very strange submachinegun: late WW2 prototype?
very strange submachinegun: late WW2 prototype?
The gun likes like a marriage between a MP43 and a MP40:
http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/ga ... 00/359.htm
Has anyone ever seen this smg before?
http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/ga ... 00/359.htm
Has anyone ever seen this smg before?
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I wonder if it ever had anything to do with the modern HK53 series... http://www.hkpro.com/hk53.htm
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That gun
That gun is up for Auction in the US.It is listed as a gun brought back by a GI at the end of WW II. The seller clames that it is a one of a kind German prototype. The seller clames that it is unknow since the vet who brought it back didn't show it to anyone. It is a very interesting gun and if it is real it will sell for a very good price.
Unknown SMG?
A totally unknown SMG? One that the gun-writers and researchers have missed for six decades? And brought back by a GI who was too shy to EVER show it to anyone?
Come on fellas, pull the other one. America - the Land of Unknown Guns. But of well-known gun-shysters! This is a fake.
Come on fellas, pull the other one. America - the Land of Unknown Guns. But of well-known gun-shysters! This is a fake.
That gun
The seller calls the gun a Sturmgewher 45. For a late war prototype it has a very good finish and looks to have some MP40 parts in it. The reluctance of the GI to show it may have to do with the fact that it was forbiden to bring such[full auto] weapons back. The GI supposedly registered it later with the ATF{a class 3 firearm,which makes it legal to buy by another class 3 holder}.As for it being real or fake I don't know,it look a little too well finished for a late war prototype.It also look a little like a Yugo m56[a MP40 mutant]. It is always possiable that it is real . By the way Var I remenber that some Aussie was trying to sell " Hitler's Pistol " a few years ago,that was a fake , so there are gun shysters everywhere.
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