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Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Beretta 38/42 at the Range" video.
Even for a "simplified version" beautifully made. My father served in an independent artillery battalion in Italy (173rd Field Artillery). Made up of part of the 32nd Infantry's division artillery that got split off when the division went from a square to triangular formation. When in Italy they managed to pickup some intesting pieces of equipment. One time he said they got their hands on some of these. He said compared to the M3 Grease Guns they had the Barettas were a Caddilac compared to a Model T. He said it was very easy to shoot with your left hand just supporting the stock behind the magazine. A lot of people make fun of Italian manufacturing (1) but over the years they have produced some very good machinery. Excellent machinists and foundry skills. 1) I think a lot of it has to do with their automobiles. Properly cared for they drive great. Just a little too lightly built for they way most Americans treat their cars. Especially in the days before imports tipped Detroit a new one. At one time if you wanted to buy machinery in certain industries you went to certain countries if you wanted the best. The UK for printing presses. Germany or Switzerland for really high quality machine tools. Italy for textile machinery. The US for machining lines capable of putting out millions of specific parts over decades. Or high quality grinders and gear cutting machinery. Not that other countries weren't able to produce good machinery. But there is always somewhere that's just a little bit better than the rest of the world.
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Better than a really high cyclic rate of fire that gets the muzzle pointing at the sky.
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But aesthetics don't mean anything in its intended use. The only thing that matters is does it work and how many can we make. In that vein the Sten is is one of the most successful SMGs of the era.
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@ianmedford4855 When you have been around as long as they have you had better be good at what you do. Can you imagine if they built cars instead of FIAT or Alfa Romeo.
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@alangordon3283 Communist nations have built some very beautiful machines. Primarily in the aviation and marine worlds. Not because they sought an aesthetic but because of aer and hydrodynamics. As to the subject of this video. I'm surprised fashionable mafioso's never took up the Beretta just for looks.
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