Submachine Gun

[Hilldweller]

Someone who is 5'2" would be a smaller target than someone who is 6'2".

Easy, just use smaller bullets !!

 

[Hilldweller]

Been around long enough to have fired and/or trained with and/or trained people on:
Thompson M1928
Reising M50
Beretta M12
SW M76
HK MP5 (K, A2, A3, Navy, SD)

Best of them all was the MP5 which I used in SWAT ops.

Can’t compete very well with the above but now that we’re laundry listing the “fun” guns……

As I mentioned above the Thompson SMG was my first “fun” that I shot.

Next up was your standard AR15 circa 1973. Fun, but you could waste a mag pretty quickly on FA.

Then onto an UZI A-model in the ‘80’s. Heavy little beast. A bit awkward at all but close range. A open bolt design. Didn’t like the heavy bolt throw as it definitely threw off your first shot.

A Sten came next. Fun in a nostalgic way. Slow rate of fire but I think the spring was toasted. But another open bolt system.

 

[sweetgrass]

Enjoyed reading all the above. Several times a year I haul out my MP40 and rattle off a couple mags of 9mm. It's a bnz 41, all matching numbers even has the original black shoulder strap in place. I change out the original firing pin and recoil assembly before firing, never fire with original assembly in the gun. I fire only my own reloads.

 

[dbcolts]

Did someone mention Air America?

A high-school friend of mine, Kent Thomas....flew helicopters for Air America....I believe in Cambodia/Thailand. And later on for some No-Name Gov't Agency, in Borneo.

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[Retired W4]

A high-school friend of mine, Kent Thomas....flew helicopters for Air America....I believe in Cambodia/Thailand. And later on for some No-Name Gov't Agency, in Borneo.

I have couple friends who flew for AA after VN. I don't know Kent but there is a Kent R. Thomas listed in the VHPA directory from San Pedro, CA. He was a couple classes behind me in flight school. No unit listed. The Air America section shows a R.D. Thomas. I know of one other AA guy who is not listed the that section but he was in the very upper echelon of the company. I got the hat shown from him. He showed me a complete world wide roster of AA pilots but unfortunately I did not end up with it. It is possible Kent flew in Cambodia, as I did for 5th SFG/MACVSOG before the invasion and flew for the company outside SEA later. In that case he would not be listed in the VN section for AA.

I se you are from Huntington Beach, not far from San Pedro (Kent Thomas).

 

[vegasgunhand]

In 1980 I joined the U.S. Customs Service as a Customs Patrol Officer. At that time the USCS had so many different weapons systems in the field. In the San Francisco Office we had military surplus M-16A1s, M2 Carbines with paratrooper stocks, and even Winchester 30-30 rifles. Some offices had M-3 grease guns, HK 53's, and Armalite AR-18s.

In 1983 I opened the the Patrol Office in Reno, Nevada. Because of the desert working environment, I requested a large caliber rifle. I was sent two pre-1964 Winchester Model 70 rifles in 30-06.

I transferred to the Customs Air Operations Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There I was issued a Colt XM-177, and a Thompson M-1A submachinegun.

 

[CajunBass]

When I was in high school, one of my teachers, who had been a Marine in WW II would bring in his "stuff" about once a year when the talk turned to WW II. He had uniforms, helmets, captured flags, inert (I assume) grenades, a rifle and pistol or two and so on. Right in the middle of the "stuff" was a Sten Gun. I was gun geek even then, so I knew what it was. I never asked where he got it, or if it was "legal" or not. I knew enough to mind my own business, so I didn't have to be told to "Mind your own business."

 

[Drm50]

I’ve shot S&W 76, there were several floating around in RVn. Probably CIA or MACV , our battalion helicopter pilot scarfed one up in a trade.
S&W is missing the boat by not bring out semi version with legal barrel, or same in the Light Rifle of WW2. Have to be almost as cheap to squeeze out as M3s.