Having spent quite a long time yesterday exploring the origins of the Stemple/BRP STG-76, I figured I should take it out to the range. So, let’s see what sort of groups I can make with a bipod-mounted open bolt 9mm…
Bolt Action Rifles
RIA Premier Auction (Part II)
Continuing yesterday’s post, today I want to take a look at some of the long guns that jumped out at me while I was perusing the catalog for the RIA Premier Auction coming up in […]
Semiauto pistol
KrauseWerke .45ACP Luger at RIA
The story of the .45ACP Lugers is a bit complex, and widely misunderstood. What most people believe is that two such guns were made for US military testing, one was lost, and the other is […]
Reproduction
Slow Motion: .32ACP Baby Luger Malfunctions
Mike Krause of San Mateo, California makes some gorgeous reproduction Luger pistols, including copies of the extremely rare .32ACP “baby” Lugers. Unfortunately, we didn’t have much luck with this particular one on the range. Still, […]
does amazon do prime shipping with these?
Love the soumi stuff
Totally missed an opportunity here to “knock the star out of the target and win a prize!” like the county-fair shooting gallery game.
The Stemple is definitely using surplus Spanish Cetme furniture and not what HK produced for the G3.while similar there are obvious differences. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.-MpRjPsr4JCLpMobj1WeswHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1
‘Recreational sub-machine gun’ is an odd term. ‘Fishing hand grenades?’ ‘Personal carry grenade launcher?’ I DO get the straight to high-volume plinking idea, but purpose built just seems like another bizarre corner of the firearms industry.
“Personal carry grenade launcher?”
Do you mean Wurfkörper 361 LP http://www.inert-ord.net/ger03a/wkorp/index.html
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“…purpose built just seems like another bizarre corner of the firearms industry…”(С)
What’s so freaky about that?
This is not a service weapon. It’s “just for fun.”
Nobody imposes practically any special requirements on such devices except
1. This should work at least once a second.
2. It should be pleasant to use.
Everything else is idle speculation.
“(…)bizarre corner(…)”
Well, so what you say about active in U.S.A. Civil Air Patrol which do chased and attacked submarines during WW2
https://www.maxwell.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/1024853/civil-air-patrol-a-story-of-unique-service-and-selfless-sacrifice/
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Soumi drums, for when your shooting buddy complains his double G17 mag carrier is pulling his belt down.
I thought this was a forty-five caliber submachine gun. Are there other caliber options?
Likely not, as the ATF could possibly (and stupidly) accuse someone of marketing to home-grown terrorists. They are a case of lawful-stupid, as they’ve already attempted to arrest and charge antique collectors with the crime of gun-running on the premise that a warehouse of antique guns (ALL OF THE GUNS WERE CENTURY-OLD MUZZLELOADERS WITHOUT MODERN SERIAL MARKINGS) is actually some drug-cartel arsenal. Yes, this is mere exaggeration.
As Ian noted in the previous article, Stemple built these receivers for a .45, and BRP markets them in other calibers (mostly 9mm).
Here in the USA fully automatic weapons are toys for the well to do.
At least the legal ones are…
Who knows how many have turned their Glock into a machine pistol with a piece of wire coat hanger?