Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

The HK33 is a very enjoyable rifle to fire for me at least-very controllable, nice cyclic rate. The HK53...not so much. Very violent.
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@gpheonix1 The German MachinenKarabinen were all carbines based on barrel length, not fitting any definition of rifles. Rifles typically had 24"-31.1" barrels. There were 24" barreled carbines even in the 1800s if the actions were short enough. The MKb42(H) had a 14" barrel. M1 Carbine has a 17.75" barrel. In the first half of the 20th Century, most 20" barreled long guns were considered carbines. We saw a shift in the 1950s with the 21" barrel FAL, 22" bbl M14, 17.7" bbl G3, 20" bbl AR-10, and 20" bbl AR-15 all referred to as "rifles". Especially with the flash hiders on the FAL and M14, they were long in overall length like a rifle, plus the bulky/ lengthy receivers of the FAL, G3, and AR-10 contributed to their overall lengths. An M1 Carbine is tiny compared to a G3, even though the M1 Carbine's barrel is longer. The AR-15 came from the Small Caliber High Velocity Rifle program, where several of the prototypes had longer barrels. One of the early AR-15 prototypes had a 22" barrel with a rather long flash hider. With the 20" barrel AR-15 and the original Type A-E stocks, they all present like little carbines, not traditional rifles. A more correct description of the M4 would be a Small Caliber High Velocity Carbine. It's also interesting to note that the Russians have never classified the AK or AKM as rifles, but just Avtomat Kalashnikovs, while their rifles have Vintovka in the designation, i.e. Vintovka Mosina, SVT, SVD, etc. Exceptions to this are the VAL and VSS, which of course have tiny little barrels with large suppressors. Their overall lengths are still in the carbine department.
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@bravo_cj No pistol caliber, no SMG: M1921 .45 ACP KP-31 9mm MP38 9mm MP40 9mm Sterling 9mm Sten 9mm PPSh-41 7.62x25 M3 .45 ACP Those are SMGs. Intermediate cartridges created a different class of weapons with the MachinenKarabiner, which should really be Select-Fire Carbine when looking at the MKb42, MP44/STG44, and Avtomat Kalashnikov.
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@bravo_cj I have avoided using that word in this discussion. Combat actions don't have a place in the nomenclature because I can use a weapon in the defense, while conducting Reconnaissance, the offense, and as a personal defense weapon.
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@oscarosullivan4513 The front sight base is the only common feature though. Everything else is quite different.
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@capcamouflage Another problem with the SKS was trying to shoot through firing ports in the BTR. AK solved that problem so you could use it as a firing port weapon while wearing equipment, which supposedly contributed to the exaggerated angle of the comb on the stock, unlike on the STG44. With the STG44, when you shoulder it, your face drops into a scallop on the comb and you have near-perfect sight picture. Not so with the first 3 AKs before the Modernization program with the AKM. AKM got a proper straight comb stock finally
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@MrBahjatt Yes, if we did a clean slate technical analysis and classification matrix, some interesting things rise to the surface. 1. Cartridge dimensions and performance 2. Barrel + muzzle device length 3. Action type 4. Feed mechanism 5. Fire Control Mechanism 6. Action length 7. Operating system 3 of the things that make the STG44 stand out from all the others are its fire control mechanism, rate of fire, and constant recoil system. It's really nothing like an AK or AR-15, even though we place it in the same category of weapons. Handling, ergonomics, and performance under fire are dramatically different with the STG44. Also, the 7.62x39 intermediate cartridge doesn't behave much like 5.56x45mm. Recoil, velocity, terminal performance, trajectory, and effective range are noticeably different in the soldier's hands, as is carrying a combat load for each. Even the 7.92x33mm with its larger case head, but shorter COL, is much easier to carry in magazines in pouches than the high tapered 7.62x39 and its cumbersome curved mags, with longer COL. They're both intermediate cartridges with practically the same performance, but minute differences in case design and COL scale into noticeable consequences for the individual soldier and his squad. I've maintained for years that 5.56x45mm and 5.45x39mm are Small Caliber High Velocity cartridges, which is at least a major subdivision within intermediate cartridges, if not another category of its own.
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@PBVader For .260 Rem and 6.5CM RLGS 22-24", last I recall was a .086" port, and those have way less bore volume than a .308 Win.
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@PBVader Bootleg chokes the gas through a rotational valve in the carrier.
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@PBVader As much of a fan of the AR-10 that I am, 6.5 Grendel kinda ruined AR-10s for me. I've been shooting Grendel since 2009, and they replicated like Gremlins.
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@0neDoomedSpaceMarine From all I've been able to gather, the Suomi Kp31 9mm SMG was used more like an LMG from a fixed position covering open terrain. Once a linear formation of Russians on skis ventured out into the open, they would be cut down systematically. The Kp31 is very easy to control since it is constant recoil principle, very heavy, and had barrels made by a British accurate rifle company. Really odd combo. The barrel is easy to quick-change as well with a lever that releases the shroud. Shroud slides off, barrel pulls right out. The action is very slick too. Muzzle doesn't really rise.
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There is no record of any discussion regarding firearm silencers/mufflers in the NFA proceedings of 1934. AG Homer Stille Cummings simply proposed them in the original draft legislation. During the debates about pistols, machineguns, and shotguns, suppressors were never once debated. We simply don't know why, or haven't uncovered any records that explain their inclusion in the NFA.
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@griftinggamer Yup. The vast majority of the extreme cold reliability was already built into the AR-15 inherently, and well-established at Fort Greeley Alaska.....in the 1960s. Diemaco did some other tweaks to the design to make them even more reliable in colder conditions that Finland never sees (-50˚). AR-15s are one of the most reliable assault rifle designs I’ve ever used in extreme cold, and I have many years of using them in Finnish winter conditions, to include shooting them in high volume. There isn’t any other weapon I would want in the Finnish winter.
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It's a criminal, unconstitutional act admitted as such by the man who proposed it, AG Homer Stille Cummings. He openly said during the NFA hearings that banning firearms is unconstitutional, so to avoid the law, he proposed a taxation of a right with a stamp that people would have to apply for and submit ID, photos, and fingerprints like a common criminal, to be processed by the Federal Government. The whole thing is unconstitutional and a fraud.
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@mtnbound2764 At the time, mobsters had already taken over huge portions of our government at multiple levels. The Prohibition years saw every major city, almost every Congressman and Senator, newly-created Federal agencies, and the FBI co-opted by organized crime. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, father of the NFA, was the DNC Chairman during the 1932 campaign season, who cheer-led for FDR in the primaries and general. His reward for his loyalty was AG of the US. J. Edgar Hoover was blackmailed by the Mafia to deny they even existed, and prevent the Bureau from investigating and prosecuting their bosses. NFA wasn't to fight crime, but to make the people weaker in the face of organized crime taking over more.
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For exercising a right on top of all that.
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It's simpler. There are literally organized crime syndicates who took over government, and they don't want their victims to be armed.
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@brandoninhofer6592 She refused to as I was growing up. She and my dad used it as a secret language to discuss finances and things they didn't want us to hear.
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Carbon-15 was doing well initially with sales. Bushmaster offered to buy the company, but the owner refused. Bushmaster then contacted Accusport, Ellett Brothers, and RSR Group ( 3 of the major firearms distributors of the time) and told them that if they carried Carbon-15, they would no longer carry Bushmaster. Bushmaster was the leading company for AR15 sales at the time (mid-1990s), and the 3 major distributors were making a killing selling Bushmaster AR15s. Professional Ordnance was then limited in its market opportunity, and the guns were known for cracking lowers, bolts breaking, and failures associated with early learning curves as well as the nature of polymer. Bushmaster came in after Professional Ordnance went under, and bought them for even less than the initial offering. They then manufactured an AR15-compatible Carbon-15 under the Bushmaster name and logo. Karma came around when Bushmaster sold out to Freedom Group, because Freedom Group basically gutted Bushmaster, shut down the Windham, Maine manufacturing, let the Bushmaster President/Owner go after 5 years, and retained the highly-valued Bushmaster name and logo (not that Bushmaster was a great AR15, but it had market recognition and sales that were excellent at the time). Freedom Group continued to logo AR15s made using DPMS and Remington parts at the Ilion, New York facility, which is why you see current lowers marked that way today, with "D" marked BCGs.
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@keithjurena9319 We had FN M16A2s in Infantry OSUT at Benning, then when I got to my first unit, they still had M16A1s but with A2 furniture. That was in 1994. We turned in our A1s in fall of 1995 and drew out new M16A2s. I preferred the M16A1 due to the weight, balance, trigger, S-S-A FCG, shorter length, and handling. That was active duty US Army, no Reserves or ANG. I went to Korea after that, where we had A2s, then came back to the US at Fort Lewis, and turned in our M16A2s in fall of 1997, grew out brand new M4s right before going to Panama for JOTC.
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