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

  1. 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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  2. I'd like to think Wauser arms were quite popular with the Elbonian National Police Agency
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  3. 30 years from now "Oh damn this was sporterised then desporterised, mark it down."
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  4. seems like in hindsight, 1939 was not the year to start rearming
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  5. "Welcome to forgotten... eh garage?"
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  6. "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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  7. the movie just used a sw .38 with a comically long barrel extension. THIS IS REAL
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  8. "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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  9. today you have flashlights, lasers, and foregrips, back then you had sight protectors and sight micrometers
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. Customer: "I need more daka!" Gunsmith: "Here's a knock rifle..." Customer:"Still more daka!" Gunsmith ......
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  13. he is a man of many hats and helms
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  14. bayonet on your pistol because even the officers are needed when luxembourg charges
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  15. 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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  16. "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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. love how ian massaged this, these aren't simply terrible guns, they're special terrible guns
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  28. hmmm Ian brings up a great point about accidentally obliterating protestors...
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  29. ww1 combat ranges weren't all that far away though in some regions.
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  30. 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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  31.  @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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  32.  @hubert3704  sure blame the leftists like usual
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  33. it ain't an 1800s carbine if your knife is shorter than the gun it goes on
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  34. heavy barrelled FAL, because the soldiers weren't complaining enough.
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  35. "Not all the normally serialized parts are serialized on french produced lugers" Ah well that's technically an improvement
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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39.  @51WCDodge  he's still not wrong, their naming convention was never particularly followed by their armorers
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  40. its like just stamping stars everywhere is a bad idea for revision control
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  41. 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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  42. "simple" minute of angle measurement
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45.  @alienvalentine  ya the cesnas in the AF museum recieved from the airforce only allegedly went to cambodia
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  46. revolvers in ww2 weren't that bad though and they had a bazillion ww1 revolvers kicking around
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  47. it is not french, just like Hercule Poirot, it is Belgian thankyouverymuch (still the same getup though)
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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50.  @smartacus88  the G11's case was some sort of polymer that combusted with the powder
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