Ooooh baby:
First, what they are (i.e. via Gun Jesus, thankee Ian), and then one is brought back to life, with some shooty goodness at the end.
Of every sub-machine gun ever made, this might be the only one that could entice me to hassle with all the NFA bollocks.
Those wily Germans were thinking ahead. The MP40 predates both the STEN and the M-3 Grease Gun. đ
Me too. This is my Unicorn gun – the one that if I had a chance to buy one gun, at any price, it would be the one.
You can have one, Kim, for only $30,000 or so. I can’t swing that, but I have shot one; it’s lovely to shoot. The cyclic rate isn’t too high, which makes it quite controllable. It’s quite lovely to shoot, and of course it’s seen in every WWII movie you’ve ever seen. The Italian M38/42, BTW, might be even better, but doesn’t get the screen time the MP40 does. A Thompson, OTOH, is too heavy, too expensive to produce, and has a cyclic rate that is too fast; it wants to climb, even in the 20’s era furniture our local Tommy is made in.
The MP-40 is on my short list of dream guns mostly because of Hollywood. I try to avoid firearm information from that source, but in this case real gun experts also have trouble finding anything to really badmouth about it. There have been better sub-guns made since then and it wasn’t even really the best in its day, but there is general agreement that it was a good weapon that gave good service and has a great deal of historical significance.
We had a MP-40 in our safehouse when I lived in Kabul. It was fun to shoot but it would go through ammunition. If there was a way I could get one for the house I would. The closest I have is an AR pistol in 9mm. It is semi-auto but I can cycle that trigger to where it sounds like full auto.