly jumped on the market to manufacture it before the metal price crashed. while his patents were correctly spelled, he marketed aluminum without the extra I for reasons we will never quite understand. Alcoa becoming a juggernaut in the US, our version stuck.
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  376. its like a czeck glock in 45.
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  377. its where roller delayed is headed, neat, does what its supposed to do, but there's other simpler to manufacture ways to do it. only like H&K still keep up roller delay systems and they're moving away from that to traditional locking lugs
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  378. ah nothing more useless than volley sights on a naval rifle
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  379. hes checking the mount though not the optic
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  380. "And they don't shut them down, they take delivery of the guns themselves" 😂😂 once again capitalism defeats the forces of communism through the power of money!
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  381. the cornershot of ww2. not that cornershot is all that useful itself
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  382. could just be they had 10" Tokarev barrel blanks and that's what they used
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  383. and did what the m14 also did, cost a fortune to make
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  384. this is like 65 years before someone got the idea to standardize screws
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  385. slowpokebr549 how does the breech stay closed and or how does one prevent an out of battery fire? this looks like it could get loose and not lock up quite right
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  386.  @Ojthemighty  more like saying a knife and a sword are interchangeable since there's been small swords and very large knives. The distinction between the two is quite new as pointed out by ian, especially when there were rifles designed with detachable magazines, but issued ammo in clips
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  387.  @noecarrier5035  and germany be like "Lol, lets bring a bigger gun!" and thus they did
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  388. district 9 discovered a way to make any gun look cool by painting it with stripes, and white paint
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  389.  @thomas316  There's this guy that wanted to buy Greenland for No Good Reason, and hold its glaciers hostage to US environmental laws (or lack there of) so 'liberating' iceland isn't that out of question given that same person is in need of a war to bolster their support
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  390. absolutely amazing that thing looks factory fresh 100+ years old
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  391. HE'S GONNA FINISH SOMEDAY!
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  392. @Andreas Müller  its not really about crimes anyways, they don't have malls, bars, and just about everywhere else shot up all the time by disgruntled people
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  393. not many guns that you can say have a minimum range, then you find this guy
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  394. the side latches would make me more confident in picking the thing up without those bottom latches popping off and dumping the whole thing. the secret service case makes a lot more sense than the other two for actual use, while the other 2 feel like they go on a shelf, then the back of a car then back on a shelf
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  395. MCM has such a cool Fallout Brotherhood of Steel logo
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  396. 13:27 I hate it and love it
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  397. ​ @r.b.rozier9692 bigger navy than britain...
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  398. Calico: He shot more than 200 rounds without a mechanical failure, WE MUST EXAMINE THESE GUNS
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  399. the SMLE, the gun that defended the Empire and all her shores
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  400. ​ @AshleyPomeroy single stack magazinrs were preferred when stuff like thr 1911 was developed to keep it thin
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  401. musta been great, getting paid to just shoot guns, talk to arms manufacturers, and presumably dictate reports to a secretary to send back to your command
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  402. that first one looks so good from a distance and so crusty up close
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  403. iterative design, they went from pouches and paper cartridges to cardboard tubes to brass/plastic
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  404. I suspect the problem would be getting reliable belts considering how the originals weren't all that consistent
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  405. got to have been in a movie or tv show before that as an armorer's piece
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  406. this thing seems a little too eager to dump its guts out the back. you rotated 1 pin and loosened 1 cap and the guts just shot right out
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  407. seems like the only sane thing to do with a gun that dangerous
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  408. TheGoldenCaulk it doesn't sound like its a pretty rare gun like some of his finds, just a dumb gun
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  409. "They bought a bunch of submarines that also came with lugers." thats some black humot about handguns being standard equipment on early submarines
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  410.  @wolschou  not that silly but customizable light combos would be very easy
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  411. seems like .30 carbine was a good bullet for an interum assault rifle before you work out something like 5.56
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  412. for the fins to scrap a gun it must have been absolutely destroyed
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  413. this thing almost looks like you could shoulder it, if you were arnold shwartzenegger I suppose
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  414. that's loosely a theme of this channel I suppose. Forgotten quite often means terrible, (but not always)
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  415. hey now, I hear their minister managed to 'procure' several dozen K-class blimps from the US for their airforce
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  416. the 1994 awb was a dumb definition, but people shouting there's no such thing as assault rifles have been equally as dumb
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  417. the marines breaking the army's stuff is too funny
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  418. they use lasers to burn channels in, I've handled enough of them at a job recycling aircraft scrap. pure cobalt parts are insane, they're like as tough as titanium and lighter than aluminum
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  419. I can't imagine being given a black powder rifle when your enemies have sub machineguns and flamethrowers coming at you
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  420. in the late 1800s it was function over form, get the autoloading bit right, then worry about simplification. Problem was that when someone did simplify something everybody tended to adopt that and dump the big clunky stuff
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  421. probably one of the most complete and thorough conversions ian has ever covered
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  422. been a while since Ian sent parts flying on camera
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  423. Luxembourg, otherwise known as that speedbump between france and germany
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  424. but think of all the ammunition they'd waste if they can fire so fast
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  425. series
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  426. idk, if anything was gonna do it, it would have been lever guns and nobody ever made a top feed lever gun
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  427. one would wonder why it took several more decades or development for them to just issue troops with small shovels instead.
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  428. "what does this gun do that is better?" it is the most precisely machined handgun in the world
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  429. NateLB that's only because every hollywood movie ever misuses the spas-12 (possibly intentionally though) because I've never seen a movie where its used semiauto or where the stock has been deployed, and this carries over into videogames
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  430. Jagdwurst 88 no wonder they lost the war, too much wasted paint on lettering and took too long on their paperwork
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  431. it doesn't look all that fun to shoot though
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  432.  Lassi Kinnunen  from video yesterday the bolt looked compression or transfer molded as it had some sort of random fill in it.
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  433. For some reason they lost a large chunk of Lee's at the beginning of ww2, so they were fortunate to have the opportunity to rearm with a modern lee enfield for a modern war
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  434.  @iwanttocry3212  no because the british probably knew it was all happening
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  435. bolt action conversions like revolving rifles, seem to on paper be an obvious relatively easy thing to do, but turn out to be completely unworkable
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  436. time period is going to be a hard one to pin down, its gonna be any one of several years during ww1 when the officer programs were flooded with recruits anyways so records are gonna be fuzzy. really this is like antique furniture, unless you can absolutely prove with paperwork its always going to be up to the veracity of the experts to claim authenticity
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  437. the sks being a scaled down version of an antimaterial rifle is funny, usually its the opposite
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  438.  @brokenspine66  um no the USSR had plans, just like the US has plans to invade and annex canada, the point was we needed to make it not beneficial for them to carry out those plans
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  439. the magazine thing probably makes sense since its 1903 and everybody has clips with internal magazines, which was what he probably though since you're translating german to dutch with a technical term that's relatively new
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  440. "Is that a live round? "another, that can't be good." clearly that is an early method for preventing soldiers from wasting ammunition by dumping some perfectly good ammunition out of the magazine so they have a few rounds left over yes that is the case, not that its a poorly designed italian firearm
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  441. water, carbon, pretty similar.
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  442. How neutral do you have to be to buy 50,000 guns from germany in 1941
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  443. what a lovely fluted barrel it has
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  444. I swear the allies missed destroying the german tool stamp factories, they couldn't possibly produce anything without having a serial number on nearly every part
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  445. given the curve you're probably not going to use this for anything other than shot
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  446. idk I thought Colt was rather infamous for doing drugs
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  447. ironically what you described with showrooming is exactly what the computer stores like microcenter deals with, If I take up a guy's time for 25 minutes I try to at least buy something to help him get a commission even if he's talked me out of the thing I came for
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  448. its funny, this is basically a smartphone crammed around a gun
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  449. its a very important and interesting turn of events that gunpowder seemed to just spring into the historical record in europe without any sort of origin other than the chinese story
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  450. shocking the lindsey musket is untouched when it had that tendency to blow up easily...
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  451.  @sbsanan95  Ian has shown off at least one other gun where the locking was activated by your own grip strength, but none this new. like what the heck was this guy thinking, by the 1970s this was stupid
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  452.  @patrickglaser1560  my brother's favorite ticket "Computer not working" after said person unplugged its ethernet cord for the 5th straight day
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  453. TheGoldenCaulk so much wood, so much fragile wood...
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  454. should have been "Forgotten Frenchies"
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  455. sadly i think he said his two gun range doesn't do machineguns
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  456. In Russia, weapon forgotten you!
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  457. probably more than a few soldiers and generals enjoying the white powder back then
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  458. it sounds impressive till you bring up how few they actually used in total
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  459.  @browncoat697  just waiting for putin to push the button and all the flags and stars fall down to be replaced by the soviet flag and hammer/sickle at this point. plus its talking about a gun designed before the ussr collapsed but only built really after it died
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  460. He's got as much training on t62 as most russians now
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  461. Another question to the first one, where do we go from here? Today it seems like everybody has exactly what they want, guns are rapid fire, extremely reliable, historically light weight, and can be exactly as lethal as the user wants. Sure caseless is a general direction but that adds several layers of complexity itself but rate of fire isnt really an issue and the weight of weapons and ammo are not where soldiers are putting on weight these days.
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  462.  @kaiserruhsam  no the correct answer is to side of the bolt
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  463. ​ @richardlahan7068 I think grease was a modern technique not something done at the time since well they basically didn't have greases
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  464. Tursi they had this whole 100 year plan to integrate serbia and the other balkin states into the austro-hungarian empire that did not work one bit
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  465. well bureau of prisons, basically
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  466. well that or issued to desk warriors. Ian's covered it somewhat before but a lot of people who didn't really need a gun still got guns because it was THE accessory to have if you were a real fashionable nazi
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  467. kind of makes the british stuff look well engineered
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  468. Ohlourdes Padua there is a benefit to partial machining, those stamped ww2 guns just didn't last which is fine in a war but not great for police or armories that expect them to last
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  469. its got a recoil compensator cut but maybe its not doing enough
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  470. Bunkyboy 91 no because the rim locks against the barrel and brass itself expands and stays expanded until it cools whereas this polymer case probably wasn't very intact when it exited the front of the chamber
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  471. 'swiss' as in designed, tooled by and produced for Germans disguised as swiss
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  472. man this thing is just toolroom enough that someone ought to be able to make a working replica
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  473. ah yes the era of Britain First, which nobody would ever copy ever anywhere else nearly word for word....
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  474. the late 1800s were a wild time to be in the market for firearms, you had a not zero chance of buying a 'new' gun that was made of 50 year old parts or a gun that was made before the civil war and sat in a warehouse
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  475. buy 800,000 for the US army.
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  476. I think Johnson probably designed it that way on purpose which added complexity but let him easily sell to other countries
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  477. Ian sends it to Lockpicking Lawyer "Click on one..."
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  478. I always thought one of the biggest problems of stocked pistols is the stock is significantly bulkier than the pistol, or even an SMG which is kinda what a carbine or ppc serves
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  479. probably tens to hundreds of thousands of them around
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  480. kind of a side side note, the SR-71 was supposed to be the RS-71 but johnson flubbed the announcement, and everybody just penciled over the old name
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  481. quite possibly these were failed barrels, thus saving time and materials by repurposing them to blank firing boyscout guns, also fascist europe didn't seem to grasp its own mortality very well.
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  482. kind of amazing its 1945 and someone was making a gun not intended for military use
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  483. dang a c96 with a luger grip looks pretty fly. I kind of want to see this actually as a c96/luger
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  484. such a well designed pistol even though its got that goofy long barrel.
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  485. @super duper that sounds like a very poor design, there should be a way to vent pressure behind the pellet if the projectile gets stuck
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  486. the HK53: for when you want an mp5 in 5.56
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  487. could also be that this soldier or whoever couldn't handle a full length rifle either kind of like how the south vietnamese couldn't handle full length M1s and M14s due to them being of shorter build
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  488. that thing is terrifying even from a modern perspective
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  489. woulda been the slickest operator in the 1980s
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  490. swiss, so busy not fighting wars to think about every little detail to put in their guns
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  491. Dutch Broomhandle Schmeisser, really neat.
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  492. its interesting how these guns get less and less locked up as they evolved. the common complaint about these for military use was that you could get junk in the action when you open the lever but the earlier guns were pretty sealed up, only the 1890s guns started to have lots of room open up when you cycled it
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  493. you see ivan, in soviet union we use film can for ammunition holder
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  494. seems like someone put their 190- trials collection up for auction
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  495. i giggle at the idea of a pistol that takes an unplanned stripper clip dump out the bottom as you stuff another one in
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  496. neat, someone ought to write a book on guns like this (sure you've heard this one a million times)
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  497. ​ @neutronalchemist3241 might have helped its chances a little
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  498. down hill skiing and shooting
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  499. "Life finds a way..."
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  500. "they also made one for use with luger mags" man, 9mm took a long time to get past the luger
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  501. ​ @dexexmachinatu4151 that or its just a regular m3 in 9mm because game mechanics. hard to tell because they did similar weird stuff for Fallout 4
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  502. wtf were they thinking with those paperclip springs? did they give the job designing the trigger mechanism to an intern who made a model out of office supplies and someone mistook it for the finished product?
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  503. thumb "Hole" when its completely hollow
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  504. this is like one of those chinese puzzle boxes where you have to twist, turn, rotate, and pull at pieces to get it to open
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  505. Ian is confused as to the function of the water jacket, it was for making pasta in the field, much like the vickers was for making hot tea for brits
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  506. crazy how close some of these rifles were to the US Civil War. like anything getting pushed up 5-10 years and at least one side would have been nearly fully equipped with cartridged black powder breach loading guns
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  507. TheIdahoanShow ya with a fixed firing pin it does look like its just a full auto conversion with no real way to stop. they were probably well aware of that and probably only used a couple rounds at a time if that, proof of concept really.
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  508. very crude looking gun but its 1866 and screws won't even be standardized for another 20 years
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  509. I know its lethal from a technical stance, but I swear if I ever had to use 25 auto on someone it'd just piss them off
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  510. you know, if I owned this I'd dress it up as a mini cannon and get a carriage to mount it on
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  511. evolutionary vs revolutionary. The mauser 98 was pretty well established by then and had already fixed a lot of issues by the time this boy came around
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  512. Dirty Harry needed one of these over an automag
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  513. its funny how a lot of the ww2 specific stuff is just Winchester did things slightly better
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  514. smgs are generally using pistol calibers to avoid overpenetration, and are lighter, whereas other than this guy, most sbrs are heavier and larger firing rifle calibers
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  515. if you did this with a custom reciever it wouldn't be a problem, you'd just make it with the fc upside down
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  516. tbf poland has been carrying a lot of water for Putin until now, and have been running on the same authoritarian brand that putin espouses
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  517. Seems like this in concept is great but since its basically no better than a revolver, it isn't really worth it when everybody and their mothers had revolvers at that time
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  518. "CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF COLONIALISM AND MY BROWN-BESS!"
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  519. For when you want the maxim to be even more complicated
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  520. I love how you subconciously tried to rack the slide before firing it
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  521. How TF did this thing survive 2 world wars
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  522. "I promise its exactly like I'm carrying a weird french pistol!"
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  523. gimme one in .45 acp, I'm a masacist
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  524. is that second one a police gun or guard gun given the heal release and extra serial numbers
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  525. hypothetically anyways
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  526. That thing could stop a mid century buick at 100 yards!
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  527. "its 1mm short" someone forgot to check their gauges
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  528. thank goodness its pro dynamic rather than anti-dynamic
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  529. probably the most soviet shotgun ever, even more soviet than the cut down AA barreled riot shotgun
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  530. superficially looks like 6.5 carcano with how much of the bullet is forward of the case
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  531. not sure I'd want either chrome or nickel in the desert
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  532. didn't happen at the range but my dad loves to just shout at people to do something then never follow up. He assumed my 12 year old brother cleared his shotgun. It blew a nice chunk of the wall out when my dad went to go clean it, thank god he wasn't pointing it at anything. To this day I don't know what the ever living fuck he was thinking, I love my brother but he's lost his wallet in his own pocket before. My dad patched the hole and never spoke about it ever again.
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  533. Derek S nope, he's got a video on a Wouser already.
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  534. so does this italian gun pretending to be french attract italian gun collectors looking for italian guns, or french gun collectors looking for french guns
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  535. man this thing looks like someone scoured it with a wire brush
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  536. if they made james bond movies back when this was more common, this would absolutely have been something the bad guys would have been using, skiing down a mountain after him
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  537. what were they thinking with that sight, its just begging to get broken off
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  538. oh boy, this is a big topic
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  539. and this is why the ar is such a pain in the ass to classify when the nfa hasn't been updated in 70 years because of the upper/lower construction
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  540. This officer must have been chumming it up with the Elbonian arms officer at the same time. A nagant revolver in .44 winchester is perfectly up their alley
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  541. yo I think you got some shotgun in that wood
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  542. technically at least the 60s if you consider nobody really wanted the m16 either
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  543. czechoslovakian james bond
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  544.  @SomeGuy-vo7we  ya but it doesn't reliably kill/vaporize, i mean like only 4 people ever got killed by those things
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  545. there's probably a situation for this but I cam't think of it. They still sell them though so they must be useful still.
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  546. these guys also have a lot of duplicates that could be split off too
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  547. look if you have the double 1911, you have to have the double ar-15
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  548. Bonzi Buddy he's addressed this before, spain at that time did not believe in international copyright law, therefore if you had some capital and some detailed plans... you could get away with anything
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  549. I can almost justify this if you planned on at a slightly later time parting the officers from their outrageous swords, like "Well you got a stabby thing on your gun, why do you need a saber now?"
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  550. for once the USSR had a gun just in time for the thing they're building it to fight
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  551. Some say Elbonia has a large surplus stockpile of these things just waiting for someone to buy them up
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  552. the swiss would give out a pocket watch wouldn't they
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  553. there's been pistols like that where it only partially ejects the magazine
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  554. think ATF is bad, my one site had a Smithers NADCAP auditor almost strike my site's license to manufacture aviation parts because the door said ISO 9000-2004 when we were ISO 9000-2014, though he had found a single glaring issue by being so hard as well.
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  555. Rrolf hey that actually sounds immensely practical, rotate the bolt inserts the screw, pull trigger it springs back
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  556.  @0Turbox  the g43 was germany's self loading rifle, but they had about a bajillion k98's plus military leaders were brickheads to think faster rate of fire was bad when the same arguments were leveled about bolt action rifles
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  557. 25:29 The only time this comes to mind is if someone had like 3 prototypes of a specific model but even then that's fairly rare
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  558. titanium really is nuts, its half the weight but the same or greater hardness of a comparable steel
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  559. a lot more were destroyed by cutting them down to fit the newer military styles of officer swords, like Ian mentioned
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  560. presumably being officer kit, it probably came in its own leather pouch
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  561. ah the main camo pattern of elbonia
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  562. kind of interesting that the nra won't touch the import ban good job on uzi though for not letting someone's greed beat him
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  563. Ian's 3 steps to success in ww1 (for france) Step 1: Buy the hotchkiss machinegun Step 2: Buy a lot of hotchkiss machineguns Step 3: Actually use the darn things Bonus: get a plumber to make you a sub machinegun in 1906
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  564. huh, when you see something on a weapon in TF2 and find it was a real product
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  565. The luftwaffa had slightly larger supply issues by 44, namely the lack of planes
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  566. not a very good disassembly process
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  567. my guess is firearms laws will be tweeked after everything is resolved
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  568. I wonder if that pistol grip wasn't based on someone else using the AR like vietnamese troops who ARPA found had trouble using US standard sized weapons because they were just smaller
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  569. tbf, its expected target was a longboat
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  570. seems like a number of interesting stories there from the bren to the soviet years to the modern time
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  571. i wonder if it is just so much less possible today because of better primer chemistry and was more of a possibility back then especially in the earlier days of cartidges because of the chemistry of the early primers making them less predictable and maybe more sensitive
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  572. magazines were very difficult to reliably manufacture back then, and well mostly up to like the modern day, but clip systems were also substantially cheaper, lighter and easier to ship in that time so it made way more sense
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  573. 13:55 Someone's got a famas or other 3 round gun in the background?
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  574. "makes it quieter and sound like an AK" not that I'm familiar with the differences but I thought the AK was substantially louder than an AR or does it just change the tone
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  575. I don't even get the case bit because if you unscrew the barrel extension it would easily fit in that case
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  576. hard to find outside Tokyo Bay
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  577. This is one of those ideas that looks way cooler in your head. While your soldiers are firing a dozen rounds a minute, the mg08 gunner just opens up with hundreds of rounds a minute
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  578. always love the german safety markings No Bullet > Bullet > All the Bullets (not pictured)
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  579. I wonder if this level of mechanical control was just way more important back then due to poorer quality and manufacturing standards
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  580. that styling makes it look like a large frame PPK
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  581. or deterance theory is bunk and crime is an effect of some other indepentant factor or factors.
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  582. it just looks like colt went to vecktor and asked if they could make their baretta clone but with worse handling for their american audience who did not deserve nice handling pistols
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  583. that looks so much like the halo battle rifle (I know its inspired by the famas)
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  584. Kinda thought the doubletaps were your problem
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  585. ​ @Hybris51129  probably just a titanium reciever would make things much lighter
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  586. its an interesting book, I hope I can pick it up at some point, I can't quite afford it at the moment
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  587. "based on a S&W59 which itself is based on a Browning High Power" so its a browning highpower just fancier
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  588. Today: The Uzi you have at home
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  589. this is one of the funnier episodes of this whole conflict
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  590. yoikes, people stop hording toilet paper its causing shortages in other paper
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  591. What a weird turn for the french to use occupied german factories to make arms
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  592. it looks like if you described a webley over the phone to a gunsmith
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  593. a 30 round bolt action, what could you not like
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  594. why on earth would they build the frf 2 in the 90s when they had the advantage of like 50 years of development and commercial snipers
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  595. One Reciever to Rule Them All
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  596. Automag 357, for when you think your Automag is just too reliable
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  597. Victorian Spaceman Pistol
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  598. woo can't wait
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  599. its a neat mix of 'new' and 'old' technology you don't usually see make it out of prototyping. its 1880s in the back, 1920s in the front
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  600. nickel and cobalt are stupidly expensive right now
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  601. "Its zeroed at the factory and then you don't touch it because you can't be trusted." Stazi say "Name go on list."
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  602. kind of funny to think the european armies who were using massive amounts of unconventional weaponry just overlooked pump action shotguns, but like Ian said they wouldn't have thought about buckshot, or even been aware pump guns exist
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  603. so there was some factory out there that had a pile of workers that just cranked out these spy guns without questuon
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  604. "For God and Ulster, but not those damn catholic's God, our protestant God, just to be very clear." Didn't fit on the stamp
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  605. RemoteBrutality 2021: The Colder-er War
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  606. "Sir do you have anything to declare?" "You could say...I have some time.....to kill!"
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  607.  @Joshua_N-A  he's got 2, take your pick lol
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  608. ah yes, the oft forgotten assault tricycle
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  609. it foyers shnells
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  610. Ah yes a pistole 1001-0 only one agent we know of carries this pistol... Yertzi Bindionov
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  611. not many people cover the history of egyptian-sweedish arms
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  612. 1890 seems like a really late time to be selling these guns
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  613. grenade shotgun, it really just feels like it should be that obvious, yet it sounds like everybody beat around the bush on it.
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  614. nobody said they adopted the results
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  615. now go put this next to a glock lol
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  616. funny how europe's gun laws are up front maybe more stringent but once you're past the gatekeepers they can be much more permissive than the US
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  617. pretty beat up for a gun coming out of a country who's total contribution to both world wars was to be a slight speed bump for germany still interesting, detachable barrels but no larger magazine capacity
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  618. 3d printed glass filled nylon would break pretty quickly, though a handguard would probably work just fine
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  619. gee i wonder how italian arms ended up in ethiopia...
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  620. the birth of the military industrial complex right here!
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  621. but being 60s ford it probably came with broken parts that could only be replaced with genuine OEM Broken Parts
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  622. more like a bren gun
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  623. Eamon Reis its the policy of lobbiests to not go after the import ban...
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  624. casual c96 mauser or maybe a wauhser? sitting there, not sure how that got to the soloman isles could have been dutch, could have been chinese or could have just been japanese which is wild
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  625. or one of these throwback games with a deliberately low poly art style
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  626. "Today I'm at Inter Ordinance's break room to show you this weird gun!"
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  627. its weird that by the late 80s they chose to copy a 1930s pistol instead of like a glock or something
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  628. to be fair, a lot of his weapons are forgotten for the reason that they don't work all that well. Plus a lot of propshops who supply the henchmen tend to find lots of oddball weapons
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  629. Like he said, totally outdated from inception, they were probably pulled from service rather quickly and replaced with the hotter grenade firing weapons
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  630. You weren't kidding when you said this thing was sheet metal, there's just metal, rivets, and washers
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  631. dang these things are crude
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  632. kurtz shared almost all the same features as their 8mm mauser, just a shorter case. its not quite as bad as say Italy's 11mm and 6mm ammo issues though they probably should have tied to use a full power cartridge for the sake of keeping ammo the same
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  633. british ww2 EVERYTHING
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  634. Going out of Business is a milestone moment for any gun company in the US
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  635. Nothing in the front, nothing in the back
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  636.  @FirstDagger  I can't unsee it as being the B-2-1 being the second version of the B-2 since both should be visually similar
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  637. the most german of germans
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  638. he covered it in the last video, long recoil only needs a tiny amount of ejection force since the case has nearly no pressure in it by the time it ejects
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  639. The problem is that you need to cycle the gun before the pressure drops. A straight pull rifle you cycle the gun after all the gas has left the gun
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  640. "Ya who would want a flapper locked self loading rifle anyways." -Germans before the 1950s
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  641. now this is Magnum Force
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  642. faux-mas
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  643. the 110 year old BUG match in 1910 "Today I've got this flintlock pistol!"
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  644. I think Ian just went with whatever one he had access to
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  645. "Never force anything." wasn't there a gun you did once where the official disassembly instructions included bashing the butt against the ground repeatedly until it slips apart...
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  646. As seen in 007:Nightfire, didn't know it actually existed
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  647. on NDAs, you can't disclose info then insist someone sign an NDA afterwards. NDAs must be signed before you disclose anything. Hope KE gets to file a SLAPP countersuit, though I doubt they'll get any more money from these guys
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  648. is it a long sword with an integral gun, a short sword on a short rifle, a carbine with an absurdly long bayonet, or a big knife on a small gun?
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  649. you could do some interesting things with solenoids if you didn't care about practicality. I imagine you could build a system where the gun senses when the bullets reached a safe point, then a solenoid releases the lock on the breach
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  650. I feel like its been an age and a half since you've done an auction video
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  651. Now was that Browning tested by the horsey type of cavalry or the jeep riding type of cavalry, because that would have been a hilariously powerful and heavy weapon to lug by horseback
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  652. Seems like we should be cautious because the europeans might actually show you can both have legal firearm ownership and have a responsible system for regulating it, whereas in the US we're trying to either go fully overregulated or complete anarcho state , (looking at you ohio and your newly minted zero training ccw law)
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  653. US judges have their robes, British judges have their silly wigs, but I did not know japanese judges used to have swords
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  654. methinks that's kind of the point though, this was one of the few ways to get an AK which is very iconic in the middle east without buying it from a soviet aligned country
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  655. I think the fiberglass they had back then just wasn't that great given all the thermal cycling
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  656. interestingly the rest of the world tries to use scopes on snipers, but looking down a telescope to shoot is silly
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  657. was there any reason to avoid pins though? seems like it didn't make the gun any easier
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  658. japan also didn't ever fight anyone with tanks until they came up against the US. South east asia and the pacific aren't really great areas for tanks anyways since you have to ship them around on vulnerable transports and then land them on vulnerable landing craft then get them into position where they can actually attack.
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  659. if you have to use the sights on that thing I fear your assailant has a better reach with his knife
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  660. see you later swiss cowboy.
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  661. shoulda put a watermelon behind it. a standard issue british watermelon.
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  662. im curious as to what the recoil on that might feel like
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  663. this would make one hell of a cool starwars blaster
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  664. I do like the idea of a gun that can eat whatever garbage ammunition you feed it.
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  665. ​ @abergethirty self loaders probably would have been adopted in the 1940s has ww2 not come along
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  666. kludgy.
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  667. when you play hearts of iron 4, italy should just start with a bad weapons penalty
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  668. huh, probably shouldn't have trashed those parts in 1939... might have needed to build a bunch in 1940.
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  669. i find it funny they made musket rifles, but thats my pretentious 21st century vernacular imposing on the terms of the time
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  670. no aiming with this guy i guess since the barrel you're firing is the right most barrel off axis
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  671. were these issued out to commanders or designated people in a unit or just dispersed out? seems like they went to a lot of trouble making it not quite a rifle not quite an smg and they looked expensive to make
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  672. crunchysuperman it probably wasn't possible with the extruded aluminum upper to cut 2 holes like other ambidextrous bullpups do without compromising its integrity
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  673. that is a very thin rifle
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  674. one wonders what this design would do scaled up to a large caliber
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  675. so in 1885 winchester found the original gun jesus and he had a better winchester just laying around.
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  676. underbarrel catnip launcher
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  677. the furniture is bigger than the gun
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  678. this thing looks like a grease gun as if it weren't designed durring ww2 and made to be cheap
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  679. a remarkably thin rifle compared to the future british bullpup and even its other contempreraries
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  680. they should have put a knob on the bottom
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  681. 3am me thought this was an experimental 3.3mm rifle somehow
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  682. Cool, just enough to do a few mag dumps in my vintage volcanic 41 caliber pistol
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  683. profitable civilian military enterprise now that's one way to say pirate
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  684. it always astonishes me that these things at least worked enough to have survived, I'd assume if they didn't work at all i'd assume they'd have been thrown away, or blown up...
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  685. seems like they just let the gun get a bit too complicated for what it was
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  686. Is there any reason why telescoping bolts weren't much of a thing before the cold war guns, seems like the ought to have thought of that in ww2
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  687.  @torismegistos7111  ya I think the term was only invented by Uzi and there was prior work but your stens, grease guns, mp18, and ppsh all don't really put any mass in front of the bolt
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  688. Shotguns are going to be an interesting read. there's not really a shotgun associated with ww2
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  689. this is such a big pistol for slightly more than 45
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  690. to say striker fired pistols came around is just to say glocks came around and everybody went "Duh." when they stopped screaming about them being trash
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  691.  @dcrose001  trash, but exactly the right gun for a lot of applications like Ian hinted where you need something safe carried, but ready to fire, and not a revolver, and is also cheap, reliable, and compact
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  692. this is why you need 10mm
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  693. not sure I'd touch that much crusty lead without gloves. that dust is just gonna go everywhere
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  694. almost shocked the army didn't go with the obvious 1911 clone
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  695. that buffer on the firing pin assembly probably does a lot of work too
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  696. 7mm pinfire isn't even too bad
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  697. clearly they had a solution to the mag capacity issue
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  698. how many stemple receivers do they have left though
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  699. credit is due where credit is due, if you asked, ross would supply, whether it worked out or not
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  700. Ah yes, the gun that couldn't possibly hit a president in the back of a limo
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  701. Aluminum.
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  702. when Not-Ian was shooting you can see it looks like there was some trigger slap along with a lot of recoil
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  703. genuine wowser
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  704. seems like the only way to 1-up every other noble-count-colonel at the such and such ball who all also just happen to show up in their military dress uniforms.
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  705. There must be some military aviation historian that could clarify Elbonia's aiforce assets
    1
  706. does beg the question of why there isn't an over top 870 but then the recoil is off bore
    1
  707. mac before 10
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  708. the gun so powerful, targets explode in fear of being shot.
    1
  709. if this thing just had a 10 round short magazine and semi-auto itd be a nice little carbine
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  710. its funny you found one of those weird 80s guns that actually was as good as advertised
    1
  711. wait this is worse than the street sweeper (also by this company)? slam firing mechanism wow so the street sweeper (and lady's street sweeper) were improvements
    1
  712. my first thought was how do you even approach reproducing something like this, its beautiful and all hand made
    1
  713. theres something funny about racking the pistol grip to charge the gun
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  714. still can't really import ARs from over seas. what you buy is a gun 'made' in the US
    1
  715. seems like he's using a pistol as a carbine, otherwise that looks kind of uncomfortable but given the grip, its got very low recoil
    1
  716. When the cocking piece's action looks suspiciously like the clicker on a ballpoint pen you know something went wrong
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  717. blasphemy!
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  718. did you try making pew pew sounds to set off the timer?
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  719. show up in 1840 with a cap and ball revolver
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  720. so early the gun has no manual safeties
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  721. ​@maximilianmustermann5763 idk if the henry had a large cartridge yet
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  722. seems like from a glance, you might be able to load it into the magazine but it won't chamber as the bullet diameter is roughly 2mm larger and the 7.62 is a necked case whereas the 9mm is not. its still a big problem since you don't want to give people the wrong ammo
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  723. wow ian this is the beginning
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  724. It does make you wonder if you could still use this in .22lr given I think those were actual adapters and 3d printed might be strong enough
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  725. ah brings back memories from a previous job where there were both inch and metric on drawings at the same time
    1
  726. This thing just says "Go Die"
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  727. This is like a Sten HMG
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  728. its stupid, convoluted, doesn't make sense, but the NRA would fight tooth and nail to prevent it being replaced with anything else
    1
  729. break action pretty much renders all these systems moot, but then steel wasn't tough enough back then to do that reliably
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  730. dats not gonna be a small book
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  731. Why do you need a quick change barrel on an smg
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  732. what no included powerpoint?
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  733. you guys just haven't gotten someone to procure an elbonian airforce yet, don't let that stop them!
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  734. can't really control for that, he's just hoping for something remotely accurate
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  735. really the dystopia when even the private security folks get their budgets cut
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  736. FN has the best TLA's
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  737. also quite an important part of US history, unless you don't think an italian gun can hit a moving vehicle
    1
  738. bolt action, blow backwards?
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  739. does it go pfft?
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  740. is this the last day of FW on youtube?
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  741. seems like someone ought to have tried the slide at some point, but then sights were more of a suggestion in olden times
    1
  742. how many more thousands of rifles could they have made if they had just stamped the SN in like 3 places instead of on every interchangable part
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  743. thats not that bad of an idea i guess
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  744. Puts a new spin on calling something a boat, it looks like it steers like a boat
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  745. good god that poor chauchat, it looks so sad
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  746. pfet pfet pfet
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  747. ian really wanted this
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  748. Hail, Hail Elbonia, a land we hadly know. they try their best but they get bad stuff, to defend their loving home!
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  749. 240 rounds of ammunition zand magazines might have been a bit heavy
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  750. oh ian, you've finally admitted you want something reliable to shoot.
    1
  751. probably the more interesting bit to me is how much more they leaned into stamping. this thing probably has a handful of machined parts, the rest of it is entirely stamped
    1
  752. your camera's mike was like "naaa"
    1
  753. Ian going for Operation Sledgehammer with the shipping
    1
  754. its funny the special forces are actually doing what they were originally constituted for, which was to train and advise other militaries
    1
  755. the boberg looks so much like the pistol from Halo it makes me want it scaled up to some larger caliber and size
    1
  756. it comes for us all
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  757. it is perfection, as designed. course at 6,000$ and presumably a several year wait list it's not going to be jumping out everywhere
    1
  758. they say the elbonians procured something like 5000 autogyros before someone informed them of the advances in helicopters
    1
  759. for when you want to mince the deer instead of drop it
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  760. wonder if the writer of John Wick 3 was familiar with this since there's a whole bit around a big colt wheelgun
    1
  761. I bet dirty harry feels stupid now.
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  762. a hun with a gun is never not having fun.
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  763. seems like quite the liability for some grunt to try and fire this unstocked
    1
  764. just a boring bolt action hunting rifle
    1
  765. isn't the military loading not out for civilian use at the time of this video
    1
  766. Coulda just called them Luger Blacks
    1
  767. plot twist, this isn't the exactly right bayonet, the french had yet another gun with a literal sword with a bayonet
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  768. the guy that fired this had to have gone deaf after 1 shot
    1
  769. there is precedent for hats to follow firearms collecting, there's a quite famous game revolving around collecting both
    1
  770. everybody is for the free market until they disagree with it
    1
  771. its a ruger mini14 that goes bangbangbang in one pull
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  772. Maybe Dirty Harry's backup for when he's unsure of how many shots he fired.
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  773. Was this made at the Tuela Arsenal?
    1
  774. this is an incredibly silly gun.
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  775. Man who owns machineguns goes hunting, brings styer scout
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  776. somehow they made a tilting bolt glock and I'm impressed
    1
  777. With WW1 if it existed at the time, it probably was pulled into service somewhere. Ian has shown some even more improbable guns like 1895 winchesters issued out to tsarist russians now proving your gun was used in ww1 is a different matter
    1
  778. same kind of coverup happened to the thresher
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  779. "Reload!" "I can't!" lol
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  780. now if you could somehow combine the 1911 and the carbine into some kind of personal defense weapon......
    1
  781. the poor bloke with the piddly 30 round feed clip, guess its not a BAR though
    1
  782. nothing says "Look at my shiny new toy" like a shiny mirror finished chungus pistol
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  783. wonder if they had just gone full weird and put something like a 9mm pistol carbine in there
    1
  784. oh my god that wood stock is absolutely nuts
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  785. really short magazine tube for the size of the harpoon, what are you gonna do load it manually each time like a cavemusketeer?
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  786. You sure this wasn't made by one Artemus Gordon, sometime in the 1870s, possibly to fight a secret conflict against a former confederate genius who had robots and or a giant steam powered spider mech?
    1
  787. and of course its got a shoulder stock because reasons
    1
  788. "Physics can't be completely evaded." Tell that to the US Congress
    1
  789. If the ATF were to rule chain guns are just a bunch of semi automatics, someone would probably make one
    1
  790. ifv firing ports are one of those things designers seemed to think made sense without looking at how these vehicles were used
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  791. I think you talked about polymer cased ammo on some old video (might have been when covering the g-11) before the US seriously looked into polymer cased ammo
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  792. "This information is actually copyrighted" Wwwhhhhhyyyyyy! like its technical documentation produced by the government
    1
  793. if it came out today itd be the punisher snubinator 38xl or something similar
    1
  794. clever guys to take a double stack like that and make it feed single stack, pain to find I'd guess
    1
  795. seems like they ought to have regulated around bullet diameter from the beginning, or just said 9mm or .45 acp only
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  796. it does beg the question as to whether super high velocity flechettes have a practical purpose elsewhere like in single shot big game hunting where you deliver the devistating wound of a big bore with something 1/3rd the weight where handloading would allow for better QC of the ammunition
    1
  797. thats just a percussion ratchet, you'd find it in any highschool band room but its interesting they went to the effort of attaching it to a gun
    1
  798. This was clearly a WWauser 3319/¿& production rifle exported to ethiopia
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  799. oh lerd this thing looks good
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  800. why not, the g3 is just a 7.62 version of the mp5 and that's still kicking around
    1
  801. it looks like basically a grease gun with a wood stock, which is kind of what you want for a longer lived firearm
    1
  802. "And this is finished in a deep blue that will attract every fingerprint" Gun gets increasingly smudged throughout the video
    1
  803. that's kind of a terrible idea for specifically pinfire guns when you think about how those pins are sticking out
    1
  804. For legal reasons, that is not a mickey mouse shaped bolt face it is a steamboat willey shaped bolt face.
    1
  805. guessing the idea with the AA gun was that you'd have a couple dozen buddies also plinking the same helicopter, or around it anyways
    1
  806.  @acar3615  that was radium, which was exactly why they switched to tritium filled dials instead
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  807. its like the bestest smg
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  808.  @johnthompson965  it also doesn't help that the state of the gun industry has shifted from large firms with machinery and manufacturing space towards smaller firms with 3d manufacturing and small footprints. there's like a hundred shops making a hundred variants of ar15s now
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  809. steampunk shotgun
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  810. this is the new standard of boomstick, it can't be carried like a gun, its carried like a stick
    1
  811. wow this is a great list
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  812. I see a lot of not-straight lines
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  813. wouldn't least well known be more obscure?
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  814. a real life Team Fortress 2 gun
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  815. lots of old school machining equipment mixed with new stuff
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  816. oh arbitrary metrics and fiddly unit conversions.
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  817. if you squint it looks like a poorly modeled MP5
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  818. on the sights, my guess is they wanted the mag release to be usable with the left hand so they mounted the tab on that side and you can see the tab would have interfered with the sights
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  819. looks like something you'd see in bioshock
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  820. does Ian's resume just consist of all the rare sub machineguns he's fired over the years?
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  821. team fortress 2 looking pistol
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  822. I thought it was illegal to shoot elbonian small arms right handed, except if the gun is left handed. this is a country so nondescript, and poorly armed that one could say they don't even exist at all
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  823. seems like they went with a system that while capable of false positives, has greater reliability whereas previous attempts went for absolutely no false positives but with a noticable drop in reliability
    1
  824. #4 Mark 2**: Its a screwdriver on a socket
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  825. bayonette lugs on a starship trooper gun, because you never know when you need to stab a bug
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  826. the us made one but its somehow worse
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  827. Drachinifel getting hit by this is funny, I'm still waiting for my Mark 14 Torpedo to arrive in the mail
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  828. So is it better because its in .45 acp or worse because the c96's action isn't up to it?
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  829.  @sodneymvlin7715  he's just not allowed to modify the original reciever without permission
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  830. kind of shocked they couldn't just buy a bren line since its 1948 and nobody in the US has anything to do with the bren tooling here
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  831. yes
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  832. because the gun will speak for the people! many will see its visage and understand the worker's political struggle as it brings about the people's revolution.
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  833. how would this compare to the ww1 german tank-guvere
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  834. this fits the definition of Big Iron
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  835. I think the real advancement here was that the french trusted their own troops to zero the sights for the first time in french history
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  836. with 5 C-Cell batteries this thing qualifies as a weapon
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  837. this gun is overcompensation done 19th century style
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  838. I'd argue given that these were given to police, special police, special secret police, ect, having an ammunition that is under control of only the state makes sense. there probably was lots of ammo knocking around eastern europe after ww2, less so weapons, so if someone got their hands on one of these they'd have to get their hands on the ammo as well
    1
  839. looks like something a bond henchman would carry or out of a comic book
    1
  840. cutting against the grain here, this thing looks awkward uncomfortable, and even against a grease gun it looks wonky
    1
  841. you could possibly build an interesting solenoid system where there's no real reciprocating locking system, just Bam, and then the solenoid unlocks and cycles the action
    1
  842. seems like the perfect thing for 3d printing and could be made tougher with some toughening ribs
    1
  843. always funny that Nicaragua has always been used for shady shit
    1
  844. this thing looks absolutely cursed
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  845. its interesting you do still see some gas leak but not much.
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  846. man this thing is very interesting, I can't see the US military ditching its .50 cals for this but its really an interesting gun
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  847. Which would be the more scarce, the twenty shot or the six shot early models because I can see an argument for not ordering either one
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  848. Ian likes. Ian likes a lot.
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  849. Look, its an Ar, its an AK, No its FAL!
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  850. tbf if the secret service even needed 3 magazines things have gone VERY VERY wrong
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  851. Gordon!
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  852. the revolver thing was because they made a change to the prop gun without changing the line, everybody knew it was off but nobody cared because it looked so cool
    1
  853. its like a baby ak except not one of those baby aks
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  854. uh what's the bicycle seat for?
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  855. Granted its probably a prototype but I can't help but make the joke that the french did magazine tubes backwards
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  856. oh to lament that communism was created by the russians, and smart guns were invented by the germans
    1
  857. pistols in general are harder to build than rifles and smgs because of the size and form constraints. the limiting factor of the time wasn't manufacturing tech (maxim made a working black powder machinegun) it was the ammunition, it was either black powder or unreliable and wonkey, precision mass manufactured ammo just wasn't good enough till after ww1 to make things just work
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  858. Which was worse: The Mcarty Revolver or the Zip? (seems like the zip)
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  859. on the 3rd test the question is would they have fired the magazine before you put them in the mud anyways
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  860. Mauser would eventually get this right, it would just take a 2nd world war, and moving to spain, and a bunch of ex mauser engineers doing paperclip stuff for a dictator to get it right
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  861. one of the tactics the russians do and have done in their previous 'expeditions' into other countries has been to flood the country with these wandering troops while elite units do their thing, basically wolves hiding among sheep. This didn't work in such a large country as Ukraine
    1
  862. from just a space aspect pistols don't have enough space usually for the wider feed system
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  863. how in the heck did they make 400k-500k of these little guys, that's insane
    1
  864. man that famas is a loooooong way from home
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  865. making a gun survive 80,000 psi isn't unknown new science, its just nobody's typically done it on small arms like this
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  866. tbf the luger would end up having its issues
    1
  867. this had to be one monster to machine, ive seen tool guys run for the hills just milling simple shapes from titanium
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  868. aircraft mounted anti-airship gun
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  869.  @GunFunZS  its british because its a vickers, but like the british monarchy its got german heritage.
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  870. did they start out as a mould manufacturer or have a side business, that's some very specific skillset to be able to do in-house
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  871. Elephant guns for when your safari is on the western front
    1
  872. "Self Loaders will never work out, auto revolvers are clearly superior!" -lefever, way past the time self loaders were matured
    1
  873. why is that m16 twisted sideways...
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  874. how long does it take to fire 14,000 shots through a single shot percussion rifle...
    1
  875. Seems like this should be obvious but they're very poorly portable, they're only accurate when you're trying to shoot something as large as a tank and they're a total pain in the ass to shoot. there probably were people who got blown away by these guns but probably because they were in the wrong place
    1
  876. Ian found the guy that was buying all those mystery chinesium pistols
    1
  877. The anecdote about needing people who speak engineer and machinist is absolutely true
    1
  878. for when the bad guys in Dirty Harry need something to carry after loosing their .357s
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  879. Yes but did they show you how to properly tension the tracks? asking for another youtuber
    1
  880. the armory system probably would have killed any proposal to lighten the BARs if it ever went anywhere. you just couldn't be a private company developing a battle rifle for the army at that point without that nat-sec apparatus behind you
    1
  881. part of the simplification comes with a better and better quality ammo. the Maxim has a lot of stuff to deal with bad ammo slapped onto it, something like a modern LMG wouldn't even consider the need to adjust for poor ammo quality
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  882. thought this was Elbonia's updated sniper rifle
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  883. the barrel is thin, the gun is recoil operated and needs that barrel booster thing on the end, and its just an older design than the browning so nobody really put the work into redesigning it, while the US army really wanted to be able to use their new pile of obsolete machineguns from ww1
    1
  884. you say this is the first to use this but I suspect a handful of AR18's ended up getting sent back in time
    1
  885. Gotta do that war profiteering right
    1
  886. what time is it? BANG, woops forgot.
    1
  887. this is basically a glock but done terribly... 1) striker fired 2) grip safety activated 3) terribly unsafe? like he just had to do 9mm simple blowback and it would have worked fine, no grip activated locking block
    1
  888. do you think age had anything to do with the charging handle? the button seemed quite stiff and hard to depress in your take down.
    1
  889. seems like the laugo style fixed top strap is going to be more prevalent if someone can come up with a cheap gun that uses it
    1
  890. I see an obvious problem, how does one unload the thing without firing all shots?
    1
  891. could this have been made for some kind of security force in hati?
    1
  892. I'm surprised they didn't just consider using an air propelled gun instead...
    1
  893. part blunderbuss, part machinegun, part bicycle
    1
  894. kind of funny that a bog standard revolver would probably have been better than this thing, but it looks the part
    1
  895. wonder if this was more popular they might have put in a decocker so you don't need to reload to change modes. its not like this was widely available to the public anyways
    1
  896.  @tigas4d4  ya I was well aware of their double dealing, they sold tungsten to both Allies and Germany on the basis of "Hey the british and US have an awful lot of troops and landing craft, and the spanish and germans have an awful lot of guns..."
    1
  897. too bad someone can't rig up a shoulder stock for this thing, not sure about the legalities of it, but it doesn't seem that hard to make one
    1
  898. less review and more promote, but Hey you wrote a book! grats finally getting this out, the process sounds like a slog to get everything you wanted in it
    1
  899. makes you ask the question why they didn't take some spare bren gun parts and whack them on some stens they were making during ww2 as a ready made foregrip
    1
  900. In the year 018M02 the first prototype bolters were developed in ancient terra. By the 31st millenia the emperor would take these prehistoric weapons and bless them
    1
  901. you got shcleigle in my milk!
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  902. how funny would it have been if we adopted a roller delayed rifle
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  903. How many bottlecaps do these things typically trade for, asking for a friend
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  904. someday someone's going to go to the Khyber Pass and find guys there with CNC mills and autolathes
    1
  905. Industrial flex is an understatement when the brits still despirate for arms still chucked the 6 machineguns we stuffed into the hull of the M3s we sent them
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  906. thing looks like a walther PP if you squint. really funny james bond never picked up on this until after the ussr fell
    1
  907. its a closed bolt blowback smg? weird
    1
  908. Are there any attempts? Do Arnold Schwarzenegger movies count?
    1
  909. Could these be a Wauser type thing where they just marked not having any idea what they meant but that they knew the gun needed marked
    1
  910. this is even less reliable than the machinegun it came from
    1
  911. Did someone dig up a lost 1880s french armory or something?
    1
  912.  @jfess1911  oh these are more ethiopian guns
    1
  913. what germans consider "Simplified" is always kind of funny. Guess they must have made too many sights ahead of time to consider simplifying that
    1
  914. I could see someone show up with a ww1 HMG to try and blow john wick away, they haven't been afraid to use older weapons on him
    1
  915. looks like there is a singular flaw, in that someone could reassemble this without putting the barrel in the right orientation, not a huge issue, easily solved but otherwise a really good looking design
    1
  916. such a weird blend of archaic and modern
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  917. forget ball bearings, we should have bombed the german stamp factories, they would never have been able to produce a single thing without being able to stamp every single part with a proof mark.
    1
  918. show up to the shooting in a civic, get laughed at, pull this thing out the back
    1
  919. its a pretty well closed up rifle that looks like it came entirely too late to compete against lever guns and bolt actions
    1
  920. this approaches maximum dakka
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  921. Depending on the provinance could this gun have been brought mexico then later converted to rimfire
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  922. looks like a very simple blowback
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  923. this thing is all kinds of terrible especially when your barrel is secured forward by the trigger guard Its amazing how convoluted this gun got because the designer didn't believe in people having to rack the slide
    1
  924. 1930s tacticool
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  925. "Is it muzzle loading or breach loading?" This:
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  926. that's an anime-ass looking revolver straight out of Cowboy Bebop
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  927. looks like a museum or event presentation.
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  928. depends at what ranges you're practicing at and whether you compensate for that. They know this is an issue and are going to put a lot more thought into it than the police do for training. They'll either be practicing at ranges where the balistics are the same, or they'll have optics with a corrected ballistic profile in it, which the army seems to want to spend money on with a very high tech optic
    1
  929. sometimes guns just fail because they came at the wrong time in the wrong place. this looks like it could have been a better bren if it had been built in the UK
    1
  930. was the poor grunt that carried this supposed to just fire grenades constantly?
    1
  931. kinds funny its still got browning's work on it
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  932. is it not a mauser or a Not-A-Mauser?
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  933. it just seems all very uncomfortable and not very ergonomic
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  934. for the imperium of britain
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  935. The Bren gun because there's a north korean copy of a chinese copy of a soviet copy of a british copy of a czech lmg, not sure its change but interesting anyways I'd say the H&K family of roller delayed guns, the mp3, g3, and other derivatives are all essentially the same gun scaled up, down, stretched and shrunk
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  936. must be difficult with them disintegrating all the time
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  937. machinegun or pipe bomb?
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  938. funny they didn't just put a piece of wood or a grip up front instead of this, but then they probably thought they could find a better solution (then didn't)
    1
  939. very well made for being absolutely silly
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  940. its got some nice bits to it like how the chamber adapter fits in but there is obviously some design finess that could have been done
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  941. guy who designed the stock ought to have been forced to use it
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  942. this thing looks way too nice to be a smg
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  943. this looks like what they tried to go for with the Joker's comically long pistol in Batman, but actually real...
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  944. and today we're NOT going to take a look at another carcano
    1
  945. Was gonna make a joke about the SKS having the same bayonette mount, but idk how you'd bayonet someone with this short of chucking it like a spear
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  946. you can kinda see Ian was overcompensating for the compensator
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  947. this does seem like something that should make its way out of the competition market, this system isn't really that complicated and the non-recipricating top strap really is a great benefit to anyone wanting to put stuff on top of a pistol. it all depends too on how much they're going to work with other companies vs how much they want to keep in house, both ways have their pros and cons
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  948. I love this thing even by the name.
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  949. with 650k produced over just 2 years I wonder how little time it would have taken to finish their order of 40,000 guns in ww2 napkin math says the US could have fulfilled this order in 44 days if we had all of the m3 production going just to argentina. which is funny on its own since that'd be a single ship filled with m3's
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  950. that or bc our gun laws are basically antiques from a time long before the internet, and the ATF is writing regulations around what they have.
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  951. Gives a new meaning to cooking a grenade
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  952. set gun to "all the bullets" and smack
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  953. probably the one scifi gun that really is out there is Decker's gun from Blade Runner which is maybe a revolver, maybe not and is just a bunch of cobbled together parts
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  954. too bad you can't weld the austen's grips onto a sten.
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  955. Desert Brutality 2021: Pistol: MR73, Rifle: Famas, Precision Rifle: Also MR73, its got a scope and bipod
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  956. I'd like to see a tactical reload on this.
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  957. browning had a long history redesigning winchesters
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  958. that 1 frame doughnut of fire when he fires thr deagle
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  959. of all the places you'd think mauser would be the worst hit given its status as the head of german weaponry from 1890-1945 absolutely amazing their archives survived not one but two world wars and the partitioning of the country, twice
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  960. someday elbonia will acquire its own Battle Rifle, then its own Assault rifle
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  961. rube goldberg's mechanical clockamagun
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  962. my hands felt painful just watching that strap crush ian's hand
    1
  963. a portative sounds like something you buy for your grandmother at the drug store
    1
  964. flintlock assault weapon
    1
  965. ww2 was probably very similar, just colder, with more germans, and shittier stripper clips
    1
  966. So good, best korea still uses them to this day. Or well... a mutant relative
    1
  967. one day they should release a superbly ordinary pistol called 'Dave'
    1
  968. we missed the opportunity to try stripper clip fed shotguns
    1
  969. do we actually need to justify the existence of more .45 acp lugers?
    1
  970. i wonder how cold it was
    1
  971. the selector had to be worn, there's no way the selector should be thrown into safe like that
    1
  972. Is fine, hammer is standard issued equipment
    1
  973. one problem with this gun is the 4d magic needed to machine that bolt
    1
  974. send them a bunch of gun shaped objects with some boot polish
    1
  975. its turbocharged lol
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  976. german is such a serious sounding silly language as opposed to dutch which is a silly sounding silly language
    1
  977. I'm normally in the camp of tighter gun regs but SBRs should just be deregulated entirely if only so we can kill the abominations that are arm braces
    1
  978. ya you showed those germans/austrohungarians whats what with your superior rifles!
    1
  979. How many of those Bergmans have you seen before? that one with the shoulder stock looks suspiciously like the one from your video a few years ago
    1
  980. kinda funny nobody seemingly thought to shorten the bayonet instead of the rifle
    1
  981. really does seem like a thing that should have been designed out by now but everybody's got to have an ar15 like it was built. there's better solutions than a buffer these days
    1
  982. that 3rd one looks suspiciously like a sterling smg
    1
  983. Its an Uzi! No its a MAC! No its Styerman!
    1
  984.  @aac7183  ya its more the institutional system back then where the government's army told the manufacturers what to make but there was a bit of ross's stuff getting shot down because it wasn't from enfield
    1
  985.  @WetDoggo  maybe there was a crosshair available
    1
  986. ah ya, fall of 1917 probably wasn't a good year to try and sell guns in russia...
    1
  987. US small arms development in the post ww2 era was kind of bad... the m16/AR platform was a fluke
    1
  988. this is like something you'd find in CS:GO
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  989. so this whole program was just to replace everything with grenade launchers wasn't it...
    1
  990. WALKIE TALKIE DIEHARD!
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  991. gee I wonder why they made so few of a gun that came out in 1913
    1
  992. sneaky kraut is sneaky
    1
  993. you could say, the army has range...anxiety...
    1
  994. this is because karl was able to spin this with his revolver isn't this? (yes I know karl said your spinner is worse in his video)
    1
  995. bang bang bang bang "He must have an army of bandits with him!" bang bang bang bang "They aren't hitting anything though."
    1
  996. kind of hammers home that a 9mm (or pistol caliber) AR is basically a different gun altogether
    1
  997. temperature resistance is gonna depend entirely on what resin system they used
    1
  998. chunky, blocky, communist but not a big hand cannon. that 1st prototype looks almost like a 1911
    1
  999. its funny enough the range officer had no clue what you had
    1
  1000. yes, fast moving cavalry, the perfect guys to rock up, setup a HMG, hold a position, then gallop away
    1
  1001. rediculous: yes useful: maybe dieselpunk: heck ya
    1
  1002. almost looks like an MP5 but french
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  1003. you should get ahold of a revolver fitted with a Magna Trigger, that's another forgotten weapon thing
    1
  1004. clearly the germans invented it first as the soviets never came up with anything on their own, but they let the soviets think the germans reversed engineered it and kept it from service until the soviets had fielded their version
    1
  1005. this thing really looks like a henchman gun for a spy thriller
    1
  1006. Bramit? bramit, BRAMIT!
    1
  1007. seems like they coulda just gone to the ATF and requisitioned a bunch of confiscated guns and not had something that screams "CIA"
    1
  1008. the unfortunate lesson they also learned while making these guns, paratroopers suck and you should never use them. not something the gun could fix
    1
  1009. hey look a place where socialist european gun law is better than US law, though the ATF's reasoning here is correct.
    1
  1010. that's one very good looking police sniper rifle
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  1011. side loading revolvers were basically just as quick and substantially easier to manufacture as well as tougher by virtue of being solid frame guns.
    1
  1012. huh, my question is why didn't they just put a longer barrel on that gun, the fn 1900 has as far as I know, a fixed barrel
    1
  1013. they also had prison guards, even navy pilots who were very confused in the Fliegerführer Atlantik
    1
  1014. 1850s hellboy pistol...?
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  1015. isn't this testing a little unfair for this gun at this range?
    1
  1016. seriously this thing is getting out of control
    1
  1017. meat tenderizer is for making dinner on the march, the bayonette is also a butter knife
    1
  1018. I never thought you could extract so much work from a .22lr
    1
  1019. diesel punk red dot
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  1020. seems like some ideas keep popping up
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  1021. interwar machineguns are all so weird. everybody was building what they thought would be the general purpose MG for the next war
    1
  1022. I can't imagine how expensive it would be to fire this, let alone use the platinum plated reloading tool to spread platinum on my ammunition
    1
  1023. nobody said you couldn't, just that you don't need a million manhours of machining for something like a tossable smg
    1
  1024. hknuddv looks like its because the slot for the ejection is really tiny and the ammo is probably not quite up to what it was when it was new
    1
  1025. how the heck did someone get this in the US and get it registered and not get fed up enough to throw it at the targets?
    1
  1026. hmmm... its 1931 and the belgians want to start testing it. I can see them running out of time on this
    1
  1027. that cross bar safety and easy squeeze activation seems like the biggest flaw in this. other pocket guns like this have much better safety mechanisms
    1
  1028. love the PSA about shooting this thing under its intended range
    1
  1029. I always saw the dichotomy between wartime and peacetime adoptions as what do we need right now vs what is an investment for the future, britain needed millions of stens in 1940 but it was a temporary gun that didn't last but didn't need to, while in peacetime you can buy or produce the arms that are more expensive but higher quality and will stick around for a long time
    1
  1030. "acquired" these guns were prisoners of war! they were firing at the turks long after the last of the empire's soldiers had left galipali not this specific gun but others like it.
    1
  1031. amazing how the idea of basic plumbing impliments as an SMG doesn't seem to have occured to anyone at the time
    1
  1032. so would it devalue it if you say....finished it off and made it a fully functional machinegun shotgun?
    1
  1033. if only you knew someone with a pile of trap launchers from the late 1800s through the 1960s
    1
  1034. quite a silly idea
    1
  1035. an AK as if designed by the swiss
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  1036. seems like this may also be a function of funding vs institutionalism. as a repository of knowledge, it faces constant funding crisis because the few experts rarely have enough money to continue its operation while public (or private to an extent) moneys will kind of force museums to draw people in to justify its budget
    1
  1037. dictating how much of the collection gets displayed, how complete it must be, and whether duplicates can or can't be sold off is an impossible ask and you'd think he would have spent some time researching this before he passed
    1
  1038. kinda like how the vz 26 went on to become so many brens and bren clones
    1
  1039. "this is the 44 automag the coolest handgun in the world, capable of blowing your head clean off and I know what you're thinking, 'Did he load 5 or 6 shots?' Well do you feel lucky punk? Do ya?"
    1
  1040. for when rich people of the future go hunting dinosaurs in the jarrasic era.
    1
  1041. so if you put a 30 round mag into this and set it to 25, does a H&K technician drive up and remark the selector options?
    1
  1042. or over the trench
    1
  1043. August 15th 1939 was the premier date for The Wizard of Oz, clearly Goring was inspired by the gilded city of Oz to commission-slash-dictate these be made
    1
  1044. that first one looks gorgeous, the 2nd one might be a nightmare since its got a 1 off magazine
    1
  1045.  @foashly7400  right, ian has had absolutely beautiful ones on here b4
    1
  1046. is it still a machinegun if there's literally no ammunition for the weapon in existence...
    1
  1047. m3, 10 and 11 might have just been placeholders with no program ever assigned, just on the basis that they might anticipate a new gun
    1
  1048. did you intend for the title to say "The iconic smelly of wwi?"
    1
  1049. in a world where rails and kit didn't exist...
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  1050. not sure you'd want to shoot a prototype that uses an experimental locking system, though 9mm isn't exactly that bad
    1
  1051. does this thing fall into ATF Curio and Relic status for being a truly forgotten, novel, weapon greater than 50 years old
    1
  1052. think the idea of the hook might be shooting with a riot shield
    1
  1053. ya but how good is it at raytracing? how does this compare to intel battlerifle?
    1
  1054. seems like the grip safety isn't really that good
    1
  1055. its interesting that this thing is much more advanced than the german equivalent which had wooden wheels and iron rims but the exclusion of any suspension seems glaring
    1
  1056. legitimately thought this was Inside Man not Dog Day Afternoon
    1
  1057. I find it kind of funny they went with a cross bolt safety, I thought the military abhored those, and this wasn't a war time adoption either, they had time
    1
  1058. I know movie sound effects for suppressors are usually bad but this thing was doing the movie pfft pfft pfft thing
    1
  1059. shoulda just adopted the FAL
    1
  1060. Ok its not like .38 special was some new fangled cartridge, why didn't they just adopt a .38 special or .38 s&w
    1
  1061. what do you mean, elbonia is famous for having purchased over 200 Ford Tri-Motors to use for paratrooper deployment, granted they all were scrap metal by the time they arrived, duraluminum wasn't very durable... but they have an airforce
    1
  1062. amazing how you can deal with that much recoil and remain a precision rifle
    1
  1063. it really seems like the flaw with the blich lock should have been obvious as dissimilar metals are used for lowering the coefficients of friction such as bronze and steel.
    1
  1064. didn't Ian have a video with Walther from shotshow where they basically said the US just isn't the market they want to compete in?
    1
  1065. that bulpup prototype really looks like something out of Halo
    1
  1066. what bazillionaire lent you not only these preproduction guns but also the luger
    1
  1067. the dude that designed this must have had ripped arms to not think this wasn't a bit of a problem
    1
  1068. guns are like doors, they look easy enough to make until you actually try to make them and realize they're really hard
    1
  1069. better or worse than your calico?
    1
  1070. it was one of the worst planes ever, just sneezing in it might have been enough to be melted by boiling acid
    1
  1071. We have the technology, we can rebuild these tubes, make them shoot faster, have higher capacity, and endurance...
    1
  1072. the bit about the floors not being strong enough is funny, who thought up putting the cannons on the 2nd floor, why put down heringbone wood floors if you're putting cannons on it, why put up so many vaulted halls if you're putting cannons out
    1
  1073. the us military was giving officers baby colts for basically the same reason back then, and germany had to go out of the way to convince officers that no they didn't need a luger with the fancy leather holster, so its not unique to japan to give officers weapons they don't need
    1
  1074. on the left we have the m1 rack, the nagant rack, the mauser rack, the enfield rack....
    1
  1075. you wonder why they didn't just give them like a 16 round stick mag instead of going to the trouble of doing the drum
    1
  1076. I can see a fundimental flaw in this gun, its always going to have a live cartridge in it
    1
  1077. its possibly ironic that the ar15 was supposed to be temporary
    1
  1078. someday Ian shall have at one table the entire lineage of H&K guns
    1
  1079. think not of the katana as a backup sword but as a very large two handed bayonette
    1
  1080. I wonder if this wasn't just made as a wall hanger/decorative piece and all the "functional" bits like the bolt and magazine just vaguely look like they would work
    1
  1081. dang I worked for DuPont for 4 years and didn't know they also owned remington once upon a time
    1
  1082. on a henry especially, the magazine tube on the top might have been better and safer given the follower problems that design has but then the sights would be way over bore
    1
  1083. seems like "Better than mp5" is just nitpicking with enough money to buy a new gun because a lot of the requirements aren't usually that far off of what an mp5 already does
    1
  1084. that is a horrible finish regardless of whether its intentional or not
    1
  1085. I wonder what's the chance of breaking off a flute with that funky bipod mount
    1
  1086. thing is in aerial applications your minigun is going to get aircooled pretty quickly and you only ever have a minute or so of ammunition
    1
  1087. weird how conservatives got upset over this one TRAP-style law.
    1
  1088. this thing must have the worst trigger pull ever
    1
  1089. on the plus side if you ever ran out of ammo you could bludgeon someone to death with that bolt
    1
  1090. hot loaded 9mm blowback pistol, what could possibly go wrong?
    1
  1091. 2:57 remarkably simple and straight forward tender also absolutely stupid the ammo and launcher are seperate contracts when these are all custom systems
    1
  1092. "I see agent Ian-07 that-" "Hold on a minute, I have to film next week's video."
    1
  1093. I still hope to sub to floatplane when I start getting money coming in again, I want to support both you and the platform
    1
  1094. then the usmc would adopt it in halo 2
    1
  1095. only difference between ww2 and post war cheap smgs is that post ww2 maybe added some complexity with safeties and other internal bits that you do kind of want in an smg but were cut in ww2 for ultimate cost savings
    1
  1096. its a complicated gun that required a bit more engineering and development work as well as quality than what was probably possible at the time for small companies
    1
  1097. I feel like the only reason why the paramarines existed was just because the army had them, I can't think of any time when you'd be able to deploy them or be invading somewhere where you'd need them. Apparently the US Military had the same thoughts, especially as the paramarines never had transport aircraft
    1
  1098. It wouldn't be a metrology lab without an optical comparator
    1
  1099. its fascinating that we haven't had more pharmacutical based passification schemes throughout history. Scifi was absolutely certain both democracies and authoritarian states would justify their use for stability, and the relative cost to produce drugs completely cratered in the 20th century to the point where making enough doses of something isn't fictional levels of spending
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  1100. given the rarity its gonna be obscene
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  1101. the front wheel at speed is kind of like a rudder before you get to the hydraulics
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  1102. straight pull does seem like a logical thing to convert, no mussing about with bolts
    1
  1103. huh, something was different about Ian for the mp5, can't place it though
    1
  1104. ya trying to find the first non-repeating bullpup would be a fruitless exercise as even back to the beginnings of the gun people had versions used on the shoulders
    1
  1105. I think its kind of ironic an american gun was sold to spanish to probably be used against americans when we totally-didn't-invade invaded them
    1
  1106. its like the unholy marriage of a grease gun, a sten gun, and an mp40
    1
  1107. oh cool Ian, I had thought this would have been a good platform for you from when Linus launched it
    1
  1108. smgs with bayonettes just seem to miss the entire point, especially the small ones
    1
  1109. so easy even a Theoretical Physicist can pick it up and shoot!
    1
  1110. best guess on the bars was to stick through a leather strap of some kind, this was likely intended for ships since the navy was where all the money was at
    1
  1111. how scandalous
    1
  1112. I'd say this would have been advertised as the perfect budget way to fight strikers and union agitators, but the guys that did that probably had pump actions anyways since they had money
    1
  1113. the Halo 2 Battle Rifle has arrived
    1
  1114. funny that Brown Bess also kind of sort of means Generic Gun in a way Assault Rifle might be used today to describe the kinds of guns soldiers use today
    1
  1115. the casualties the russians have taken, even looking at the numbers both sides admit to are apocolyptic for modern militaries
    1
  1116. if you don't have to engage at any substantial range its probably fine
    1
  1117. the steyr scout you have at home?
    1
  1118. someday they're going to build m60s in miniature and Ian is going to get to John Rambo it
    1
  1119. PDW for when Assault Rifle seems too nebulous.
    1
  1120. probably better this went nowhere because the ZB26 was a fantastic design going on to be the bren and so many other guns
    1
  1121.  @Sun-Tzu-  the soviets ran out of political support. Gorbechev's reforms ironically allowed people to vote the communists out, and they did, and then the nationalists dissolved the ussr.
    1
  1122. its a missing link
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  1123. no more so than any other self loading system baring a few odd ones, the action of a self loading firearm can be broken down into a couple of parts, the feed system, the locking system, and the firing system, and for the most part every category of those systems works with each other, like say a striker fired belt fed roller delayed gun, or a hammer fired magazine fed short recoil rifle the paterson rifle did have a problem with extraction, being a toggle delayed rifle, its cases needed to be specially coated in a wax lubricant to properly extract due to the higher pressures experienced
    1
  1124. its a >100 year old shotgun that looks pretty modern
    1
  1125. 44 automag for primary gun, 357 coonan for bug, wait were you supposed to use rifles?
    1
  1126. I can't get over that they still have a forward assist when they now have a bolt handle and a T-handle. Cut that cancer off already, nobody's creeping around with this thing
    1
  1127. kind of inexcusable when there were plenty of revolvers back then.
    1
  1128. team fortress 2 did this one better by making it a 20 gage shotgun
    1
  1129. i always wondered why they didn't shift the cylinder forward to give you grip, especially on the colt where the revolver mechanism is located at the very rear of the access pin anyways and so would only require a longer pin
    1
  1130. it doesn't work very well to prevent chainfires thats why
    1
  1131. this thing is way too well engineered and put together to have been a 1-off
    1
  1132. wouldn't be a 19th century carbine without a bayonet half its length
    1
  1133. its kind of funny nobody came up with the smg before ww1, not that there was much of a use case but its weird nobody seemingly tried making a mini-machinegun especially using pistol calibers until ww1 came about, minus that weird italian gun
    1
  1134.  @comradecosmonaut7746  ya but by the same thought nobody would have made a machinegun or artillery piece yet those were made regardless of the percieved need in warfare. The best I can guess is that they sort of did since there were things like full auto stocked pistols which are basically smgs but not dedicated smgs
    1
  1135. I wonder if they had just approached it as a caseless ammunition with a more conservative rifle would the germans have adopted it
    1
  1136. kinda surprised you can't just shut the chamber (without a bullet) and let the snow melt quickly since you've fired a few
    1
  1137. If I was an armorer on John Wick I'd give him a chassepot in .308 and see if he can kill people with it, props if he can actually shoot someone with it.
    1
  1138. this thing has the trigger pull of a staple gun
    1
  1139. Seems like everything the germans made in small arms from ww2 till 1990 were mp5's or g3 and derivatives
    1
  1140. kinda ironic the russians claim to have all this body armor so the US adopts a body armor defeating rifle, then russia turns out not to have all that much body armor
    1
  1141. shouldn't the elbonian resistance paradoxically have substantially better guns than the actual military?
    1
  1142. wonder what happened in about 1914 that caused them to stop development...
    1
  1143. I like how german it is to make the stock wobble correctly but switch to fully machined blocks of metal over the easier stamping construction, though I guess it might be easier for a smaller production that way maybe
    1
  1144. does it bark in italian?
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  1145. say what you will, johnson does seem like a jolly sort of guy open to anything.
    1
  1146. MAC-10 serving covert troops and every 80s bad guy since 1964
    1
  1147. times don't change, the military was bickering over SAO vs DAO past ww1
    1
  1148. grenade launching sniper rifle
    1
  1149. ​ @broitsmikey  more like "pass the almost 20mm shells" not that those guns are picky
    1
  1150. The streetsweeper IS a destructive (to its user) device, this is a shotgun
    1
  1151. "you like hot gas sprayed in your face and hot brass shot at you? well we have the gun for you!"
    1
  1152. so does this appeal to Luger collectors and anti tank gun collectors?
    1
  1153. amateur gunsmith who's also a journeyman knife maker?
    1
  1154. the mp5 is such a force of nature it imprints itself onto reality, someone would have the idea force itself into their mind
    1
  1155. the ww2 system worked almost miraculously given how patents and red tape snare things up. From what I've read one of the reasons was that 1) as you mention, the Government, not individual companies, purchased the machinery for these companies and 2) the gauging and production jigs for say a M1, were manufactured by the gun manufacturers who were loosing part of the contracts, thus maybe sweatening the deal for them since they're notoriously fickle companies when it comes to gun contracts.3) Then ontop of all this the US just had more authority back then to command companies to shut up, like the aircraft manufacturers being forced to contract out subcomponents that they would normally want to keep in house for more profit
    1
  1156. bullet, no bullet, empty magazine.
    1
  1157. someday someone's gonna put a chronology together of the evolution of these sorts of aim assist systems up to the red dot
    1
  1158. almost wonder if someone somewhere thought "20 rounds sucks!" and cobbled a drum to work with it
    1
  1159. really doesn't look like a gun from this century, looks like some 1980s smg
    1
  1160. its entirely possible the safety worked when manufactured and whoever owned this gun didn't really know how or why safeties work and had it filed down
    1
  1161. i feel like the engineer forgot to watch his 2 other videos where he said "I'm going to keep shoveling bullets into this gun until its out of bullets or jams like everybody thinks it will"
    1
  1162. And yet nothing about NATO ever stopped H&K from developing a rifle that wasn't a resized, recalibered g3
    1
  1163. cursed idea, bullpup lever action. lots of crazy parts would be involved
    1
  1164. seems like with all the changes why bother, but I guess if you're presumably a former warsaw country and have tons of AKs this might be attractive if you could have just dropped this upper on your old lowers
    1
  1165. somehow illegal in california back in the day
    1
  1166. is that a paratroopable italian copy of an m14, why when you already have very good smgs
    1
  1167. What happens if the blank is a dud? Toss the launcher
    1
  1168. its interesting that very few industrial manufacturers got into the business until really the very end of the century or the 1900's, it was lots of little guys with maybe some friends that had some money, it wasn't till like the mauser that people woke up and realized there was a lot of money to be had here.
    1
  1169. almost as exciting as seeing a crate of surplus elbonian arms
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  1170. 8mm kurz would be a good candidate if the germans had been able to adopt it as standard, then you have the troops with the assault rifles (literally the name) and troops with lighter bolt actions that can carry more ammunition, while preserving the full sized 8mm mauser for machineguns, kind of works to the germans favor with how bad their logistics are going to get. the russians are just going to give as many people as possible sub machineguns anyways and use them as assault rifles
    1
  1171. man they loved their weird sights
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  1172. i like how it just seems to make noise and spit out cases, I don't really like how swiss this is
    1
  1173. there's something deeply ammusing about having a brace of modern pistols
    1
  1174. avs-36 Now with high speed noodle physics!
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  1175. the rate of fire and consistency is suprising and a marked inprovement over the previous iteration
    1
  1176. I bet somebody is incredibly proud of this gun
    1
  1177. is this a holy 10mm handgun or is .40 considered underpowered to be compared to 10mm
    1
  1178. that's more Carl's area of expertise
    1
  1179. so how many AA's does it take?
    1
  1180. looking at this thing, you could have gotten away with just two chambers
    1
  1181. huh, you'd think refusing to make guns for the nazis would have ended with a permanent cessation of business via a transfer of lead to the head behind the shed
    1
  1182. the fg42 leaves it all down range, even the brass.
    1
  1183. thought this was german for a moment because it would be metal AF to be a Harpoonen Gewher
    1
  1184. bayonets on smgs will never not look funny
    1
  1185. looks like the stock was made from a kitchen table. That said, you wouldn't want to be armed with this when you have either side of the allies bearing down on you
    1
  1186. seems like they missed the point of a service pistol
    1
  1187. stg was probably too heavy, its something like 12 lbs, and large
    1
  1188. it'd be quite difficult given that the ammunition and bore for those guns is crazy
    1
  1189. Finish German Russian Nagant
    1
  1190. Judas Preest smgs used to be frontline weapons, mostly cheap to make as well, a big shuttling mass is easy to mill, easy to design. later on they evolved into more police, second line, and special use weapons where compactness, safety and accuracy, as well as durrability became more of a concern. post war also saw the advent of telescopic bolts which were harder to build but allow you to make a smg smaller for the same mechanism. just watch a few of his smg videos, he has done a pretty thorough overview of the evolution of smgs by now
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  1191. the good thing about this gimmick is if it doesn't work you can still handload a shell
    1
  1192. yikes, indexing that thing looks like a pain, though I suppose its fine for a sporting hunter who has minutes or hours between shots. Seems like a simple indexing system would have been better than none, even a flatspring would have helped
    1
  1193. interesting the I assume wooden wheels rotted away but the metal that bolted to it didn't
    1
  1194. big dumb handgun go bang lol
    1
  1195. this collector has a No5 MkII, like how bloody rare are those
    1
  1196. it really seems like he ought to have just tried getting some capital in the US and building some here...
    1
  1197. itty bitty baby barrel
    1
  1198. is there any reason why they sold these with 32 round mags other than because they could? seems like 32 rounds for a semi auto pistol is more than excessive
    1
  1199.  @deathlis  doesn't seem like there's a reasonable chance of defending yourself without shooting yourself if you and subject are THAT close, whatever some CQ CC EXPERT dreamed up
    1
  1200. interesting, there's so much thought into the design and manufacture, the problem was the selling bit
    1
  1201. Mac-11 lower stuck onto an AR upper, Yikes, that is truly a franken gun
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  1202. huh, kinda thought schwartzenegger's M47 was bigger but his is non-firing
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  1203. finally an mp40 for the good guys, sort of... still trying to figure out if spain was evil or not.
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  1204. 1920s space-shotgun?
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  1205. 20:43 I think in the film he was kind of in a bit of a hurry and that was the gun felix had on hand or something
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  1206. .22LR was the ranger with the nylon on his hiiiiiiip
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  1207. gotta give them credit though, a box of 8x50 round magazines is certainly lighter to move around than a can full of a belt with hundreds of rounds of ammunition
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  1208. they say there's no new ideas in firearms but I think gear ratio delayed mg is a novel idea
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  1209. its like he wanted to invent the glock and then made something that could easily blow your fingers off instead!
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  1210. I wonder if the idea is to put out the rifle now and then later work on lightening it with experience gained from use since there's a plethora of options they can do to lighten it like switching to polymer or other materials for things like the lower, hand guard, and stock
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  1211. 13:45 this is a problem with US gun laws, admitting a problem is basically the only time people can sue a gun company, so they won't.
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  1212. my guess is they had pps43 barrel blanks which are about the same length and just used those to convert these guns. that's probably why they're about 10" long
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  1213. so new the video doesn't even appear on your YT page
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  1214. excellent work agent 47, now proceed to an exit
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  1215. early squad automatic rifle?
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  1216. my guess would be because germany had a preponderance of 20 mm cannons and lots of portable field guns, something the US really didn't adopt
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  1217. quite a fat machinegun
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  1218. Yet more MP5's
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  1219. too bad you couldn't shoot this one.
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  1220. you did this whole bit without even considering removing the forward assist
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  1221. when your guns are padded with other guns
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  1222. Just spitballing, but its 1916, ww1 id going on, and aluminum bullets sound extremely extravagant. Maybe they were concerned their pistol might be needed to be chambered in something larger than that weird .45
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  1223. I always preferred Betamax to VHS but to each their own
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  1224. steampunk to the maximum pressure
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  1225. ah a great example of the army and the navy telling each other to eff off
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  1226. sometimes a forgotten weapon isn't a bad gun it just went up against truly great guns, which was the case with this guu
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  1227. ​ @andrejohnson6101 hitachi makes everything from heavy power generating equipment to personal massagers. asian conglomerates are wild
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  1228. they lowered the polygon count and lowered the texture resolution to get a simpler gun
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  1229. the allies made a mistake in not bombing german serial number die factories. literally nothing in germany can be made without stamping every part with a serial number
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  1230. Guadalcanal is where the war with japan turned. had the navy gotten totally defeated, had the marines lost the battle for the islands, the allies couldn't have really progressed northward in the southeast asia campaign, from that campaign onwards the japanese really were on a slow retreat
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  1231. the thing with modern conflict is its rare you've pissed off everybody to the extent that you can't obtain small-arms from anyone else
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  1232. seems a bit excessive for .22 but this was tacticool for 1920ish
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  1233. this thing works on a bunch of simple principles, and believing these all work together
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  1234. I know they're different countries but their offices scream Upscale Ikea, but that's not a bad thing
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  1235. surprisingly complicated for mid war USSR
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  1236. I think Ian had the right idea of using the bench rest especially if you're shooting 6$ rounds
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  1237. Would love to see a dudebro unironically hyping 9mm ultra as the ultra powerful 9mm cartridge
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  1238. he's done that before
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  1239. the solution to loosing the bipod was to make it worse!
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  1240. the mg16 is just stupid for walking fire. Did the germans even use it for that purpose anyways?
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  1241. Is it me or does ian's wallpaper look more wrinkled with each video?
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  1242. the vertical front grip makes too much sense, remove it!
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  1243. the spinner really does definitively answer the caliber vs velocity debate at least for a very specific set of circumstances
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  1244. Wauser: we tried our best!
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  1245. the internet needs a gif of ian using this
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  1246. a solution looking for a problem sadly. the rotating barrel is pretty unique
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  1247. worldwide booksighning tour, like in 2-3 years though
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  1248. someday I hope to see him bring this to a match and cheese the whole thing but then unloading and reloading it might be a bit of a pain between matches
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  1249. its weird, a country that had about 20 years of gun design in total at the time and had a very small domestic small arms industry made a gun with what everyone else would consider a crude seer bar mechanism.
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  1250. having looked at a mattel maurauder, ya I can see how you might confuse it and an M16
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  1251. puts a different spin on SUB machinegun, maybe TMG or Tiny MachineGun would be more appropriate?
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  1252. that triangular shape of your MAS 38 reciever makes it look like the barrel is bent
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  1253. "Model: High Caliber, its 25mm french" Laughing in American 44
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  1254. how are you allowed to put a firing range around such a giant cactus
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  1255. its like if Matel tried to make a sten gun
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  1256. greebly greeble
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  1257. I wonder what you could have done with a revolver where the barrel comes back and seats over the chamber like that
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  1258. eh, the thing is, you really want to make sure your 40mm grenade goes exactly around where you wanted it to go
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  1259. pretty dang clever design for the time considering what frankenguns china's small arms industry was producing back then. though this might be among the most overengineered .32 out there. probably gets scalding hot when used more than a few times though
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  1260. you really danced around calling it the CZ equivalent of a glock
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  1261. Babies first bullpup? its adorably small
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  1262. I thought that was plastic until the up close look at it, man that thing is rooooouuughhhh
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  1263. Now the question is; Deagle or AutoMag?
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  1264. no because the projectile has usually left or is about to leave the barrel by the time the recoil force overcomes the action. all systems try to unlock only after the pressure has dropped to a safe level; basically they're all using about the same amount of force imparted by the firing of the bullet and shouldn't be affecting the velocity of the bullet
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  1265. maybe they were keltecs
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  1266. thats a very long shotgun
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  1267. thanks for pointing out its named after the horse, not the small shitty car that could blow up on you, or the beans.
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  1268. This is for when you absolutely have to have the biggest range toy and your wife won't let you buy a tank instead.
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  1269. quite an amazing collection of incredibly important models. also, that valley one is nuts that anyone would ever consider fighting a battle there, it makes gettysberg look fair
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  1270. seems like the bottle opener could have had a better solution like say a stamped out 1c bottle opener issued as kit...
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  1271. other problem is titanium catches on fire. not sure what Ti64 does but its a problem when machining other titanium alloys
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  1272. interesting how this is such a basic SMG. a lot of these interwar guns had a lot of bells and whistles because nobody was sure what they wanted
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  1273. I'm really shocked they didn't just make a g3 in 5.56, it was obviously not that hard to rechamber the mp5/g3/everyotherh&k edit apparently they did, why they didn't offer it idk
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  1274. this things gonna go for insane dollars
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  1275. a bullpup stengun....
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  1276. tall title for thus chann3l...
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  1277. gonna guess that tiny spring and flimsy buffer is gonna make the bernideli much worse to shoot
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  1278. @Hayden Lysinger  probably all of those. the only reason they treated allied bomber pilots as well as they did and not (usually) machinegunned them was because the germans had large amounts of lost pilots in allied POW camps. soldiers were not treated well at all, sometimes outright executed, and any spies or clandestine operatives were shot as they had no nominal protections under the conventions of war
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  1279. Seems like most of the issue comes from the crazy linkages in the gas system not the system as a whole. A solid op rod from a gas tap. The bolt mutilation though seems like something that can't be avoided
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  1280. automated sentry guns are something we've not seen much deployed even though they're more than technologically possible
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  1281. Get outta here you! Nobody wants magazine cutoffs, nobody!
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  1282. kind of weird this thing only weighs 10 lbs but I guess the barrel really isn't that thick
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  1283. I feel like Ian's name must have popped up on a list trying to get these 6 pistols, then they checked the name and took it off
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  1284. checks date I think you ought to get a new calendar
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  1285. today's video: Pointy bits on the ends of rifles
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  1286. I'm guessing they put these into production in late 1938 and stopped for some reason by late 1939
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  1287. Still like the French Trench Rock
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  1288. "Mama can we have a p90" "No we have a P90 at home." p90 at home
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  1289. A paton that comes with spare wheels? Score!
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  1290. Tell my wife, hello.
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  1291. kind of shocked they did this much instead of using a trabsfer bar
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  1292. Who wore it better!
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  1293. now if only we could find a memo of how pissed the guys were to recieve a bolt action cludgy springfield instead of a slick winchester with explosive bullets
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  1294. I would say the Pentagon HAS the logistics capability that springfield had, but we maybe don't have a dedicated small arms development group like them who had they survived the 60s probably would have transitioned into being more of a review board and less a manufacturer. certainly the way the army aquires small arms could use significant improvement (though that too may have finally worked itself out) maybe between darpa and the weird offices of the pentagon we're fine
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  1295. did everybody else bring revolvers or small cap magazines and you brought a carbine pistol?
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  1296. this might be the funniest thing you've done in a while
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  1297. I think Industrial Design is probably the best path from just a job skills perspective, but like that's a field of designing just stuff that might be guns
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  1298. why would you need to spend a year researching when 10mm is the holy cartridge
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  1299. far from a forgotten weapon
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  1300. different audio setup from normal
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  1301. hopefully this doesn't drive ian to NRATV, i can stand skipping their ads here but I can't support their own agenda just to see these interesting engineering marvels
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  1302. a gunsmith who was also a watchmaker in switzerland? how absurd!
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  1303. yes but which one is better so the other side is wrong.
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  1304. put a red dot in front of the scope because everybody knows red dots make every gun better
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  1305. I just had total recall about these
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  1306. "Get me closer so I can stab them with my gun!" -Commisar Whatshisface
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  1307. man I just read your writeup on the maxim suppressor, can't wait for a video on it, especially if you have some physical references
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  1308. I feel like a lot of these guys making these sort of flawed gun prototypes knew very little of how to handle a gun, which for the 1860s might have been some of a benefit given how muskets would heavily influence cartridge firearms, but then there's things like the double triggers
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  1309. rubber?! in bullets. ya the south wasn't in a position to get that off the ground.
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  1310. the ""Genuius of the Carpathians""
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  1311.  @M.M.83-U  unfortunately it would require a reinterpretation of Heller as well as rewriting a lot of laws to enact a system where you have the right to own and use firearms, but only after you're trained to do so. all our gun laws keep having the same problem that they can't stop you from owning a gun and having no idea how to own and operate a gun
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  1312.  @Bacteriophagebs  I think in terms of smallest, this is the smallest practical revolver since .22 is about as small as you really want to shoot at someone because anything smaller is a really oddball cartridge
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  1313. its very german, prim and proper finish for business, psychedelic finish behind the scenes
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  1314. Maq-Dix
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  1315. it does amaze me that the germans thought to stick a cannon into their jet fighters, like its a big long cannon sticking out of a streamline aircraft
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  1316. now if james bond carried this, the line "only one man in the world carries this gun" would have made sense
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  1317. kind of surprised this actually works since blow back operation kind of needs a large enough bolt mass to cycle properly instead of just explode
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  1318. the FAL you have at home
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  1319. Ian, your determination to prove this gun has ruined it somehow. lol
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  1320. ya they had like 2 pounds 5 shillings budget for Dr. No
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  1321. gotta be honest, a kar 98k rifle in service in 2025 wasn't on the bingo card
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  1322. FRY YOU EMU BELLIED COWARD!
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  1323. "Lets go rescue the czeck legion" MEANWHILE IN THE UKRAINE "ha ha armored train go cho choo"
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  1324. from what I've read basically ARPA bought a bunch because the vietnamese were too small and then it snowballed from there. so in a world where we didn't go into vietnam we probably would have ended up with something like an SA80 built from an arsenal project with too many requirements
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  1325. Garett Robichaux that'd be blasphemy
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  1326. ya but nylon 6-12 would have been a much better marketing catch for a shotgun
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  1327. "War's over chaps, time to build another complicated enfield! the yanks? So what that they have self-loading rifles, that's bloody unsportsman. Yes I know we're bankrupt, but..."
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  1328. you'd have fooled me if you told me it was 50+ years old, soviet, and had served in afghanistan
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  1329. ah the 30s, when a submachine gun with a bayonet makes sense somehow
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  1330. a big heavy service revolver does make sense for the 1950s books but also a browning hipower would have been more cutting edge
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