Johnston Model D1918

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3 comments to Johnston Model D1918

• Rivet

  May 29, 2012 at 8:10 am · Reply

  Huh. Doesn’t appear to have any finish on it.

• The Hundo

  November 3, 2012 at 11:03 am · Reply

  The Johnston was made to be a lightweight, high-capacity, high volume lead slinger, and the “radiator” is just a really huge heat sink to keep the tiny barrel from burning anything/anyone. Another novel idea was incorporating the muzzle device as part of the barrel shroud, making the rifle bark loudly at the enemy, but keeping noise down aft of the muzzle.

• Venny

  April 6, 2013 at 10:51 am · Reply

  There is a picture of Melvin Johnson and Isaac Newton Lewis, shooting a Lewis machine gun together in the book Johnson Rifles and Machine Guns by Bruce N. Canfield. Is it possible that this is an attempt to simplify the original Lewis machine gun.