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My Dad legally sent back 27 pistols he acquired from German soldiers or civilians that surrendered to his platoon. He arrived back in the States in mid July and went into a military hospital near his hometown. He kept expecting the crate to show up and it didn't. Inquiries to the Army showed it arrived at a depot in Indian Gap Pennsylvania and disappeared after that. What a shame that someone...probably a Stateside soldier...purloined those pistols, when my Dad acquired them honsetly in combat.
That happens a lot. A buddy of mine lost a bunch of pictures from Vietnam that some mail clerk probably showed off as his own. One of the books I read, I don't recall which one, described the combat soldiers going back to the rear and finding their duffle bags sliced open and various items missing.
Not all soldiers had a chance to get Lugers or Walthers, my father brought back a couple helmets and Mauser 98. Soldiers gambled and won and lost souvenirs. My uncle brought back two 1911s he secreted in boots. We found some dilapidated Thompsons in the M48 tanks we received in Vietnam.
My stepfather brought a Reising model 55 home from WWII. It was a very interesting piece and I grew up with it in the house. He passed away when I was eleven years old and later on, my mother's new husband turned it in to the Sanford Police Department in Florida because he hated guns. I would love to see it again, but I suspect it's long, long gone as I'm nearing sixty. Thanks for letting me see my old friend one more time, even if it's not the same one. I look forward to visiting your museum and own several of your current production rifles. Regards, Brett .
Great collection!! A military friend in Vietnam would disassemble any weapon he wanted to have when he got home. He mailed each piece of the disassembled gun back to the states and when he finally got home he reassembled them all and had a nice collection, some legal and some not so legal. Enjoyed your video!!!
You can tell MAC is loving every second of this interview. I don't think I've ever seen him talk so fast. Can't say I blame him. And It's truly amazing to see such a well documented and curated collection of historic firearms.
Reason for the Rising's lower capacity mags was those two ribs reduced bearing surface, by nature friction on the cartridges and made them feed far better. Also they give sand an area to play. You see this in sten mags with the brass rod conversions and even beretta as a modern example with the less intrusive m9a1 magazine rib.
I know an old veteran of the South Pacific theater who had brought home a 7 piece collection of Japanese officers knives and swords. Those things were awesome. Craftsmanship beyond compare. He died several years ago and I have no idea where those ended up. I pray the family has taken care of them as they are super rare.
I think my dad carried a Thompson in WW2. When the young was captured in Desert Storm I said she should be court martial for not keeping her weapon cleaned. He said he was with a captain one night and he saw a squad of Germans coming toward them. He said he would open up on them when they got to a certain point. He opened up and click the Thompson jammed. He threw it down and ran. He said he felt bad about leaving the captain until he jumped in a ditch and jumped on top the captain. One of the handful of stories he told.
This is awesome! I inherited a revolver my grandad brought back from WW2 with bring back papers. Now that he’s gone I’m really glad he kept the papers. It tells such a good story!
My Grandfather brought back an Arisaka Type 38 Carbine in 6.5 JAP. It’s awesome and lives in the safe with the book he wrote about his life and service in WW2.
I have a K -98, a P-08 DWM Luger serial # 0002 that are papered Bring Back weapons of my Grandpa's. I recently found out that the DWM Luger is in fact serial # 2 of the original DWM made Lugers and has a value estimated to be somewhere in the low 6 figures . The paperwork indicates my grandpa had it surrendered to him by a German Colonel after a brief fight with Germans defending a radar installation at a airfield outside of Frankfort
So the mention of reliability for the Reising was one of the reasons why they went with the 12 round single-stack magazines versus the original full capacity ones. Being double-stack but single-feed affected the reliability, along with them not being super sturdy. The simple fix was to add reinforcing ribs to the inside of the magazines, which in turn limited capacity, but it did help with some of the issues the gun had with malfunctions.
Aberdeen Proving Ground, I was a dependant child there in 1979 to 1982. Being a Kid me and my friends would get in trouble for crawling under the historical WW1 and WW2 tanks and going inside and move the turrets around by hand crank, HA HA HA. The MP's had fits over this. Sadly, I was there a few years back and there is almost nothing left. All closed up and most of the tanks are gone.
According to the 1981 book "An Illustrated Guide to Rifles and Submachine Guns" by Maj. Frederick Myatt, MC, S&W produced 2,000 copies of the Light Rifle, Model 1940 and they were all purchased by Great Britain and issued to the Royal Navy.
I believe only about 1000 were delivered and those were deemed unsuitable for issue, all but 5 were destroyed at the end of the war. The small number in collectors hands were from a group of just over 200 that were found in a S&W warehouse during the 1970s(?).
I took the family to surfside and we spent a week down there in SC … we loved it so much that we will be going down every year or at least thats the plan … myrtle beach area was just awesome, if this museum opens i will definitely go visit it next time i’m down there
On the Reisings the reason they came up with those crimped mags was so sand was less likely to make the magazines hang up. Similar to the sand cuts on a FAL bolt by making the walls of the magazine have less contact with the rounds and the follower the sand could be pushed out of the way. The french came up with the same thing for the MAT 49 bloke on the range has a video about the MAT 49 sand magazines
I am sure you are right about the rising single stack mags . When I deployed to OIF the double stack M9 mags didn't even need to get dusty and they would jam up - I have read that it had something to do with a batch of mags that were too well parkerized. Anyway I no longer trust double stack single feed mags and would much rather have one good single stack mag that I trust, than any number of high cap mags that may or may not be reliable. That .30 carbine reising looks like a good idea. If it had of been adopted it might have cost about 1/2 what a m1 carbine cost. A lot like the Cristobal carbine from Dominican republic.
G'day from Australia! Terrific video fellas! Absolutely fascinating to watch. I think the only SMG that Australia produced during WWII, was the Owen Gun for jungle warfare in Borneo and New Guinea. I had no idea that so many different weapons were developed, or at least prototyped by the US/Allies and Axis. Remarkable. The fact that you have paperwork that also provides insight into the history of the item and the soldier is amazing.
A lot of the odd bring backs are because all the guns had already been taken by other soldiers that got there first. It's the "Well, I gotta take something back" mentality. Some of the more prized bring backs then were also the .22s and shotguns because they just wanted a free rabbit hunting or dove hunting gun.
I have an Arisaka type 99 and the paperwork. Captured during the island fighting in the Pacific. Obviously the chrysanthemum is intact. I am missing the dust cover, but I have heard that most soldiers threw it away to eliminate the clanking noise from it. The right side of the front sight is broken on one end, when it dropped from the tree, after it's owner was shot, by our guys. The sight is still connected on the other end. I will not be replacing it.
Create a machine gun that we've been using since 1957? Yeah, it worked out phenomenally. Not to mention the mg42 was the foundation for what we now know as GPMG's
Wow, my grandpa whom served in North Africa would be so proud (at least I assume he would, he never spoke about the war). ...He recovered a WW1 bayonet from a German soldier, a real *nasty* super sharp-serrated sword kind of thing - I remember touching the teeth on it, & it was absolutely ready to destroy 80yrs later! I can't really remember, as I was very young, but I think he also brought back his M1 rifle. EDIT: Ian @ ForgottenWeapons needs to do a review of a few of these!
This is a fantastic video, well done with so much expertise and unique guns and how they came to the USA. I look forward to the upcoming videos and the museum!
The Smith & Wesson M1940 was designed for the British but it was not reliable and was a flop. In order to pay the British back for the all that R&D costs Smith & Wesson took its 38 K frame revolver design and chambered it in 38-200 for the British. These revolvers look like the American Victory models but they have a 5" barrel instead of a 4".
Either S&W didn't ask or the British didn't tell what kind of 9mm ammo they planned on using it was hot loaded SMG ammo that would blow the end cap off of the light rifles
I have a sword just like that. My grandad was in the 7th infantry for the duration. Mine is different in that it is damaged by what I think is shrapnel.
Keep in mind his AK47 T-shirt "Who needs a girlfriend". I must admit, when I was 17, I started going to Pennsylvania gun shows. An older friend of mine befriended an FFL dealer that would bring all his best toys to his 90 acre property. WHO NEEDS A GIRLFRIEND!
@@toynazi Skipping the 9mm. reloads we worked on all Friday night, across a pond (into the imbankment) with an automatic M10 and a huge wet suppressor and a laced leather cover( insulator wrap). You could hold it by the suppressor. Nah, no fun at all for a 17 year old guy.
The ridges in that .30 carbine reising probably was to reduce drag/friction on the bullets for reliability, this has been done with other magazines as well, reduction in capacity was probably just a side effect.
Interesting stuff. Our VFW has a Germen NCO dress sword, and a pair of binos from WWII. My son has a Mauser brought back from Italy by his grandpa's uncle.
Reisling indented the magazine to limit the rounds due to issues with jamming especially in sandy humid environments. The double stack worked fine when clean in police use, but it wasn't able to function in the pacific reliably. Limiting the rounds helped reduce issues and was introduced along with other quick fixes like stopping communal cleaning if the sub machine guns since the parts were lnt truly interchangeable
...this collection is sooo cool...GIs have been the same since antiquity...the Romans stationed on Hadrian's Wall did the same things as modern GIs do, I'm sure brought back to Rome (or the provinces) stuff they picked up in Britannia...I've got a box of stuff I brought back from Germany 50 years ago...
Reising magazines were reduced in capacity because Reising magazines were unreliable. Forgotten Weapons recently did a video (in October) that touched on this.
At the 17 minute mark, about the Reising SMG magazines, what I heard is that the original double stack/ single feed magazines were unreliable and as a stop-gap measure, they were crimped to single stack/ single feed to increase reliability.
I have a bring back Beretta 1934 in .32 acp with the papers. A customer brought it in saying his dad brought it back from Europe at the tail end of WWII, I bought it from him for very very low. Love this stuff.
the ribs on the Reising magazines were introduced to turn a double-stack single-feed magazine into a single-stack magazine: it was noted that the gun had reliability issue because of friction in the upper part of the magazine where the two columns of .45 were squished into one for feeding. The ribs prevented round to stack horizontally with the consequence that a 20-rnd magazine turned into a 12-round box. Not ideal, but reliability definitely improved with that. The Reising was a very good submachinegun, but it was not well thought out for military service unfortunately. The M60 semiauto carbine had a much better luck with police and law enforcement, and is actually a very good weapon. Excellent video as always! Greetings from Italy
I'm so bummed I didn't get into firearms until my grandfather passed. He trained at Aberdeen proving grounds before being sent to Europe with Patton's Army as basically an armorer for .50 cal and under weapons. Before being sent over, they trained on not only US weapons but also enemy guns that were shipped back from the war for the military to study. Apparently there were piles and piles of foreign arms in various conditions from beat to hell to really good shape and we still have a bunch of stuff he was able to take home. I am sure he never imagined that so many years later it would be highly collectible and worth a lot of money.
I live in Myrtle Beach and drive by the location for the store/range/museum all the time I can't wait for it to open been looking forward to It sense I heard that it was coming. Look forward to seeing these firearms very soon.
Type 4 was the Japanese attempt of Recreation of the M1 Garand they Captured using the 7.7x58mm Type 99 & 97 rounds which were the same rounds used on the Type 99 Arisaka.
The Reising was of good build quality and materials, only issue was it was still mid-development when the Marines urgently needed them at once after Pearl Harbor, it was literally an experimental gun pressed into frontline service....the results shouldn't be a surprise
I'm not gonna spoil it for everyone else but the last gun in the final minute of this video made me audibly gasp and perform about 8 other bodily functions at once. I'm sure you were overjoyed at the privilege to hold one of those!
S&W 9mm light carbines were made for the British. The guns couldn't take pressure of British ammo. Most were scrapped. Forgotten Weapons has videos on them.
An outstanding collection! More so as it's a private collection. The amount of time and money that went into amassing such a fine group of artifacts is amazing. I'm in Canada, ergo there's no way I could acquire such a fine collection. You Americans are so lucky that you're allowed to possess such things. Probably the only country in the world where such a private collection could exist. I thank you for saving the history. Being able to actually touch and hold or better yet, fire these rare speciments is a beautiful thing. Something we Canadians will never be able to do, well not openly. I'm sure there's some collectors that squirreled away a few pieces simply because they can't bring themselves up to parting with their beloved pieces of history. Makes me think of that German that had a Panther tank hid away in his basement. It takes a very special man to risk doing something like that. I can't help but admire them. Well done sir.
I'm surprised that the US ordnance went through so many different sub machine guns to replace the Thompson before finally adopting the M3 Grease gun. To me the logical choice would have been the M42 in 9mm Luger for fighting in Europe since most nations there were already using the caliber. I definitely would rather have that than a grease gun. Too bad the M50 Reising wasn't more reliable. I really think it's cool.
...that Smif' subgun was a prototype submitted to the Brits and which the Brits said sucked...since S&W had already spent the contract monies on this failed design, they instead geared up to manufacture the Victory models to satisfy the contract - the Brits eventually adopted the STEN...
Great video. Most magazines were ribbed to improve reliability by reducing cartridge friction during feeding not to restrict capacity. Also, the FG-42 is neat but the S&W Model 1940 might be the coolest gun on the table. It was not made for the US military but under British contract. If British ammo and testing procedures been more consistent with the ammo S&W used for its initial design parameters, the Model 1940 might have become a major player in the early part of WW2. The Brits refused the design and demanded that S&W payback the upfront cost of T&E. S&W instead paid them back by offering revolvers in .38/200, which the Brits gladly accepted. Great piece and congrats on possession of such a nice firearm. And a comment about precise machining of firearms in 1940...many early firearms were made with much more impressive machining than is possible today. Our advantage today is computer technology not craftsmanship. The hands of early artisans are almost completely gone.
Alot of Navy pilots would get rotated back to the US to train the new men . My dad came back before the regulations were put in place. He didn't just bring back guns.
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The 20 round didn’t work , they rushed the 12s to the troops because the crimp fixes the problem they had with the 20.
My Dad legally sent back 27 pistols he acquired from German soldiers or civilians that surrendered to his platoon. He arrived back in the States in mid July and went into a military hospital near his hometown. He kept expecting the crate to show up and it didn't. Inquiries to the Army showed it arrived at a depot in Indian Gap Pennsylvania and disappeared after that. What a shame that someone...probably a Stateside soldier...purloined those pistols, when my Dad acquired them honsetly in combat.
That happens a lot. A buddy of mine lost a bunch of pictures from Vietnam that some mail clerk probably showed off as his own. One of the books I read, I don't recall which one, described the combat soldiers going back to the rear and finding their duffle bags sliced open and various items missing.
@@oldesertguy9616 who tf slices open a very openable piece of luggage?
@@TheAsianOfChaos they had padlocks on them. It's much easier to cut open the cloth bag instead of dealing with the lock.
@@oldesertguy9616 ok fair nuff ig
thats why most smuggled handguns back then instead of baggin it up.
Not all soldiers had a chance to get Lugers or Walthers, my father brought back a couple helmets and Mauser 98. Soldiers gambled and won and lost souvenirs. My uncle brought back two 1911s he secreted in boots. We found some dilapidated Thompsons in the M48 tanks we received in Vietnam.
My stepfather brought a Reising model 55 home from WWII. It was a very interesting piece and I grew up with it in the house. He passed away when I was eleven years old and later on, my mother's new husband turned it in to the Sanford Police Department in Florida because he hated guns. I would love to see it again, but I suspect it's long, long gone as I'm nearing sixty. Thanks for letting me see my old friend one more time, even if it's not the same one. I look forward to visiting your museum and own several of your current production rifles. Regards, Brett .
Great collection!! A military friend in Vietnam would disassemble any weapon he wanted to have when he got home. He mailed each piece of the disassembled gun back to the states and when he finally got home he reassembled them all and had a nice collection, some legal and some not so legal. Enjoyed your video!!!
You can tell MAC is loving every second of this interview. I don't think I've ever seen him talk so fast. Can't say I blame him. And It's truly amazing to see such a well documented and curated collection of historic firearms.
Reason for the Rising's lower capacity mags was those two ribs reduced bearing surface, by nature friction on the cartridges and made them feed far better. Also they give sand an area to play. You see this in sten mags with the brass rod conversions and even beretta as a modern example with the less intrusive m9a1 magazine rib.
I know an old veteran of the South Pacific theater who had brought home a 7 piece collection of Japanese officers knives and swords. Those things were awesome. Craftsmanship beyond compare. He died several years ago and I have no idea where those ended up. I pray the family has taken care of them as they are super rare.
I think my dad carried a Thompson in WW2. When the young was captured in Desert Storm I said she should be court martial for not keeping her weapon cleaned. He said he was with a captain one night and he saw a squad of Germans coming toward them. He said he would open up on them when they got to a certain point. He opened up and click the Thompson jammed. He threw it down and ran. He said he felt bad about leaving the captain until he jumped in a ditch and jumped on top the captain. One of the handful of stories he told.
This is awesome! I inherited a revolver my grandad brought back from WW2 with bring back papers. Now that he’s gone I’m really glad he kept the papers. It tells such a good story!
My Grandfather brought back an Arisaka Type 38 Carbine in 6.5 JAP. It’s awesome and lives in the safe with the book he wrote about his life and service in WW2.
Did he ever seek to publish the writings?
@@warrenharrison9490 No he didn’t and he wrote it while he had terminal cancer and has passed away back in 95.
I have a K -98, a P-08 DWM Luger serial # 0002 that are papered Bring Back weapons of my Grandpa's. I recently found out that the DWM Luger is in fact serial # 2 of the original DWM made Lugers and has a value estimated to be somewhere in the low 6 figures . The paperwork indicates my grandpa had it surrendered to him by a German Colonel after a brief fight with Germans defending a radar installation at a airfield outside of Frankfort
So the mention of reliability for the Reising was one of the reasons why they went with the 12 round single-stack magazines versus the original full capacity ones.
Being double-stack but single-feed affected the reliability, along with them not being super sturdy.
The simple fix was to add reinforcing ribs to the inside of the magazines, which in turn limited capacity, but it did help with some of the issues the gun had with malfunctions.
Aberdeen Proving Ground, I was a dependant child there in 1979 to 1982. Being a Kid me and my friends would get in trouble for crawling under the historical WW1 and WW2 tanks and going inside and move the turrets around by hand crank, HA HA HA. The MP's had fits over this. Sadly, I was there a few years back and there is almost nothing left. All closed up and most of the tanks are gone.
According to the 1981 book "An Illustrated Guide to Rifles and Submachine Guns" by Maj. Frederick Myatt, MC, S&W produced 2,000 copies of the Light Rifle, Model 1940 and they were all purchased by Great Britain and issued to the Royal Navy.
I believe only about 1000 were delivered and those were deemed unsuitable for issue, all but 5 were destroyed at the end of the war. The small number in collectors hands were from a group of just over 200 that were found in a S&W warehouse during the 1970s(?).
I took the family to surfside and we spent a week down there in SC … we loved it so much that we will be going down every year or at least thats the plan … myrtle beach area was just awesome, if this museum opens i will definitely go visit it next time i’m down there
If I had to pick two from this wonderful collection, would be that air raid siren and STG-44!
I missed the STG. Didn't see one.
Just hearing guys like that run PSA makes me proud to be a customer. That some of the profits made on my purchases went to immortalize these solders.
I think "forgotten Weapons" did a video that said the crimped mags were an attempt to increase the reliability of the gun.
that 30 carbine reisling is awesome
On the Reisings the reason they came up with those crimped mags was so sand was less likely to make the magazines hang up. Similar to the sand cuts on a FAL bolt by making the walls of the magazine have less contact with the rounds and the follower the sand could be pushed out of the way. The french came up with the same thing for the MAT 49 bloke on the range has a video about the MAT 49 sand magazines
I am sure you are right about the rising single stack mags . When I deployed to OIF the double stack M9 mags didn't even need to get dusty and they would jam up - I have read that it had something to do with a batch of mags that were too well parkerized. Anyway I no longer trust double stack single feed mags and would much rather have one good single stack mag that I trust, than any number of high cap mags that may or may not be reliable.
That .30 carbine reising looks like a good idea. If it had of been adopted it might have cost about 1/2 what a m1 carbine cost. A lot like the Cristobal carbine from Dominican republic.
you can see the passion when he talks, good man!
G'day from Australia! Terrific video fellas! Absolutely fascinating to watch. I think the only SMG that Australia produced during WWII, was the Owen Gun for jungle warfare in Borneo and New Guinea. I had no idea that so many different weapons were developed, or at least prototyped by the US/Allies and Axis. Remarkable. The fact that you have paperwork that also provides insight into the history of the item and the soldier is amazing.
Last 50 years service members can't bring anything back!! I had P08s, MP44s in Iraq and P14s, AKMs in Afghanistan
Democracy is ❤
...the M3A1 was our personal weapon for armored vehicle crewmen in Germany (Nov 71 - Jul 74)...
A lot of the odd bring backs are because all the guns had already been taken by other soldiers that got there first. It's the "Well, I gotta take something back" mentality. Some of the more prized bring backs then were also the .22s and shotguns because they just wanted a free rabbit hunting or dove hunting gun.
I've seen that funky looking SMG (Model 50) when I watched the Pacific from HBO. So glad I get to see it's full form.
Seriously cool collection.
OG FG42 too.
WOW!!
These collection videos and rare guns are the BEST videos. Thanks for sharing!
I have an Arisaka type 99 and the paperwork. Captured during the island fighting in the Pacific. Obviously the chrysanthemum is intact. I am missing the dust cover, but I have heard that most soldiers threw it away to eliminate the clanking noise from it. The right side of the front sight is broken on one end, when it dropped from the tree, after it's owner was shot, by our guys. The sight is still connected on the other end. I will not be replacing it.
The FG-42 and the MG-42 were the basis for the M-60 dual purpose machine gun. And we all know how well that worked out.
Create a machine gun that we've been using since 1957? Yeah, it worked out phenomenally. Not to mention the mg42 was the foundation for what we now know as GPMG's
@@ImJef It was a general purpose machine gun then, about 26 pounds and man portable. It was just better than ours, and everyone else's at the time.
Ian needs to take a look at that .30 carbine Reising
Wow, my grandpa whom served in North Africa would be so proud (at least I assume he would, he never spoke about the war). ...He recovered a WW1 bayonet from a German soldier, a real *nasty* super sharp-serrated sword kind of thing - I remember touching the teeth on it, & it was absolutely ready to destroy 80yrs later! I can't really remember, as I was very young, but I think he also brought back his M1 rifle.
EDIT: Ian @ ForgottenWeapons needs to do a review of a few of these!
A few of these models were on recent forgotten weapons episodes. Like the Remington and Reising.
Booooooooooooo.
This is a fantastic video, well done with so much expertise and unique guns and how they came to the USA. I look forward to the upcoming videos and the museum!
The Smith & Wesson M1940 was designed for the British but it was not reliable and was a flop. In order to pay the British back for the all that R&D costs Smith & Wesson took its 38 K frame revolver design and chambered it in 38-200 for the British. These revolvers look like the American Victory models but they have a 5" barrel instead of a 4".
Either S&W didn't ask or the British didn't tell what kind of 9mm ammo they planned on using it was hot loaded SMG ammo that would blow the end cap off of the light rifles
I have a sword just like that. My grandad was in the 7th infantry for the duration. Mine is different in that it is damaged by what I think is shrapnel.
the history on the items is absolutely fascinating 😁👍
Tim was either very excited or had a boat load of coffee ☕️.
Probably both.
Great gear and video.
Both!
Keep in mind his AK47 T-shirt "Who needs a girlfriend". I must admit, when I was 17, I started going to Pennsylvania gun shows. An older friend of mine befriended an FFL dealer that would bring all his best toys to his 90 acre property. WHO NEEDS A GIRLFRIEND!
@@toynazi Skipping the 9mm. reloads we worked on all Friday night, across a pond (into the imbankment) with an automatic M10
and a huge wet suppressor and a laced
leather cover( insulator wrap). You could hold it by the suppressor.
Nah, no fun at all for a 17 year old guy.
Nice collection! Thank you for sharing!
This is amazing, id love to see this in person
Nobody knows exactly why they limited the Reisling to a single stack, but the most educated guess is for improved reliability.
The ridges in that .30 carbine reising probably was to reduce drag/friction on the bullets for reliability, this has been done with other magazines as well, reduction in capacity was probably just a side effect.
The S&W for some reason reminds me of a Tippman paintball marker.
Interesting stuff. Our VFW has a Germen NCO dress sword, and a pair of binos from WWII. My son has a Mauser brought back from Italy by his grandpa's uncle.
By far the best video you've done in a long time!
Reisling indented the magazine to limit the rounds due to issues with jamming especially in sandy humid environments. The double stack worked fine when clean in police use, but it wasn't able to function in the pacific reliably. Limiting the rounds helped reduce issues and was introduced along with other quick fixes like stopping communal cleaning if the sub machine guns since the parts were lnt truly interchangeable
...this collection is sooo cool...GIs have been the same since antiquity...the Romans stationed on Hadrian's Wall did the same things as modern GIs do, I'm sure brought back to Rome (or the provinces) stuff they picked up in Britannia...I've got a box of stuff I brought back from Germany 50 years ago...
Love his enthusiasm. It's a shame that soldiers aren't allowed to bring back plunder anymore.
Next time I am in M.B. I will definitely stop by the museum. Awesome stuff.
Reising magazines were reduced in capacity because Reising magazines were unreliable. Forgotten Weapons recently did a video (in October) that touched on this.
At the 17 minute mark, about the Reising SMG magazines, what I heard is that the original double stack/ single feed magazines were unreliable and as a stop-gap measure, they were crimped to single stack/ single feed to increase reliability.
I have a bring back Beretta 1934 in .32 acp with the papers. A customer brought it in saying his dad brought it back from Europe at the tail end of WWII, I bought it from him for very very low. Love this stuff.
I have never seen an M3 in such good condition... 😃
Yes that one one looks refinished.
@Craig the Scott it does but I was certain that he said he preferred his historic firearms as they were... I guess he may have bought it that way..
The carbine is actually a Harrison & Richardson Carbine trial prototype. Thst was their entry into the competition that created the M1 Carbine
the ribs on the Reising magazines were introduced to turn a double-stack single-feed magazine into a single-stack magazine: it was noted that the gun had reliability issue because of friction in the upper part of the magazine where the two columns of .45 were squished into one for feeding. The ribs prevented round to stack horizontally with the consequence that a 20-rnd magazine turned into a 12-round box. Not ideal, but reliability definitely improved with that. The Reising was a very good submachinegun, but it was not well thought out for military service unfortunately. The M60 semiauto carbine had a much better luck with police and law enforcement, and is actually a very good weapon.
Excellent video as always! Greetings from Italy
What Awesome pieces of History, not to mention some very unique guns ! 👍👍😎🤙🤙🤙
They crimped the magazines to add strength to the feed lips because on the .45 the feed lips would seperate overtime.
Really enjoyed this episode and the history of his unbelievable collection. Look forward to the rest
Love the Air Raid siren story.
I bet Ian will be knocking down the door before the video is over.
I'm so bummed I didn't get into firearms until my grandfather passed. He trained at Aberdeen proving grounds before being sent to Europe with Patton's Army as basically an armorer for .50 cal and under weapons. Before being sent over, they trained on not only US weapons but also enemy guns that were shipped back from the war for the military to study. Apparently there were piles and piles of foreign arms in various conditions from beat to hell to really good shape and we still have a bunch of stuff he was able to take home. I am sure he never imagined that so many years later it would be highly collectible and worth a lot of money.
I live in Myrtle Beach and drive by the location for the store/range/museum all the time I can't wait for it to open been looking forward to It sense I heard that it was coming. Look forward to seeing these firearms very soon.
I think Tim left that place a little jealous...j.k. very nice collection thanks for taking the time to show us.
Thanks
Something about these old guns. They're great.
That is an amazing collection. Can’t wait to go to the museum.
Excellent! Thank you both!
Rich.
Type 4 was the Japanese attempt of Recreation of the M1 Garand they Captured using the 7.7x58mm Type 99 & 97 rounds which were the same rounds used on the Type 99 Arisaka.
The Reising was of good build quality and materials, only issue was it was still mid-development when the Marines urgently needed them at once after Pearl Harbor, it was literally an experimental gun pressed into frontline service....the results shouldn't be a surprise
Hahaha this dudes cool. His enthusiasm for his collection is sick. I’d go to his museum.
The tilting bolt Reising looks easier to build/machine. Maybe too heavy.
I'm not gonna spoil it for everyone else but the last gun in the final minute of this video made me audibly gasp and perform about 8 other bodily functions at once. I'm sure you were overjoyed at the privilege to hold one of those!
TMI
Wow, that Reising is an interesting piece!
...fellow collector in our/my club (Palm Beach Arms Collectors) has one of these Japanese 'Garands'...
Best one yet.
Amazing!!! Being a lefty I'd really like to shoot that S&W 9mm with the ejection port down. But I'd imagine that would suck in prone.
Tim, you have to give that Nambu back.
Looks like you both kept trying to put that Riesing 30cal magazine in backwards
Very very cool. You guys at PSA never cease to amaze and satisfy me.
Whatever. XD
S&W 9mm light carbines were made for the British. The guns couldn't take pressure of British ammo. Most were scrapped. Forgotten Weapons has videos on them.
Can you put a link to the museum when you can?
Love the gun history. Another great video
History?
Was that Joey Motorola that brought back that vacuum tube?
Still trying to get an answer on the can/supressor you were running on the 300blk in your mini14 video!
The FG is the coolest personal weapon of all time (PERIOD)
very cool thank you guys
An outstanding collection! More so as it's a private collection. The amount of time and money that went into amassing such a fine group of artifacts is amazing. I'm in Canada, ergo there's no way I could acquire such a fine collection. You Americans are so lucky that you're allowed to possess such things. Probably the only country in the world where such a private collection could exist.
I thank you for saving the history. Being able to actually touch and hold or better yet, fire these rare speciments is a beautiful thing. Something we Canadians will never be able to do, well not openly. I'm sure there's some collectors that squirreled away a few pieces simply because they can't bring themselves up to parting with their beloved pieces of history. Makes me think of that German that had a Panther tank hid away in his basement. It takes a very special man to risk doing something like that. I can't help but admire them.
Well done sir.
I'm surprised that the US ordnance went through so many different sub machine guns to replace the Thompson before finally adopting the M3 Grease gun. To me the logical choice would have been the M42 in 9mm Luger for fighting in Europe since most nations there were already using the caliber. I definitely would rather have that than a grease gun. Too bad the M50 Reising wasn't more reliable. I really think it's cool.
We wanted 45 in ww2 and the Grease gun is a great weapon. I own a M3 and I’ve shot a Reising. The M3 is far superior to the Reising.
I wish my dad snagged some guns from Vietnam ,all he brought back was a couple ears
I know someone similar. He lives on a mountain in the ozarks and doesn’t like visitors. Good dude.
The M2 was used by tank crews in the Gulf War.
...that Smif' subgun was a prototype submitted to the Brits and which the Brits said sucked...since S&W had already spent the contract monies on this failed design, they instead geared up to manufacture the Victory models to satisfy the contract - the Brits eventually adopted the STEN...
I wish my grandfather had captured paperwork for his P38
BM-59s Thats what it looks like! Vai Italia!
Get that .30 Reising to Ian at Forgotten Weapons!
Great video. Most magazines were ribbed to improve reliability by reducing cartridge friction during feeding not to restrict capacity. Also, the FG-42 is neat but the S&W Model 1940 might be the coolest gun on the table. It was not made for the US military but under British contract. If British ammo and testing procedures been more consistent with the ammo S&W used for its initial design parameters, the Model 1940 might have become a major player in the early part of WW2. The Brits refused the design and demanded that S&W payback the upfront cost of T&E. S&W instead paid them back by offering revolvers in .38/200, which the Brits gladly accepted. Great piece and congrats on possession of such a nice firearm. And a comment about precise machining of firearms in 1940...many early firearms were made with much more impressive machining than is possible today. Our advantage today is computer technology not craftsmanship. The hands of early artisans are almost completely gone.
Wow amazing collection sir
Alot of Navy pilots would get rotated back to the US to train the new men . My dad came back before the regulations were put in place. He didn't just bring back guns.
The radio tube was the Flux Capacitor of the day, sort of.
Keep up the good work
They crimp the mags to make them stronger