UK Gangster Gun: The rare British MAC-10 with firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson.

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  • @vernonbender3384
    @vernonbender3384 5 місяців тому +103

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, Jonathan has the single best job in the world.

    • @moosemaimer
      @moosemaimer 5 місяців тому +42

      Right? Every time I try to burst-fire an SMG in a back room at the office people use hurtful words like "felony"

    • @greenyoshi777
      @greenyoshi777 5 місяців тому +16

      Well, certainly the best job in the WHOLE UK, anyway.

    • @stevenlord782
      @stevenlord782 5 місяців тому +3

      I honestly can't think of a better one.

    • @scottp4357
      @scottp4357 5 місяців тому +2

      The Royal Armouries is a genuinely awesome place too, I'd work there cleaning the toilets if I could afford to haha

    • @djd8305
      @djd8305 4 місяці тому

      @@moosemaimer Like that's the only reason😉

  • @marvindebot3264
    @marvindebot3264 5 місяців тому +343

    Just for a moment, I was expecting to see Jonathon slowly vanish behind a steadily increasing pile of Mac 10s.

    • @Rehteal
      @Rehteal 4 місяці тому +5

      The Ingram Model 10-foot wall

  • @mog398
    @mog398 5 місяців тому +373

    Last time I was this early, H&K had no affiliation with the SA80!

    • @pluemas
      @pluemas 5 місяців тому +31

      I might be wooshing here, but H&K were there from the start...
      They were consultants for the XL60s barrel lining (20 years before the A2), and we're owned by BA when they bought Enfield and took over production of the A1.

    • @johnsmith-jq1uc
      @johnsmith-jq1uc 5 місяців тому +17

      @@pluemas you are wooshing, but you did so with grace, you are pardoned

    • @pluemas
      @pluemas 5 місяців тому +8

      @@johnsmith-jq1uc bruv was so early he was here decades before this video was published.
      Just been squatting on a random youtube address, waiting.

    • @mog398
      @mog398 5 місяців тому +5

      @@pluemas Living here in peace for 40 years, I have! How would YOU like it if I came 'round your UA-cam address spoutin' off about submachine guns?!

    • @penguiin12
      @penguiin12 5 місяців тому +1

      fard balls

  • @DionStabber
    @DionStabber 5 місяців тому +393

    "Creative Gunsmithing" sounds like a feature Jonathan would be upset about them adding to the latest Call of Duty game

    • @rahjah6958
      @rahjah6958 5 місяців тому +7

      Creative gunsmithing, in a supposed military game?
      Or you mean the modern cod?

    • @allengordon6929
      @allengordon6929 5 місяців тому +10

      CoD is airsoft that used to try to pantomime being real.

    • @brokeandtired
      @brokeandtired 5 місяців тому +7

      As a late teenager I encountered more Mac 10/11 than I can care to admit. Guess I ran in dangerous circles as a young British man. Even saw a few Old Czech SMG's. Most common pistol was Browning Hi Points or the occasional PPK. PS.the little strap that usually hangs under the barrel is for your hand to go in...it helps you hold on to the gun.

    • @ulissedazante5748
      @ulissedazante5748 5 місяців тому +4

      In the United States, the equivalent company would be named "Bubba'ed inc."

    • @AmaraTheBarbarian
      @AmaraTheBarbarian 5 місяців тому

      Sounds to me like a manual/book drawn up by P.A. Luty's son.

  • @derekcole5593
    @derekcole5593 5 місяців тому +106

    In the mid 80s I was sent to a very discreet location in Derbyshire where I saw a couple of dozen of those lined up on a table ready to be worked on. I did ask my chaperone about them but he skillfully redirected my attention to a belt fed machine gun they were restoring for the Guards (it was either the first or very last one captured). I was then quickly handed the firearm Idbeen sent to pick up and bundled out of the door. That place has stuck in my mind for years. Often wondered what those Ingrams were doing there.

    • @SharpForceTrauma
      @SharpForceTrauma 5 місяців тому +21

      Are you admitting to an illicit arms deal in a youtube comments section or are you leaving out some very important details? 😂

    • @derekcole5593
      @derekcole5593 5 місяців тому +30

      @SharpForceTrauma LOL. Far from being illicit, I assure you. I was sent there to pick up a silenced bolt action rifle that had been seized by Customs and Excise. I assumed by the way the Government workshop was camouflaged, they didn't want its location known. Although, I bet Jonathan has been there.

    • @iainwilliam3187
      @iainwilliam3187 5 місяців тому +2

      Special air service were issued Mac-10s before they got the MP5. .

    • @SharpForceTrauma
      @SharpForceTrauma 5 місяців тому

      @@derekcole5593 Ahhh, I see lol

    • @titanuranus3095
      @titanuranus3095 4 місяці тому +3

      ​@@iainwilliam3187If they replace the MAC-10 with MP5, do they need twice as many?

  • @FlyboyHelosim
    @FlyboyHelosim 5 місяців тому +21

    I love how it looks like Jonathan is just test firing this thing in an office.

    • @stonedog5547
      @stonedog5547 5 місяців тому +1

      Thats because it is his 'Other Office'

  • @SteamGeezerUK
    @SteamGeezerUK 5 місяців тому +91

    As a minor note, the two piece takedown screw is known in other uses as a Chicago screw. They're often found in some types of bookbindings and also used to hold furniture together. Incidentally, I was loaned an airsoft MP5K for a film shoot and the retaining pins for the backplate were missing, so I actually used two Chicago screws to replace them... 😁

    • @Matt-md5yt
      @Matt-md5yt 5 місяців тому +1

      nice.

    • @matthewkeith8605
      @matthewkeith8605 5 місяців тому +6

      Thank you! My nephew has managed to lose one of the screws from his airsoft MP5K (because teenage boy), so this is relevant to my interests.

    • @MrSloika
      @MrSloika 5 місяців тому +7

      Such screws are also commonly used on leather goods, such as holsters.

    • @kfellens
      @kfellens 5 місяців тому +6

      Also known as sex bolts.

    • @Dan-be7iu
      @Dan-be7iu 5 місяців тому +8

      ​@@matthewkeith8605 if ur looking for it in a hardware store (at least in US) more likely to b known as a sexbolt.

  • @kennedyfellows-coffey2257
    @kennedyfellows-coffey2257 5 місяців тому +38

    It’s always a treat when we get to see Jonathan getting to shoot a gun.

    • @Jreb1865
      @Jreb1865 5 місяців тому +5

      It's a shame most law abiding British citizens are denied the same "treat"...

    • @FlyboyHelosim
      @FlyboyHelosim 5 місяців тому +3

      Even if he always looks oddly out of place and uncomfortable.

    • @vihaanreyansh6244
      @vihaanreyansh6244 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Jreb1865 Yep, only cops and criminals allowed guns like these now.

    • @wurfyy
      @wurfyy Місяць тому

      @@vihaanreyansh6244 I mean, strictly speaking criminals aren't "allowed" to have these, per se. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the cops turn a blind eye to certain individuals having such things, in light of recent events.

    • @vihaanreyansh6244
      @vihaanreyansh6244 Місяць тому

      @@wurfyy It is correct is you consider how you qualify illicit ownership of the item (if we discount police ownership); if you do not possess such an item you are not yet a criminal, once you possess the item you become a criminal. Short of committing other crimes, it is impossible to become a criminal until you possess the item, vis-à-vis only criminals are allowed to possess them.

  • @davem2369
    @davem2369 5 місяців тому +20

    There was one other user of the MAC10 in the UK in the '70s and '80s. The Headquarters Mobile Support Unit of the RUC and maybe some of its predecessors seem to have had some during that period in addition to their Ruger AC556s and Sterlings.

    • @sheikhnasrullah6536
      @sheikhnasrullah6536 9 днів тому

      Yes and also 14th intelligence operators used them as anti PIRA ambush car guns.
      So if the were stopped at an IVCP - illegal vehicle checkpoint
      The operators could press the weapon against the inside of their door and fire.
      Causing instant shock & confusion to the terrorists

  • @Big-Jow
    @Big-Jow 5 місяців тому +12

    Can I just say that I am delighted and amazed at the advancement of the quality in this series. The lighting and sound in particular is a huge improvement over the start of the series and feels so professional that it truly makes these a joy to watch, especially with Jonathan's more relaxed and enthusiastic presentation as he has gotten more comfortable being on camera. Props to the staff and Jonathan for the continued improvement in quality of these c:

  • @wittsullivan8130
    @wittsullivan8130 5 місяців тому +33

    I read an article that said after the SAS did familiarization and training with the Ingram M-10, they dug a pit at the end of the firing range and buried them.

    • @curtisevans8413
      @curtisevans8413 5 місяців тому +6

      As they should. I would rather have a standard pistol than one of those death traps.

    • @de629
      @de629 5 місяців тому +13

      ​@@curtisevans8413They would come in handy now to take care of the immigration problem.

    • @blackcountryme
      @blackcountryme 5 місяців тому +5

      They built houses in the old S.A.S HQ in Hereford. let's hope they weren't unearthed

  • @culshie
    @culshie 5 місяців тому +54

    There was a tale from the early seventies that Corp of Signals drivers in N.I. (S.D.S. essentially Military Postmen) who drove around in Civvies in Austin/Morris 1800's were being equipped with these and even an anecdote about one shooting their way out of an ambush in the Creggan Area of L/Derry probably Squaddy B.S. but a lot of non standard stuff went on then.

    • @jonathanferguson1211
      @jonathanferguson1211 5 місяців тому +29

      I wouldn't rule it out. Even as I said that SF were the only user I was thinking "should I say "official user"?....."

    • @tdolan500
      @tdolan500 5 місяців тому +1

      It does sound like a normal squaddy tale

    • @tadget0566
      @tadget0566 5 місяців тому

      Maybe the informer handlers (can’t remember the name) carried MP 5Ks in the late 80’s early 90’s also some of the close protection guys carried HK 53’s (really cool looking MP 5’s in 5.56)

    • @PMCKnivesAndTools
      @PMCKnivesAndTools 5 місяців тому +8

      I met a tank crew fella in Cyprus who told me he previously did plain clothes green army ops in NI and under the seat of their car they'd have a pistol, a shotgun and a mac-10.

    • @MrPolicekarim
      @MrPolicekarim 5 місяців тому +4

      @@jonathanferguson1211 Units like the 14 Intelligence Company, as well as the Forces Research Unit, used these. Also, I heard of 1 SBS guy using 1 to protect Lord Mountbatten. So the RMP bodyguards could have used it.

  • @mikethurman3147
    @mikethurman3147 5 місяців тому +17

    If you and Ian did "A History of Improvised, Covert, and Criminal Small Arms".
    I'd buy the 1st copy off of your Kickstarter offer.

  • @Goc4ever
    @Goc4ever 5 місяців тому +13

    This was a very fascinating history about one of the most infamous and probably revived SMGS in the US in British hands, it's just like the Agram 2000. Thank you for providing us with this fantastic explanation of the MAC-10 Jonathan.

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 5 місяців тому +139

    With all the phone booths in the UK, I can see why the MAC-10 is favored there.

    • @ErwinPommel
      @ErwinPommel 5 місяців тому +31

      I only know of one remaining phone booth in my town. I even saw it being used once. As a toilet.

    • @TC2290-wh5cb
      @TC2290-wh5cb 5 місяців тому +49

      Are you still in 1987?

    • @Namkify
      @Namkify 5 місяців тому

      @@TC2290-wh5cb If you ever traveled a bit further, you'll know that your phone battery isnt the most reliable thing

    • @josedorsaith5261
      @josedorsaith5261 5 місяців тому +21

      ​@@ErwinPommel
      Last one I saw was covered in ads for escorts

    • @samuelgarrod8327
      @samuelgarrod8327 5 місяців тому +5

      There are NONE in my hometown so....

  • @dansharpe2364
    @dansharpe2364 5 місяців тому +148

    In a UK gangster movie Ray Winstone would yell "you fucked with Ferguson? You stupid fuckers, you don't fuck with Ferguson, he's the fucking Gun Daddy!"

    • @David-c3s4q
      @David-c3s4q 5 місяців тому +8

      "Why are you swearing, I'm not swearing"

    • @araw540
      @araw540 5 місяців тому +18

      Johnathan Ferguson is fucking gun daddy even in the US.

    • @Getpojke
      @Getpojke 5 місяців тому +9

      Anytime I think of Ray Winston with a gun I remember that brilliantly funny "Fix Bayonets!" scene in Love, Honour & Obey (2000). I laugh like a drain every-time I see it.

    • @dansharpe2364
      @dansharpe2364 5 місяців тому +3

      @@Getpojke it's superb.

    • @crktritual
      @crktritual 5 місяців тому +3

      John “The Mac” Ferguson has Desert Eagle .50 written down the side of his MAC-10

  • @AbbyNormL
    @AbbyNormL 5 місяців тому +11

    I am fortunate enough to live in America and own a Cobray M11/9 submachine gun which is the 9mm version of the MAC-10. With a 1200 round per minute cyclic rate, it is a true bullet hose. If you add a barrel extension w/ foregrip, you can greatly improve the controllability. I think using an Uzi grip w/ Uzi magazines is a brilliant idea. I own an IMI Uzi and the magazines are far sturdier than those for the M11/9, which are notorious for frequent feed jams. You can also replace the metal wire stock with an AR-15 6-position collapsable stock.

    • @Wayzor_
      @Wayzor_ 5 місяців тому +2

      You're speaking Greek to them.

    • @stevenbobbybills
      @stevenbobbybills 5 місяців тому +2

      It's not the 9mm version of the MAC-10, those were still MAC-10s, just like the .45 ACP models. It's more of an altered, elongated version of the MAC M11, or colloqually MAC-11, that was produced by Cobray after MAC ceased to operate. Hence, the M11/9 name; like the M11, but redesigned around the more powerful 9×19mm compared to the .380 ACP of the base design.

    • @AbbyNormL
      @AbbyNormL 5 місяців тому +1

      @@stevenbobbybills Yes, I know that. It calling it a 9mm version of the MAC-10 merely simplifies describing things. Most people cannot tell a MAC-10 from an UZI.

    • @dougerrohmer
      @dougerrohmer 5 місяців тому +2

      Each to his own. I am fortunate enough to live somewhere where people don't own this, or AR15's or even 1911's or heaven forbid "collectors" anti-tank guns. And if the kiddies don't come home from school, it's because they went to play at their mates' houses.

    • @stevenbobbybills
      @stevenbobbybills 5 місяців тому +4

      @@dougerrohmer I don't live in the United States either, but really, what do you get out of this? It's childish.

  • @cho4d
    @cho4d 3 місяці тому +2

    i just love you you keep reaching down and picking up more and more it's almost comedic

  • @searle_harbour
    @searle_harbour 5 місяців тому +4

    Did not expect shooting it in the first 10 secs, what an iconic firearm

  • @druggedoutpennokio9699
    @druggedoutpennokio9699 5 місяців тому +3

    I wish you did a sub series on guns like this because you have that connection with police especially if you brought in officers comfortable with talking about the case

  • @stujo718
    @stujo718 5 місяців тому +9

    Same iconic “wardrobe” no matter what weapon he’s firing….legend.

  • @TheFedgog
    @TheFedgog 5 місяців тому +5

    Watching Johnathan Ferguson Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries™ Museum in the UK Which Houses a Collection of Thousands of Iconic Weapons From Throughout History actually firing a weapon has such a James Bond feel to it

    • @MrDeaz
      @MrDeaz 5 місяців тому +1

      He would be an awesome Q

  • @runlarryrun77
    @runlarryrun77 5 місяців тому +11

    Saw one of these on a magnet fishing video a few years back, came up rusted beyond use from a canal. They still handed it in though. They thought they had an Uzi but I could see it was some kind of Ingram body with an Uzi grip, so I did a bit of research.
    I was quite surprised to find out they were made in Tunbridge Wells. I was born there & live in the area still. Hardly anyone around here had any idea these were being made here, even during the production run it wasn't widely known.

    • @err4071
      @err4071 5 місяців тому +1

      Yes Gareth bryer pulled one out a few years back from Enfield Lock.

  • @blakemadigan9925
    @blakemadigan9925 5 місяців тому +2

    I had a JAWS MAC10 that was a blast to shoot. The factory upper was ridiculously fast and replaced it with a slow fire upper which made it more enjoyable to shoot and with the can on it it was a great gun to shoot.
    The Mac Man book is also a great read about the history of the gun

  • @ollieisaninja
    @ollieisaninja 5 місяців тому +20

    Thanks for making a video from this perspective, the tone set was very appropriate for the subject. The criminal (mis)use of firearms, their control and the response to it in the UK is fascinating. I saw a program some years ago about a consignment of Russian 10mm tear gas guns that were imported through the Czech Republic and converted inside the UK. It described their origins, transport and some cases they we used in around the country. The awareness and intelligence the Police have of illegal firearms is thankfully incredible which in turn makes them rare and precious to the dangerous criminals who are willing to use them.

    • @jonathanferguson1211
      @jonathanferguson1211 5 місяців тому +13

      Thank you! It's a difficult line to tread but hopefully I managed it.

  • @lawrencemartin1113
    @lawrencemartin1113 5 місяців тому +13

    I live locally to T-Wells and discovered this story fairly recently. This was a fascinating addition to what I had learned. Interestingly, there used to be a very good firearms manufacturer based just up the road in Tonbridge, called RPA. They made, among many other fascinating products, good target rifles ( the Canadian Cadet team were issued with them in amazing coloured Canadian flag stocks!) and a few hunting rifles. They were also developing some serious military and security forces style weaponry. I was fortunate enough to go on a factory tour with a load of students from our school shooting club and we were shown several extraordinary firearms. One was a .50 cal rifle with a Massive moderator on it, which when stood up on its stock, made it look like a lamp post!! It was huge.
    Do you have any of their stuff in the collection I wonder? It would be interesting to see if you do.

    • @alun7006
      @alun7006 5 місяців тому +1

      If it ever existed, the Pattern Room probably has one.

    • @someduckwithanultimax6549
      @someduckwithanultimax6549 4 місяці тому +1

      RPA are still going (under the name RPA International), but they're located in Warwickshire nowadays. Their 'Rangemaster' sniper rifle is in service with a few small nations and forces, and the Quadlock and Quadlite target rifles are popular favourites in the precision shooting world.

    • @lawrencemartin1113
      @lawrencemartin1113 4 місяці тому +1

      @@someduckwithanultimax6549 Thank you so much for the informative reply! Much appreciated. I have very fond memories of being shown around their Tonbridge facility several years ago now. We took a bunch Cadets from Tonbridge School, where I helped run the shooting club for many years. The boys thought Christmas had come early! Eyes on stalks. Very funny. The .50 cal rifle we were shown was something else!! I remember it being very heavy and that huge moderator on the end was insane!
      The other thing we were shown was a version of a covert handgun holder that used a small TV screen and camera for aiming and the gun clamped into the front section with a left and right moveable hinge. It was designed to shoot around corners without exposing the shooter to direct gunfire! Based on an Israeli design but I believe being updated and improved for UK covert work. Very clever if odd! It had a length adjustable skeleton stock and pistol grip and I think was adaptable for different makes of hand gun. I seem to recall the one we saw had a Glock 17 fitted.
      Glad they are still in business. The MD was a nice man who wanted to help the school shooting team, but despite trying to produce a very competitive discount, our budget wouldn't stretch to their rifles and we were not able to use any other rifles in cadet comps other than the good old Parker Hale TR's.....still being used to this day. We would have LOVED to have RPA rifles!! The Canadian team did and still do I believe. Thanks again. 😊👍🏻

    • @someduckwithanultimax6549
      @someduckwithanultimax6549 4 місяці тому +1

      @@lawrencemartin1113 RPA's target rifle is based on the SWING four-lug action - I use a Paramount TR, from the 90s, with the same basic design but a slightly older example and not quite as fancy. RPA really are at the top of the field, alongside G+E in Switzerland, and their sights in particular are regarded by many as the best on the market!
      I have seen a few of the more expensive public school shooting teams equipped with four-lug actions (Swings, Paramounts and RPAs) and they easily outshoot the CTRs (which were never great designs but are nowadays thoroughly obsolete as well as out of production), but, as you say, they can't use those for cadet competitions.
      If money were no object, I'd probably use an RPA myself, but as it stands I'm happy with what I can afford to shoot!

    • @lawrencemartin1113
      @lawrencemartin1113 4 місяці тому

      ​​@@someduckwithanultimax6549Ha! The club owns two SWING TR's and a rather old but perfectly serviceable Paramount as well! My predecessor owned these rifles and clearly had struck up a relationship with the MD at RPA! He used them for F Class at Bisley, as well as stuff on Century out to 600.
      I now understand the link through your info....thanks again!
      Despite running the club and attending countless Ashburton trips over the 34 years in the job, my own shooting interests tend towards stalking and with small bore stuff, pest control and small game. (Alongside a lot of clay shooting!!) I still support the club part time and hugely enjoy coaching and seeing the boys progress from having never fired a rifle, through to excellent marksmen over their time with us. 😊

  • @stephenjdutton
    @stephenjdutton 5 місяців тому +12

    I have a (still) deactivated SF Firearms M-10. With a serial number not far from the example shown in this video but before being deactivated it was a selective fire version. It came with a nice carry case full of goodies such as spare magazines and the classic huge suppressor that because of its external appearance prompted the militaria dealer I got it from to say to me "Hey Steve, do you want to buy a laptop?"

    • @Serbokrat
      @Serbokrat 5 місяців тому +5

      Perhaps he said that because it's a Mac :)

    • @markrainford1219
      @markrainford1219 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Serbokrat 😁

    • @sheikhnasrullah6536
      @sheikhnasrullah6536 9 днів тому

      You want to sell it?
      Couple of grand for you if you do.

    • @stephenjdutton
      @stephenjdutton 9 днів тому

      @@sheikhnasrullah6536 Thanks for the offer but I'd like to hang onto it. Besides, it's an old spec UK deact so while I can still own it I can't sell it.

  • @Thesausagemonkey
    @Thesausagemonkey 5 місяців тому +5

    I emailed and requested a MAC 10 edition show... Hurrah! Thank you Jonathan 🍻

  • @kbjerke
    @kbjerke 5 місяців тому +5

    So much fun in such a tiny package!! Thanks for the video, Jonathan!

  • @svetlovska
    @svetlovska День тому

    “Blank firers don’t have the groove.” True. So true.

  • @DRob-zj1ld
    @DRob-zj1ld 5 місяців тому +2

    Brilliant video Jonathan. Really enjoyed learning about the criminal aspect too. Would be great if you could cover more stories such as this.

  • @JD-tn5lz
    @JD-tn5lz 5 місяців тому +34

    Nothing so Brit as seeing a well-manicured someone wearing a suit jacket and firing an SMG.

    • @jonathanferguson1211
      @jonathanferguson1211 5 місяців тому +23

      Ha, probably true, although I haven't had a manicure in my life - just cushy civilian jobs :)

    • @MrSloika
      @MrSloika 5 місяців тому +2

      @@jonathanferguson1211 I'm curious as to where you acquired this firearms knowledge. Were you in the police or military?

    • @jonathanferguson1211
      @jonathanferguson1211 5 місяців тому +10

      @@MrSloika Nope. I daresay no-one becomes a firearms specialist in the police or the military, although it's a great place to start and provides practical experience that I have little of (but then most firearms historians and museum people lack that background because they chose a different career path). I learned the same way as most specialists - simply by examining a LOT of guns, reading a lot of primary and secondary sources, and learning a lot from researchers, curators and collectors more knowledgeable than myself.

  • @jamesmatthews291
    @jamesmatthews291 5 місяців тому +6

    Seeing the words 'Tunbridge Wells' on the side of any weapon, let alone a MAC-10! 🤯

    • @Frank_Nemo
      @Frank_Nemo 5 місяців тому

      Kent and East Sussex have always had a less respectable darker side. Interestingly, Tunbridge Wells lies on the borders of both. To this day, the Kent/Sussex border stone can be seen on the pavement outside the Charles the Martyr church, by the Pantiles.

  • @robk113
    @robk113 2 місяці тому

    I could listen to this fella for hours. So learned and interesting. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  • @keithrushforth4019
    @keithrushforth4019 5 місяців тому +2

    On the subject of underground gunsmiths I'd be really interested a video about the guns made by Philip Luty.

  • @Perspari
    @Perspari 5 місяців тому +2

    Amazing, thank you for making such a brilliantly engaging video, can't wait to see more!

  • @ReprobiCrucesignati
    @ReprobiCrucesignati 5 місяців тому +17

    "What is this weapon?"
    AHEM...
    An excellent lesson on finger control

    • @coobk
      @coobk 5 місяців тому +2

      its an angry box spewing lead

    • @abcpea
      @abcpea 5 місяців тому +1

      It's supposed to have the silencer fitted

  • @SnakePlissken-wt6sc
    @SnakePlissken-wt6sc 4 місяці тому

    There is a similar variant of Ingram bolt available on the market for the last couple decades. It has a groove cut in for the extractor and uses a newer claw style extractor. The difference is that it’s located at the center of the bolt, not all the way at the top like this one.

  • @snowflakemelter1172
    @snowflakemelter1172 5 місяців тому +5

    That's the type i owned around 1995 , this is the first time I've ever seen one since, I don't remember the Uzi grip though.

  • @TheDAWinz
    @TheDAWinz 5 місяців тому +2

    Fantastic video, the MAC-10 is really a icon of the 80s and 90s, and it's history in British use is fascinating to learn about!

    • @MrSloika
      @MrSloika 5 місяців тому

      Makes me think of Miami Vice. Speaking of Miami Vice, I'd like to see a video about the Bren Ten.

  • @marflfx
    @marflfx 5 місяців тому +3

    Don't know if you read your comments, but YT channel Brandon Herrera recently got to fire and malfunction a Gyrojet with ultra slow motion. It is an amazing watch and concept for a gun. Thanks for the content here and via GameSpot :)

  • @NSGrendel
    @NSGrendel 4 місяці тому

    To quote Who Dares Wins, "LIVE BASTARDS! Dead soldiers." Always clear your corners.
    I know this gun because of Lewis Collins, 80s drug wars and Cyperpunk 2013. Thank you for an in depth review of one of the pop culture weapons of my childhood.

  • @chrisbrent7487
    @chrisbrent7487 5 місяців тому

    There was a version of the Leader that used UZI magazines too. I am only aware of a few examples being made before they folded after the events of '96. One is definitely in the hands of a movie armorer here as it was in a B grade movie made a few years ago here. Though being a carbine, the UZI mags loaded into a magwell forward of the grip into the base of the receiver.

  • @sammni
    @sammni 5 місяців тому +1

    Have you guys got "The Defender" from Northern Ireland during the troubles.....
    Apparently two engineers had the drawings to the UZI and they were trying to make them in their garden shed.
    They serialized them and it was I guess considered the best made homemade gun

  • @thegael1996
    @thegael1996 5 місяців тому +6

    I remember seeing an article from the mid 70s of Official IRA members posing with a MAC-10 they had managed to capture from British undercover forces in Belfast.

  • @err4071
    @err4071 5 місяців тому +1

    There's a guy on youtube called gareth bryer who has a magnet
    fishing youtube channel. On one of his video's he pulled out
    one of those Mac 10's with the UZI grip conversions, it was
    pulled out of enfield lock in London allong with the magazine
    and 2 knives.

  • @zoiders
    @zoiders 5 місяців тому +9

    That shoulder stock seems to be from a Leader Dynamics assault rifle made in Australia. Is that where they sourced them? Edit - watched to end, yes it is!

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine 5 місяців тому +1

      I have seen pictures of one of these with the Choate folding plastic stock you'd see on the MP5K's "PDW" models.

    • @zoiders
      @zoiders 5 місяців тому +2

      @@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Choate used that folder on quite a few weapons before the PDW.

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@zoiders That's probably true, but I haven't seen it anywhere else but as an MP5 or other H&K stock, and that one for the British MAC. Do you have any examples? Genuinely interested.
      The other closest thing I can think of is that plastic stock-set for the SKS by Combat Exchange, and the folder is similar but not identical to the PDW stock. Looking at Choate's stocks for SKSs, Mini-14s, and M1 Carbines, they all look a bit different.

    • @zoiders
      @zoiders 5 місяців тому

      @@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I think you need to read the chapter catalogue then.

  • @BeltFeed
    @BeltFeed 5 місяців тому +1

    Stock is actually not a Dealer Dynamics T2Mk5 stock. Those are marked "Leader" on the rubber butt plate. It is a stock of an Australian Automatic Arms SAR or SAC, these have no markings on the butt. Other than the markings they are identical - hence your confusion.

  • @Mario_bland
    @Mario_bland 5 місяців тому +2

    Johnathan ferguson is about to rush b on the eco round. Also holding on to that strap seems so scary

  • @Jesses001
    @Jesses001 5 місяців тому +2

    A lot of people consider this design as not vert successful as it was not used in large amounts by militaries. Due to the simple design, I find it a very successful design. About 20 years ago I remember someone was making a new version called the VMAC. All new construction. In the US civilian market, Masterpiece Arms keeps putting out new ones as well, including it in 5.7mm. This design just keeps coming back over and over.

    • @MrSloika
      @MrSloika 5 місяців тому +1

      Yes, it keeps coming back..like an antibiotic resistant social disease.

    • @Jesses001
      @Jesses001 5 місяців тому +1

      @@MrSloika Ha, I am sure it is just because it is simple and can function with a loss quality tolerance.

  • @BudGreene87
    @BudGreene87 5 місяців тому +1

    Great video, there’s not enough out there about these legendary guns. That is a very early gun he’s shooting, 71-72 Powder springs gun. Edit: VERY happy to hear the MACMAN book plugged in this video. If you are even remotely interested in the MAC, that book is a must have. Even if you just like LOOKING at these guns, it’s full of so many great pictures. Highly recommended book!! All of Franks books are great.
    There are no other variants with the micro Uzi grip, but there are many M10s with aftermarket Uzi magwells, full size Uzi magwells, due to easier and lower priced availability of Uzi mags.
    Are you sure that semi gun is closed bolt?? You never racked the action.. the presence of the sear pin, despite lack of a selector switch.. and that sliding safety leads me to believe it is an open bolt semi auto, Not Closed bolt

  • @leonardharverson8660
    @leonardharverson8660 4 місяці тому

    I have no interest in guns and I came across this video by chance. It’s made me realise how complex and challenging it is to know anything about guns or have subject expertise - so many tiny variations and technical details. Made a good job of presenting potentially very dull details into an engaging video. Thanks 🙏

  • @Mangachew
    @Mangachew 5 місяців тому

    I remember maybe 10 years ago an accomplice opening a boot and showing me me one of these. I was both in awe and terrified at the same time

  • @user-tn1vc1xz5d
    @user-tn1vc1xz5d 5 місяців тому +3

    The only Mac Attack I ever saw was in NZ.....it used to be a Big Mac meal with two Big Macs 😂😂
    I love all the technical details tho as always 😊😊

  • @eventingcrazy
    @eventingcrazy 5 місяців тому +10

    I seem to recall that the terrorists in the movie "Who Dares Wins" used the Ingram.

    • @StromBugSlayer
      @StromBugSlayer 5 місяців тому +1

      I always hark back to dozens of Miami Vice episodes.

    • @azzamat001
      @azzamat001 5 місяців тому +1

      Most did.
      The two main People's Lobby terrorists Frankie Leith (Judy Davis) and Rod Walker (John Duttine) at the embassy seige were armed with Beretta PM-12 SMGs, while all of the others at the embassy had MAC-10s.

  • @jas_bataille
    @jas_bataille 2 місяці тому

    This thing kitted up with a supressor, carbine-length barrel, rails and optic is just completely insane.

  • @colindorothymorison9668
    @colindorothymorison9668 5 місяців тому

    I had a go with a Mac 5 while on an armourers course at Bordon. We had to use the suppresor as a safety measure (something to hold on to). On my next course they had all been withdrawn with severe cracking so I was told. Good fun though and the quickest consumer of 9 mil I have ever experienced.

  • @Ste-_.
    @Ste-_. 5 місяців тому +1

    I’m more impressed by the Casio databank on your wrist, haven’t seen one of those since I traded mine in when the Casio tv remote control watch came out….ohhh the fun I had standing outside Dixons turning the volume right up on the tvs in the window 😂😂

    • @qwerty-cg7hv
      @qwerty-cg7hv Місяць тому

      Totally off topic but I found a Currys fairly recently where the PA system had a WiFi accessable i/p I gave it a few seconds of non controvercial music to test it out from my phone and then left it alone. Still working on a suitable play list for nextime. Could be fun 🙂

  • @Pigness7
    @Pigness7 5 місяців тому +5

    For a second in the intro I thought there was a second Jonathan behind him for a second.

    • @Matt-md5yt
      @Matt-md5yt 5 місяців тому

      seeing you here makes me think an mod might be in the works. so hi

    • @Pigness7
      @Pigness7 5 місяців тому +1

      @@Matt-md5yt we already made a mac what do you mean?

  • @SMichaelDeHart
    @SMichaelDeHart 5 місяців тому +13

    Only royals, military and "special people" in the UK get to fire this weapon. However, I've shot a couple versions at my local range (owned by another range member) in the United States. Fun shooting weapon. The gun grabbers here hate it!! 😂😂
    The 'West' Midland Firearms are now licensed to a company in my home state, in West Virginia. Theyre current building versions.

  • @AudieHolland
    @AudieHolland 5 місяців тому

    This is rather revealing. Up till now, I have only seen this weapon in movies and in Time Magazine in the late 1980s in an article about cheap available guns.

  • @hstwodrainage.1410
    @hstwodrainage.1410 5 місяців тому

    I have always wanted a collection of Macs.
    .380 9MM .45
    So Jonathan, as it is my birthday on 26th of this month you have just got time to post to me a selection of originals.
    Thank you in advance.

  • @jeffreyoldham55
    @jeffreyoldham55 5 місяців тому

    "Forensic footprint". I quite liked that term, Jonathan.

  • @sheikhnasrullah6536
    @sheikhnasrullah6536 9 днів тому

    One of the main issues regarding the illegal conversions was:
    A barrel in U.K. law does not become a barrel until a chamber is cut into the barrel. So it’s legal to buy 9mm rifled barrel then simply buy the equally legal chamber reamer to cut the chamber.
    Also a bullet is not a bullet in U.K. law until it’s assembled.
    So the cases, heads, powder, primers, press, auto primer tools are all legal to buy.
    A company called R.I.F.L.E
    Regional Instaturation Firearms Little Eaton was raided for supplying deactivated weapons alongside the equipment to re activate them.
    The owners were jailed.

  • @iLLeag7e
    @iLLeag7e 5 місяців тому

    John Ferguson shows up at the range in a SUIT like a BOSS. Looking sharp and dangerous, good sir

  • @bobbressi5414
    @bobbressi5414 2 місяці тому

    There is an excellent British film called The Final Option where both the MAC 10 and early MP5s are featured heavily.

    • @MrNellie65
      @MrNellie65 2 місяці тому

      That’s known as “Who Dares Wins” in the UK.

  • @PlasmaOne
    @PlasmaOne 5 місяців тому +1

    I would love to get a full 360 reference of these weapons. Would like to (and model them myself) see them in video games.

  • @ultrablue2
    @ultrablue2 5 місяців тому +4

    Jonathan and the BIG MAC ATTACK!

  • @SkipperMacky
    @SkipperMacky 5 місяців тому

    My mates got one of these.. insane pieces of kit.

  • @scottdoran3112
    @scottdoran3112 14 днів тому

    ...outstanding video, thanks for sharing.

  • @ChristopherMorris-fg8uj
    @ChristopherMorris-fg8uj 9 годин тому

    There are transferable Mac's with uzi mag wells here in the states.

  • @cloudycolacorp
    @cloudycolacorp 5 місяців тому

    The leader carbine is so cool. I remember them in the first matrix film

  • @JordanStevens-tw1xj
    @JordanStevens-tw1xj 5 місяців тому +1

    late 90's early 2000's these flooded london

  • @Tom_-
    @Tom_- 5 місяців тому

    The reloaded exhibition is great! Also Leeds is great. Give it a visit

  • @verfugbarkite
    @verfugbarkite 5 місяців тому

    Saw a picture drawing of the mac10 being used with that strap clenched in the fingers of the shooting hand. It was in some sort of 1980s sof style magazine/ or maybe one of those “SAS survival handbooks”.

  • @gazs7237
    @gazs7237 5 місяців тому +1

    Johnathan really does look like a British villain with all those mac10s Infront of him

  • @williestyle35
    @williestyle35 5 місяців тому

    Wow! Jonathan gets to fire one of the guns from the collection! And a Mac - 10 no less! Sweet

  • @penguixyt3246
    @penguixyt3246 3 місяці тому

    Kind of surprised that none of the UK M10 companies decided to just give the ban affected models a rechamber for .22lr and a slightly longer barrel, as with the solid stock and a longer barrel, that would've allowed them to keep selling in the UK post-ban without needing to deactivate, and also not put them out of the money and work already used to make the unsold guns.
    All in all though, interesting to see all these models.

  • @wowanimejoshua5149
    @wowanimejoshua5149 5 місяців тому

    Jonathan shooting a mac 10 in a suit is unbelievably proper of him

  • @cheesecrow81
    @cheesecrow81 5 місяців тому

    Wow, I had no idea that UK actually used these in military. Very cool.

  • @Getpojke
    @Getpojke 5 місяців тому +6

    It does seem incongruous that the British version of the MAC-10 is from the home of "Annoyed of Tunbridge Wells". I expect they wrote stiff letters to their MP & The Times.

    • @runlarryrun77
      @runlarryrun77 5 місяців тому +3

      No, they'd do that for shops that sold pellet guns or air rifles. To this day most people living there have no idea there was a factory making automatic weapons in one of the units on the industrial estate. It must have all been very low key.

    • @ZGryphon
      @ZGryphon 5 місяців тому +2

      "This is outrageous! I shall write to my MP." "You don't have an MP, Rick, you're an anarchist." "Then I shall write to the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen. 'Dear... Mister... Echo.'"

    • @F1ghteR41
      @F1ghteR41 5 місяців тому +2

      It is said that the original Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells was a retired colonel, I think this crowd was either in charge or among the owners.

    • @Getpojke
      @Getpojke 5 місяців тому +1

      @@ZGryphon Ah, someone else who grew up with excellent taste in comedy shows!👍😁

    • @goodnightvienna8511
      @goodnightvienna8511 Місяць тому

      a VERY STIFF LETTER. on CARDBOARD.

  • @AlphaGreyGhost
    @AlphaGreyGhost 5 місяців тому

    Living the dream, would love to have a job like Johnathan....

  • @TMFShooting
    @TMFShooting 5 місяців тому +1

    Wow Mac10 '' You've got a Great Job Jonathan 😌 Great Video 💯💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

  • @gunclubprez
    @gunclubprez 5 місяців тому +1

    Very interesting video. Btw any chance you'll put a Luty on display at the Royal Armories? I visited a couple years ago but didn't see any.

    • @FireballFoundry
      @FireballFoundry 5 місяців тому

      I assume that's on purpose so people don't go and take loads of photos and try and build one.

  • @aaron4820
    @aaron4820 5 місяців тому +12

    For basically the only civilian with full auto firearm access in the whole of the UK, he sure looks annoyed instead of excited when he gets to shoot these guns lol

    • @jonathanferguson1211
      @jonathanferguson1211 5 місяців тому +39

      Just concentrating so I don't cock anything up :) There are a fair number of Section 5 types out there other than me. Not many in the scheme of things but more than you might think.

    • @mjfan653
      @mjfan653 5 місяців тому +5

      @@jonathanferguson1211 I live in mainland europe, and Ive handled a bunch of mp40, pps43, ak47 etc full autos. given, europe is supposed to be anti gun, there sure are a lot of licensed, responsible civvie noisemakers out there.

    • @Rroff2
      @Rroff2 5 місяців тому +1

      Definitely not many with anything like regular access to full auto even with the licensing - I know a few who've got some nice toys i.e. one of my dad's friends owns farms in the south and an estate in Scotland and has managed to wrangle all kinds of stuff on their license, but nothing fully automatic.

    • @matthewkeith8605
      @matthewkeith8605 5 місяців тому +2

      @@jonathanferguson1211 I assumed it was the inherent unpleasantness of that particular gun. At least, it looks like a nasty gun to me.

    • @edwardscott3262
      @edwardscott3262 5 місяців тому +2

      ​​@@matthewkeith8605Mac 10s are like the fast food versions of submachine guns. It just looks good in pictures.
      Nothing about them is quite right. It's like someone tried to make a gun all bad and then succeeded beyond all their hopes and dreams.
      It's all sharp corners. It's all unergonomic. It's got bad sights, a bad trigger, bad safety, bad cocking setup, bad stock, bad I don't know what you would call it on a Mac but every other gun it's a cheek rest. On a Mac it's the damn thing in the way of you getting some kind of sight picture.
      Worse it feels like trying to guess what it's going to do next. Russian roulette with 6 loaded chambers. Will it try to shoot your hand off? Will it try to shoot the ceiling? Will it try to shoot the floor next? Which wall is it now trying to aim at? But hey maybe it will hit the target eventually.
      Which is all stuff you never want in a firearm. It's like they took everything good out and somehow just left the heavy and bad.

  • @33legion
    @33legion 20 годин тому

    3:34 "It's kind of inherently inaccurate, even if you're not a museum curator trying to shoot it."
    *Cuts to a clip of Johnathan shooting an M10 in full auto from the hip, and then a substandard grouping on a target.*
    Well yes, pretty much any gun you shoot full auto from the hip is going to be "inherently inaccurate." But if you switch to semi-auto and use the sights, it will be much more accurate, at least comparable to other SMGs with similar barrel length/ergonomics.
    Granted, the sights on an M10 aren't the greatest, but they're still perfectly useable. So it's not "inherently inaccurate" if you use it like other SMGs.

  • @georgebailey98
    @georgebailey98 5 місяців тому +9

    "What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than an hot dog, know what I mean?"

    • @mickymondo7463
      @mickymondo7463 5 місяців тому +1

      The late great Bob Hoskins, No Bob it's next Easter... Bob Hoskins in "The Wrong Good Friday"😂

    • @dylanmccallister6739
      @dylanmccallister6739 5 місяців тому

      I mean our engineers and scientists have delivered the world over already. Phones, refrigeration, atomic energy its not like hot dogs are our biggest achievement lmao 😂

  • @rosscollingwood5189
    @rosscollingwood5189 5 місяців тому

    Having once owned an actual Leader in semi automatic (sadly confiscated by John Howard in his great gun steal-back), I recognised that fixed stock immediately!

  • @DwarfElvishDiplomacy
    @DwarfElvishDiplomacy 5 місяців тому +5

    In germany guns like these are called lead sprinkler and its pretty accurate

    • @MrSloika
      @MrSloika 5 місяців тому +1

      In US Murica we have a similar phrase, "Bullet Hose".

  • @tonybeaumont8289
    @tonybeaumont8289 Місяць тому

    Jonathan has an amazing shooting scowl

  • @seymoarsalvage
    @seymoarsalvage 5 місяців тому +1

    Yank here, I've seen a few Mac-10/11 with Uzi grips/mags. Ironically the only time I shot a legit full-auto RPB-10, it had the Uzi conversion done. Note that I say conversion, as I don't think any company made a M10 style gun with it, besides yours of-course lol

  • @JRGray33
    @JRGray33 3 місяці тому

    Another very interesting and informative video review 👍🏾

  • @bradleyclark3031
    @bradleyclark3031 2 місяці тому

    When you're on the phone with a client and the guys in the offices next door are blasting away with their MAC-10 😂

  • @donwyoming1936
    @donwyoming1936 5 місяців тому

    Learned a lot I never knew about the MAC-10. 🤠

  • @newburger
    @newburger 5 місяців тому +1

    I have a question, can you chamer 45 ACP with that gun? But the gun is engraved with 9mm parabellum.
    So I'm a bit confused.

  • @aKalishnacough
    @aKalishnacough 5 місяців тому

    This host is awesome! Great info on a cool, weird version of the MAC 10.

  • @Matze-c1j
    @Matze-c1j 5 місяців тому +3

    That is a LOT of MAC-10s.
    Jonathan Ferguson, I dub thee "MAC Daddy"

  • @SpliXz_
    @SpliXz_ 3 дні тому

    Bro helps me so much to develop🙏

  • @Zach_D
    @Zach_D 5 місяців тому +1

    Jonathan is a gangster at heart

  • @garrybaldy327
    @garrybaldy327 3 місяці тому

    Warms my heart to know that when I visit the Royal Armouries, Jonathan is downstairs somewhere firing machine guns into cardboard boxes. Lucky bugger.