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01:05 – Elbonian service handguns and training
06:16 – My contrarian views?
07:16 – Elbonian Gendarmerie SMG
08:39 – Difference between M2HB and ANM2
10:35 – Impact of the H&K G11 if it saw service?
G11 video: https://youtu.be/QGKcvM2Hh4g
13:34 – What is the future of NGSW?
14:40 – Why are StG44 magazines so much longer than AK magazines?
16:50 – If I could have any one SMG
M2 Hyde video: https://youtu.be/08_mAlLrbTI
18:48 – Self-regulating gas systems for sub/super cartridges?
Farquhar-Hill video: https://youtu.be/n8VtQt2EtJk
23:20 – Die Hard but it’s 1908. What does Hans carry?
26:17 – Did communist forces use the SKS in the Korean War?
Type 56: The Story of China’s Army: https://www.youtube.com/@Type56_Ordnance_Dept
35:00 – What were the MP1 through MP4?
36:48 – News on FAMAS clones and kits?
38:17 – Flechettes, caseless, and duplex ammo
41:10 – Why didn’t the P14/M1917 replace the SMLE and Springfield?
42:56 – 6mm ARC for future military use?
45:20 – Benefits of primer-actuated operating system
47:31 – Do American firearms laws get better, or only progressively worse?
49:56 – My preferences in gun safes
51:29 – Would I testify before Congress?
53:19 – Why are bullets jacketed?
55:55 – Future of HICAR
M2HB vs ANM2?
Simple.
HB= Hydraulic Buffer (not “Heavy Barrel”). Reduces RoF to about 450 R/M for ground or vehicle-mount use.
ANM2= Army/Navy M2. Flexible aircraft gun with no buffer to allow gun to fire at the natural cyclic rate of the Browning recoil-operated gun system, which in 12.7 x 99mm averaged 800 R/M, optimum for air to air use, for example by bomber gunners (B-17, B-24, etc.)
ANM3 was basically the same gun except modified for fixed mounts such as wing guns in “pursuits” such as P-40, P-51, P-47, Navy Wildcats and Hellcats and Marine Corsairs. ANM3 normally had pneumatic (air pressure canister) system for cocking.
It says a lot about John Moses Browning design, dating to 1917, that it is still in service worldwide today, having outlasted several guns that were supposed to replace it. (Anybody remember the “Dover Devil”?)
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eon
“(…)says a lot about John Moses Browning design, dating to 1917, that it is still in service(…)today(…)”
And do not overlook fact it does so, despite needing timing ritual and headspace ritual for working properly. Also despite being over 100 years old it somewhat manage to spawn offspring known as SNIPEX Laska K-2 https://modernfirearms.net/en/machineguns/ukraine-machineguns/snipex-laska-k-2-2/
To add to StG 44 mags – they had quite bad springs and in Yugoslav service they were supposed to be loaded with 24 rounds. Some had springs changed in the early ’60s but that was not considered worth it since it was considered that those would be replaced soon.
Bad spring design, or metallurgy, or both ?
Service Pistol — How about the pistols from Columbia that Ian had in an episode. They are not well known, but they seem like a solid basic pistol, with a few interesting features. I have to assume the Columbians have put them through rugged use without problems.
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/cordova-estandar-colombias-domestic-service-pistol/
Colombia with two Os. “Columbia” is the name of several institutions of higher learning and a sportswear brand.
Given conditions in New York, it would make good sense for Columbia to develop and issue service pistols to students and faculty.
Yup. They could fend off all those commie rats not paying exorbitant rents while shopping at affordable grocery stores. Oh the horrors of mild institutional change!
Tomorrow’s events will give a far more eloquent reply than aught I could here essay.
Tomorrow’s events will give a far harsher and more eloquent reply than aught I could here essay
Not to leave out one of North America’s larger river systems, the Columbia.
And a movie studio.
“(…)Self-regulating gas systems for sub/super cartridges?(…)”
Remington R12 / VersaMax Tactical https://modernfirearms.net/en/shotguns/u-s-a-shotguns/remington-r12-versamax-tactical-eng/ shotgun does include system for that purpose, however it works at different principle, as it is engaged/disengaged depending on ammunition length.
“(…)Flechettes, caseless, and duplex ammo(…)”
Multi-projectile cartridge was already adopted for service in VVS in 1985, namely 12,7 1СЛ and 12,7 1СЛТ https://gunrf.ru/rg_patron_12_7x107_ru.html for usage in YakB-12,7 mounted at Mi-24D5.
More recently СЦ-226 and СЦ-228 cartridge were developed for usage in automatic weapons mostly for firing at drones, see https://www.kalashnikov.ru/patrony-sts-226-228-s-tryohelementnymi-pulyami-v-podrobnostyah/
“(…)Why are bullets jacketed?(…)”
Beyond reasons of working with rifling, jacketed bullets provide greater penetration, which is useful when they are required to go through various barriers.
Also, at velocities over 1,500 F/S (460 M/S), even hard-cast lead/antimony alloy bullets tend to leave excessive lead deposits in the bore. Copper gas checks can alleviate this to some degree, but jacketing the bullet in a cupronickel alloy avoids it to begin with.
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I’ve taken a 20′ shipping container and finished the inside with a vault door and climate control for a gun vault, and love it.
Die Hard in 1908?
Hans would have a Parabellum, of course. Probably a brand-new P.08 in 9 x 19mm, with engraving and gold damascening.
https://americangoldenweapon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DSC2570-scaled.jpg
Rather like H.Beam Piper’s observation about Napoleon’s palace at Fontainebleau.
As for McClane, he’d probably have been carrying a Colt Military Model .38 ACP automatic. Just because.
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eon
Napoleon? A parvenu has gotta parvenu, know what I’m sayin’?
“Die Hard in 1908?
Hans would have a Parabellum, of course.(…)”
In said movie H&K P7 was used. H&K did not exist yet in 1908, but considering that their first automatic pistol https://modernfirearms.net/en/handguns/handguns-en/germany-semi-automatic-pistols/hk-4-eng/ was derived from Mauser HSc I would lean toward some Mauser-made fire-arm available in 1908.
Possibly C96 with distinctive look and a lot of area which could be used for engraving https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mauser-c96-b819a082a2084b8bbd5d2e9e85edbd93 or maybe older C78 with its’ distinctive cylinder https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/Mauser_C78
Yes, but Hans Gruber considered himself a “gentleman”. A “gentleman” would not carry a bulky Mauser C/96. Openly, it would look tacky. Concealed, it would spoil the hang of his bespoke suit.
In his mind, the P.08 would strike the proper balance between effectiveness and “elegance”.
Don’t forget, you’re talking about the late actor Alan Rickman (1946-2016) here, who made a career out of playing smarmy, snooty, Upper-Class-Twit-Of-The-Year-type professional assholes. (See also Quigley Down Under 1990.)
Yes, Hans would have looked down his patrician nose at Winston Churchill, for either his Boer War Mauser or the 1911 he carried in WW1.
Myself, at that time, I’d probably have opted for an FN M1903 Grande Modele in 9 x 20mm Browning. powerful enough to get the job done, but rather more easily drawn from concealment than the Colt or Parabellum.
Less bits sticking out here and there, you know.
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eon
Churchill was scarcely a working class lout. He had the Earl of Malborough for an ancestor, was born in Blenheim Palace no less, and preached democracy out of expediency. Prior to his apotheosis in WW2 he was seen as a political opportunist not an anti- aristocrat. Call him a chameleon with blue blood but never a common man. He might be considered as a matching bookend with FDR. Patricians who sought to maintain preeminent position by pursuing accomodation with those who had otherwise hated them
You make a good point about FDR and Churchill being both aristocratic elite members, and populist demagogues.
I think they’re both examples of the same sort of syndrome you see with a lot of modern “socialist/communist” agitators who come from the upper end of the social scale. The majority of those similarly aren’t all that good at “real life”, feel guilty for “running on easy mode”, and become hyper-critical of the status quo in an effort to assuage that guilt, which leads to the adoption of the whole package of socialist/communist belief system shibboleths.
There’s a common thread, there. Although, I think Churchill is arguably more of an opportunistic populist than anything, as well as a man just going along with the zeitgeist of the times. His views on India and the socialization of Britain were… Flexible.
Sad fact is, the sort of leader that will stand up there and tell you unpleasant things you don’t want to hear? Vanishingly rare, because people like that don’t wind up in charge, except by sheerest accident of history.
Wouldn’t “Comrade Doctor Professor Clower” be a little more precise?