I used to have one of those. Getting rid of it is one of my deepest regrets. It was made of plastic, and I was about five. I was also a member of the A-Team.
The Uzi really looks like an evolution of the M2 Grease gun with how small it is, the rate of fire and how the barrel looks as it sticks out of the main body of the weapon. I suppose it makes sense since they were designed for similar reasons, form following function and all that.
I’d say the MAC-10 is more of an evolution of the M3 Grease Gun. Same stamped sheet metal design, even using modified versions of the same magazine, but more compact due to the telescoping bolt. But the Uzi fulfills that same form function as well.
I was in the IDF in the mid 1980's and the Uzi was one of the weapons we learned. Obviously very compact, acceptable accuracy for its mission and very comfortable to shoot. At 5:40 you can see that the muzzle is staying in line with the roof line behind it even at full auto. Not surprising since if I remember it weighs about 8 pounds. A Beretta 92 weighs under 2 1/2 pounds and has little recoil so it makes sense. One of the most memorable things about it to me though was its simplicity. It broke down into 4 large parts with no special tools needed for disassembly or reassembly. Literally with my eyes closed I was able to break it down and reassemble it in about half a minute. I'm surprised you still don't see many of them today.
I honestly curious. U talk about it good part of uzi. Is it no bad things from it? And please not because something related to bullet caliber thing, 5.56 are obviously superior than 9mm in terms of performance
@@fadhli179 I feel that it's good at what it does. You're right it's not meant to be an open field rifle like an AK or AR. It's more of a close to medium range weapon I think meant more for the tighter urban spaces, more than a pistol, less than a full sized rifle. As far as bad things about it? It's a bit heavy for its size. I think the bolt carrier is something like 2 pounds, like a brick of steel. I heard they did that to slow down the rate of fire.
@@shevetlevi2821 thx 4 reply. I was having a question in mind, with military now employing carbine rifle, will it replace uzi role as urbanized combat weapon? I was wondering is it because of controllability if uzi make this gun are an option, or is there some point i am missing completely.
@@fadhli179 Just to be transparent I'm not an expert I've just had experience with the Uzi and other military weapons. I think that armies are finding with carbines, especially with collapsible and folding stocks like the M4, Galil and certainly bullpup configurations like the Tavor that they can have the best of both worlds; they can approach the small size of a submachine pistol like the Uzi or HK MP5 but have a full power cartridge where as you noted the 5.56 is ballistically far superior to the 9mm. My guess is that the submachine pistols will still see some use in police departments or security details.
@@SeeYouInValhalla615 I think we agree that the Uzi is very versatile and rugged. And for what you did as crew on a recon tank you'd want something compact like that in the close quarters of a tank or armored vehicle.
They actually carried them in a briefcase - in the full photo you can see the briefcase on the floor. The secret service agent in the foreground is trying to pull out the stock. He was called Robert Wanko, which was a memorable name.
my personal firearm in the army was a Uzi, even got shooter first class with it, accurate up to 200 meters single shot, its not just a submachinegun, learn to control it, its pretty cool, carried it for 4 years, never jammed, never a misfire, just awesome
Nice to hear that. There is a sadness to the Israel's need for cutting edge weapons. Without them and a professional, determined, well equipped and well trained army, this tiny country would cease to exist.
A little compariosn M1a1 grease gun: Stamped sheet metal Slow controllable rate of fire Compact Cheap and easy to manufacture The uzi: Stamped sheet metal Relatively slow and controlled rate of fire Compact and mobile Cheap and easy to manufacture The uzi is literally a newer version of the grease gun
That first burst burst my bubble! Such an iconic weapon, I was expecting some loud Hollywood-style rapid-fire sounds! That gun is quiet! Thanks for the review, fella.
I cast and reload my own ammo, so the idea of shooting something in minutes that takes me *hours* to reload just doesn't exactly appeal to me. But, I fully believe that everyone should be able to own full-auto firearms if they want them and are willing to waste that sort of money to waste on ammo. "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" means exactly that -- no exceptions, no government approval, go mandatory government tax on certain types of firearms or devices.
I fired the Sterling plenty, The MP5 as well but I have always wanted to use one of these. I like the "One hand will always find the other one" mantra.
My old personal weapon back in my militairy days. If you squeeze the trigger gently enough you could fire further rounds, even when it's in semi-auto mode.
The Dutch commando corps used to use them as well, mate of mine was one, said he loved the Uzi. Love the hand meets hand concept that was clever. A very innovative gun especially considering its contempories of just a few years earlier MP40, Stirling. I'd love to have a go with one.
Lovely submachine gun, Had one more than 25 year for personal protection (Army). UZI's origin however is the Czech CZ model 25 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa_vz._23
Was my standard gun as my time as an APC Commander in the german Army until it was taken out of service. I loved to shoot this little fella and it was precise as hell.
I was in Israel in the 80's and every time I asked about Uzi's the reply was always, we just use them for training the women! The men were more impressed with Kalashnikov's
Israel never used Kalashnikovs though. I think at the time Israel mostly used the Galil rifle which is based on an upgraded Kalashnikov design and has a built-in bottle opener.
I was fortunate enough to do some shooting with the US Secret Service and they let me play with and Uzi. Different than an MP-5 but lot’s of fun to shoot.
Uziel Gal / Gotthard Glas / Gaál Gotthárd, what a truly amazing and interesting man in history: a German Jew of Hungarian Jew origin who settled in Israel and helped the fledgling nation to survive!
As Idf officer, Important Information. This submachine gun is very unsafe with unskilled hands. A magazine inside the rifle can release a bundle of shots if the rifle falls or gets hit hard enough. The IDF has stopped using it because of safety issues.
Hmmm... one thing comes to mind with this "hand-to-hand-principle": if it would actually be SO dark that you wouldn't even find the magazine well on the gun in your hand, what would you even hope to aim at 😂?
Hmmm, has this person actually WORKED with german made things? How about wonderfully engineered & manufactured....MISTAKES! Try telling your german company rep they used the wrong part! And that's not to mention the Audi, BMW, Mercedes & Porsche owners who all now the truth about "German quality" & the price they pay for it.
@@stephen9381 not sure what you mean? The Uzzi was of simplistic design with one moving part, (apart from the trigger group) which tended to slide backward and forward in the receiver with boring regularity as long as it was lubricated and not stuffed full of sand or other unwanted material, which would cause just about any firearm I know of to have some reliability issues, therefore you can hardly blame the Uzzi for it. Some magazine related stoppages occurred but it was avoidable as long as old worn magazines were not used. Some ammo-related stoppages did occur as well, but the SMG itself never really let me down.
The Uzi was my service weapon during my time as a tank gunner at the Bundeswehr 30 years ago. I liked it a lot - smaller and lighter than the G3, much less recoil, accurate up to 150 meters. We still used the G3 for guard duty until someone decided that each guard detail should use its service weapon. From then on we went on guard duty with the Uzi - but for security reasons we got told to keep the mags in our pockets and not to charge the gun unless under threat. We were joking a lot about this -like challenging any intruders with "Freeze and don't move until I have put the mag in place!" 🤭
cant you carry it with the mag, uncocked? id imagine cocking can be done faster than reloading from a mag in your pocket, and an uncocked open bolt should be pretty safe.
@@uffia.6817 I understand, I'm just curious about the mechanical aspect. I guess that maybe the safety can not lock the bolt in place while uncocked, but only lock it in the cocked position? That would mean when dropping the gun, the bolt could move just enough to chamber and fire a round without ever getting to the cocked and locked position. Or maybe they assumed that, if they allow the magazine inside, there will always be a dumbass who still cocks the gun.
@@Almostbakerzero Sorry, I don't know the answer, as a mere conscript I got taught to fire and clean various weapons but little about their intrinsic mechanics. When cleaning we were not allowed to dismantle certain sub-assemblies like triggers, safety or breechblock, that was the job of specialists.
Had a really cool Uzi toy gun when I was a kid. Damn I wish I still had it. Yeah, back when people thought it was a good idea to give kids realistic toy guns. I miss those days.
I had the best and biggest toy gun collection on my block when I was a kid. Everyone came to my house to "play guns" I would always take 1st pick. Usually some type of machine gun and a pistol or 2. Then everyone else would pick. We boys would spend hours in our war games some days. I was in the toy gun section at the store a while back. Getting a birthday present for one of the grandkids. A young man and his mom came walking by. He was eyeballing the assorted weapons and pointed to one he really liked. His mom quickly said "You know we don't buy those things!". He dropped his finger and the excitement left his face as she walked him out of the isle. I wanted to buy him a toy gun myself. I'm sure she got him something "nonviolent". Like a doll or a dress. Poor little guy!
**pretends i don't have an attic filled with realistic gel blasters** Yeah, those days were whimsical..... Joke aside, i wish i could own a real steel one
@@shadowwolf7622 My best friend between the ages of 7 and 10 years old (circa 1978 - 81) had a toy* MP-40 Schmiesser and I had a pair of Lugers, (amongst several other guns - beautiful Colt Dragoon with revolving chamber was a favourite) all of which were metal and took caps - fantastic quality toys. I'll never forget racing at full tilt round to his house after dinner so that I could claim the MP-40, before playing till dark through the gardens and back lanes (alleys). He was very good at sharing the MP-40 while he took my M-16 (not as good quality as his - lots of plastic). Great times wielding an MP-40 with a Luger sidearm while he had my period correct M-16 and Colt Dragoon. I'd love to be transported back for a couple of hours of complete escapism. *Toys, but beautifully made - being a little boy at the time I've no idea how accurately made they were, but there was some effort made - removable magazines on the M-16 and MP-40 and the Lugers had moving toggles. Wonderful.
@@shadowwolf7622 On the subject of kids not being able to play with guns - I don't understand what these parents think they are achieving. It's quite easy to argue that kids, (we'll say boys because it's usually boys) are going to end up more psychologically damaged, (for want of a better word) by being denied a toy, (and play experience) while the parents attempt to come up with a coherent reason for denying him. It's not like saying, "sorry, we can't afford that" or some other reason that the kid should be able to grasp - there's really nothing that you could say that would make sense to a child. When I was a young boy everyone played with toy guns......and bows & arrows, and catapults/slingshots, and rode bikes, climbed trees, made rope swings, disappeared for hours on end, and we definitely didn't all grow up to become violent or dysfunctional adults. It's kinda sad that kids imaginations are being manipulated by parents who'd rather see them glued to a tablet in a stuffy room, rather than seeing them out exploring.....possibly even getting hurt - the horror! I know exactly how this comment reads, but I can only imagine that the little boy being told that he can't have a gun will only end up full of resentment for his over-protective, mollycoddling, pain in the arse parents, and the parents will end up surprised at how it happened.
There's much about the world that is much worse than it was. I've got to many stories to even want to start ... I will say one thing though - parents denying their child something they really want - make that thing precious - and by doing so - often produce exactly the opposite result of what they intended. .
i went to a "sounds of music" play in South Africa a few years back, when the nazi germans came in to the show they were holding UZIs, you can imagine how hard i was holding the laughter.
🤣😂 Hilarious! Probably went of the Heads of 99% of the audience who wouldn't have blinked an eye! There are Nazi era Coins with the Star of David Stamped on them! That made me question history!!👍😉
wow so a local Play house making a Musical about ANC , I mean Nazis running away Didn't have period correct sub machines.. You are a real hero for laughing out load no less, what a man..( i mean a little gay for seeing that play to begin with , but yeah you got them)..
And yelling "If you're interested in getting yourself one, there are actually several of them in the upcoming James D. Julia/Rock Island auction house auction. Of course, they are fully transferable." at the end of the showdown. xP
5:00 No that's not what we want to see. We want to see the proper Gangsta stance: Fold in the Buttstock, get a second Uzi and dual wield them, emptying the clips in one burst.
I have extensive experience with a full size collapsing stock Uzi on full auto. When you add a suppressor to it, the recoil is so minimal that on full auto at 100 yards I can put all 32 rounds on a paper plate. Legend or Over Hyped? Legend
We used it on 50 meters in the German army(early 90s) after the 3rd shooter we where no longer able to cover the 10. We just counted the misses from that point onward. There weren't many anyways.
I had the great pleasure of attending an armourers course in Israel in 1984 on all IMI weapons and was taught the technical aspects of the UZI by the designer of the GALIL rifle Yisrael Galil... Vic
The movie that really comes to mind when I think of this gun is "The Wild Geese" starring Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger. Still love that movie to this day.
Aaahh! The Uzi! As a child growing up in the Netherlands, we alway went to a forest near by our house that was an military exercise area. The Dutch soldiers were armed with FAL'S, FN MAG's but mainly Uzi's. The forest was LOADED with 9mm blanks and we collect them of course. Later, when I was in the army, I shot the Uzi a few times (they were phased out by that time). I could easily hit half size man targets at 100 meters. We normally only shot semi auto BTW. We learned to shoot full auto from the hip with the stock against the upperleg and the left thump over the top cover. BTW there was another stock. Specialy build for the Dutch AF. It's the same contour as the wooden stock, but made from sheet steel. Nice video!
When do you were in the Dutch army? Because I have an old Dutch steel helmet (those modeled after the American M1) that I bought at a flee market in Ostfriesland. Did you still wear one of those helmets?
@BertNL It was in Aurich. At first I thought it was a German helmet because the Bundeswehr had these kind of helmet shells for a while as well and it says "J. VIEL" (wich could be a German name) on the leather sweatband, but the guy who sold me the helmet told me it is Dutch and that matches with the liner and chinstrap design. It also has Hessian fabrik under the cover net and a rubner band that is cut from a tire wich apparently was a widespread practice in the Dutch army at the time.
Hollywood seems to prefer three magazine types: 5,000 round, 10,000 round, and infinite. I love it when they shoot full auto for about five minutes and then suddenly they’re out of ammo… how do they get all those bullets in that little mag??
I shot an Uzi, MP5, and Colt 9mm, all full-auto, in a range session many years ago. The Uzi was definitely my favorite of the three, for all the reasons that Ian related. It also was the most compact, if I recall correctly.
I shot the MAC10, UZI, and the MP5 at a range in Georgia in the mid 80s. Hands down: the MP5. The UZI was friendly, the MAC10 was a 9mm pipe wrench, and the MP5 was a dream. This was shortly after the SAS took down terrorists with it. MP5 was king.
Wow. Watching it fire in slow-mo was cool as fuck. This channel rules. I’m not even particularly interested in firing/owning guns but learning the ins and outs of them sure is cool.
+Mists and Shadows In the case of Kennedy in Dallas? At the airport we see the secret service agents be told to step down from the back of Kennedys vehicle and they protest with putting their arms in the air. LBJ had 2 Secret service men over him at the first shoot through Kennedys throat. Not a single Secret Service agent is near Kennedys limo. The driver of Kennedys Limo is doing the exact opposite to what they are trained to do? Instead of pulling down the throttle and get out of there at the first shoot the driver actually slows down. (Notice the red lights indicating the driver pull the breaks at the Zapruder film)
A design consideration you didn't mention, but which also drove for simplicity - it had to be usable in the dusty desert environment along the Egyptian border and in the Sinai. So it needed to be very easy to disassemble and clean. This also fed into that low, controllable rate of fire: a big bolt with lots of excess momentum could push through a certain amount of gunk in the mechanism, and reduced the rate of fire as a side effect.
Even though the L85 is dogshit, the Brits had the right idea when they trained their lefties to shoot right handed. Standardization is important afterall.
I am a lefty, used to be left eye dominant, now I don't have a dominant eye. Maybe because I don't shoot as much as I used to and I stare at the computer screen all the time.
Reminds me of the old joke: how to clear a room without handgrenades? Simply throw a loaded Uzi in. I guess the safety at the grip was really necessary.
I shot the Uzi in 1984 with wooden stock and I too was surprised about how easy it was to stay on target while shooting. Of course it was almost as heavy as the assault rifle G3. ^^
I had the pleasure of some full auto time on an Uzi in the Army and absolutely loved the very controllable, slower rate of full auto. It has a solid feel and heafty weight which eliminates recoil. It's a great weapon, and I can see why it was so popular.
Absolutely reflects my own experiences when firing the Uzi at the German military - really fun, controllable and pleasant gun to fire. Just since our Uzi's all had 30+ years of service life the bolt catch was worn often so some where practical full auto only and others would not stop to fire after releasing the trigger... 😆 (either pull the Mag or wait till its empty in that case) may part of those uzi-as-a-granade ideas - they told us you need to secure the grip safety with duck tape for that to work...) One thing I found very destinctive was especially when firing semi-auto you really notice the sound and feel when the bolt hits the back and that makes it sometimes feel and sound like it has double the fire rate. Also the version with the wooden stock is quite heavy - almost same weight as the G3.
If you’re grenading it you have to do the two hand heave like you would toss a German Shepherd at someone. If you can see that visual in your minds eye
I'm glad i never had to touch a Uzi after basic training. One exercise on the range was to shoot 10 rounds in 3 bursts (might misremember the actual numbers) and I managed to do 6 bursts. Not because I was a natural born shooter, but because the 30+ year old Uzi liked to jam.
Don't forget that when defending a tiny country against an insurgency force, much of the fighting is going to be urban engagements, close-quarters combat and secretive counter-terrorism missions against defended compounds. They need something compact, highly reliable and easy to maintain in the desert. Not something that will blow combustion products into the bolt face and jam it out of battery.
@@olisk-jy9rz Ian is a left-handed shooter . The Uzi isn't designed for left-handers. The first time that I fired one, the selector lever bounced off of the top of my firing hand.
@@dizzee6089 Let's face it, most people are right-handed. Some armies, most notably Russia and the U.K. are notoriously hostile to left-handed shooters.
The Israeli joke goes: If you need to clear a room, but don't have any grenades, cock the Uzi and toss it in. It will go off when it hits the floor and spin around until the mag is empty. Room cleared.
Remember the Uzi was designed in 1948 and entered production a couple years later, It was one of the most modern sub-machine guns to enter mass production. What else was around in the late 40's-early 50's? Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. The Uzi must have looked so compact and futuristic in comparison.
Not really. The Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. were actually late 30s and early 40s type weapons. Hell, the Thompson and MP40 were actually 20s type weapons, that were just modified as time went on. The Uzi is an early 50s type weapon. That's a decade later. At that time new intermediate cartridges were coming into effect. No one really cared about SMGs anymore.
Ha, we used these in the 'mag' in sunny South Africa - I still remember my first impressions; quite heavy (that bolt is a big chunk of metal), the 'chugga-chugga-chugga' feel in full auto which was really easy to control, you can really feel the bolt moving backwards and forwards when firing, how quickly 25 rounds disappears in full auto even at such low rpm, and my personal favourite: the part where if you don't pull the charging handle quite far enough backwards for the bolt to engage the catches, how it could still pick up a round and fire it when you released the charging handle! To their credit, the instructors demo'd this very clearly (one too many bad experiences no doubt).
"Hand meets hand" that's a pretty neat little concept in its simplicity.
It works.
With the power of proprioception, I can insert a magazine without looking!
@@Xandros999 of wha?? 😂😂
@@rextransformation7418 The instinctive knowledge of the position of your body without the use of any other sense like sight
UZI - Excellent or Overrated
IDF: Who cares? Give us practical, functional and reliable any day of the week.
I used to have one of those. Getting rid of it is one of my deepest regrets.
It was made of plastic, and I was about five. I was also a member of the A-Team.
A team used mini 14
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@@alexcargo3358 whoops.....
The Uzi really looks like an evolution of the M2 Grease gun with how small it is, the rate of fire and how the barrel looks as it sticks out of the main body of the weapon. I suppose it makes sense since they were designed for similar reasons, form following function and all that.
Both are simple open bolt guns, but they’re very different inside.
@@MichaelEdelman1954 Correct. The Uzi had a telescoping bolt and a mag well in the pistol grip for a more compact weapon.
*M3 grease gun
The Js stole the design from the Czechs. That's something that Ian doesn't mention for some reason.
I’d say the MAC-10 is more of an evolution of the M3 Grease Gun. Same stamped sheet metal design, even using modified versions of the same magazine, but more compact due to the telescoping bolt.
But the Uzi fulfills that same form function as well.
I was in the IDF in the mid 1980's and the Uzi was one of the weapons we learned. Obviously very compact, acceptable accuracy for its mission and very comfortable to shoot. At 5:40 you can see that the muzzle is staying in line with the roof line behind it even at full auto. Not surprising since if I remember it weighs about 8 pounds. A Beretta 92 weighs under 2 1/2 pounds and has little recoil so it makes sense. One of the most memorable things about it to me though was its simplicity. It broke down into 4 large parts with no special tools needed for disassembly or reassembly. Literally with my eyes closed I was able to break it down and reassemble it in about half a minute. I'm surprised you still don't see many of them today.
I honestly curious. U talk about it good part of uzi. Is it no bad things from it?
And please not because something related to bullet caliber thing, 5.56 are obviously superior than 9mm in terms of performance
@@fadhli179 I feel that it's good at what it does. You're right it's not meant to be an open field rifle like an AK or AR. It's more of a close to medium range weapon I think meant more for the tighter urban spaces, more than a pistol, less than a full sized rifle. As far as bad things about it? It's a bit heavy for its size. I think the bolt carrier is something like 2 pounds, like a brick of steel. I heard they did that to slow down the rate of fire.
@@shevetlevi2821 thx 4 reply. I was having a question in mind, with military now employing carbine rifle, will it replace uzi role as urbanized combat weapon? I was wondering is it because of controllability if uzi make this gun are an option, or is there some point i am missing completely.
@@fadhli179 Just to be transparent I'm not an expert I've just had experience with the Uzi and other military weapons. I think that armies are finding with carbines, especially with collapsible and folding stocks like the M4, Galil and certainly bullpup configurations like the Tavor that they can have the best of both worlds; they can approach the small size of a submachine pistol like the Uzi or HK MP5 but have a full power cartridge where as you noted the 5.56 is ballistically far superior to the 9mm. My guess is that the submachine pistols will still see some use in police departments or security details.
@@SeeYouInValhalla615 I think we agree that the Uzi is very versatile and rugged. And for what you did as crew on a recon tank you'd want something compact like that in the close quarters of a tank or armored vehicle.
The bodyguards of Ronald Reagan had those UZI's in their pockets and took them out to shoot when he was shot.
That looked pretty impressive.
They actually carried them in a briefcase - in the full photo you can see the briefcase on the floor. The secret service agent in the foreground is trying to pull out the stock. He was called Robert Wanko, which was a memorable name.
A he still got shot lol
It looked like one of them were having a hard time getting the stock unfolded
Didn't do either of them much good against the lone off-radar nutter with a .22, did it?
Was that the mini uzi or full size?
my personal firearm in the army was a Uzi, even got shooter first class with it, accurate up to 200 meters single shot, its not just a submachinegun, learn to control it, its pretty cool, carried it for 4 years, never jammed, never a misfire, just awesome
Which army?
@@matarinio6412 Dutch.
Nice to hear that. There is a sadness to the Israel's need for cutting edge weapons. Without them and a professional, determined, well equipped and well trained army, this tiny country would cease to exist.
I wonder, does a gun at the auction house increase in value if they have the “been fired by Ian McCullum” tag attached? 😋
Ive never seen gun jesus spelt like that
It should have
Value goes up due to provenance
1:47 min. That’s a fairly good impression of an Austrian accent
It's a box that spits bullets and does it well.
A little compariosn
M1a1 grease gun:
Stamped sheet metal
Slow controllable rate of fire
Compact
Cheap and easy to manufacture
The uzi:
Stamped sheet metal
Relatively slow and controlled rate of fire
Compact and mobile
Cheap and easy to manufacture
The uzi is literally a newer version of the grease gun
The square off is basically house clearing but the IDF always taught the use of sights as the preferred use of the gun.
That first burst burst my bubble! Such an iconic weapon, I was expecting some loud Hollywood-style rapid-fire sounds! That gun is quiet! Thanks for the review, fella.
That looks just way to easy to blow through a hundred bucks worth of ammunition in just a few minutes, lol
Welcome to owning anything NFA? or at least anything full auto NFA
Yeah, that's pretty much the reality of full auto - even if you can afford to buy one, you probably can't afford to shoot it.
Worth renting one at least once and forking over the money for a lot of rounds for the day.
If you can't afford the stamp, you can't afford the ammo.
I cast and reload my own ammo, so the idea of shooting something in minutes that takes me *hours* to reload just doesn't exactly appeal to me.
But, I fully believe that everyone should be able to own full-auto firearms if they want them and are willing to waste that sort of money to waste on ammo. "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" means exactly that -- no exceptions, no government approval, go mandatory government tax on certain types of firearms or devices.
I fired the Sterling plenty, The MP5 as well but I have always wanted to use one of these. I like the "One hand will always find the other one" mantra.
The large bolt helps keep muzzle climb down, cyclic rate conttol- in both the carbine & pistol version. Enjoy.
That Arnold impersonation was on point
"Ian, give me your best Dracula impression"
Ian: 1:12
Fun fact: the designer of this weapon (Uziel gal) didn't want this gun to be named after him, But everyone denied his request.
Had the chance to play with one of these. Such a fun gun. As long as you're a halfway decent shooter the muzzle stays right where you want it.
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I will always have a fondness for the Uzi. Because it was the first smg I ever got to shot with.
My old personal weapon back in my militairy days. If you squeeze the trigger gently enough you could fire further rounds, even when it's in semi-auto mode.
The Dutch commando corps used to use them as well, mate of mine was one, said he loved the Uzi. Love the hand meets hand concept that was clever. A very innovative gun especially considering its contempories of just a few years earlier MP40, Stirling. I'd love to have a go with one.
Is "uh-blagh ulgh" the technical term?
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You make GREAT vids, Ian.
Lovely submachine gun, Had one more than 25 year for personal protection (Army). UZI's origin however is the Czech CZ model 25
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa_vz._23
I never fiered one myself, but I have always heard good things about it.
FWIW: I did NOT know the Uzi design was THAT OLD....
I had an imi semi auto in th e80s wonderful gun. i had to sell it due to nj laws in 1990. Wonderfully accurate.
'Hand meets Hand' sounds like a great idea actually
Was my standard gun as my time as an APC Commander in the german Army until it was taken out of service. I loved to shoot this little fella and it was precise as hell.
Never really cared for the Uzi as compared to other subs; however, the mini-Uzi at close range is almost magical.
Whatever antisemite
I was in Israel in the 80's and every time I asked about Uzi's the reply was always, we just use them for training the women!
The men were more impressed with Kalashnikov's
Israel never used Kalashnikovs though. I think at the time Israel mostly used the Galil rifle which is based on an upgraded Kalashnikov design and has a built-in bottle opener.
They used a Galil, not Kalashnikov...
Fire rate was a lot slower than I expected. Sounded like 600 - 800 RPM.
They're definitely sped up in games, probably to give the rate of fire advantage over assault rifles?
@@user_name_redacted I think game devs confuse them with the mac 10. Maybe that's why they give it such a high rate of fire?
nonam namrson or the fact that in most video games SMGs/PDWs have very high rates of fire, and they didn’t want outliers
@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 mini Uzi and micro Uzi have higher fire 950 rpm and 1200rpm respectively whereas the Uzi is 600 rpm
Mac 10 around 1020 rpm
In all my years, especially in the 1980s, I've only seen two of these in the semi-automatic versions at the shooting range.
I was fortunate enough to do some shooting with the US Secret Service and they let me play with and Uzi. Different than an MP-5 but lot’s of fun to shoot.
They should design a modern bullpup version of the Uzi that could host a way longer barrel.
Uziel Gal / Gotthard Glas / Gaál Gotthárd, what a truly amazing and interesting man in history: a German Jew of Hungarian Jew origin who settled in Israel and helped the fledgling nation to survive!
As Idf officer, Important Information. This submachine gun is very unsafe with unskilled hands. A magazine inside the rifle can release a bundle of shots if the rifle falls or gets hit hard enough. The IDF has stopped using it because of safety issues.
Never noticed Ian was a southpaw. I usually immediately notice a fellow lefty
....Uzininemeeleemeeter!!
Hmmm... one thing comes to mind with this "hand-to-hand-principle": if it would actually be SO dark that you wouldn't even find the magazine well on the gun in your hand, what would you even hope to aim at 😂?
1:12 made me a fan
Viv Israel! :)
This is the fender telecaster of guns. So ugly that it looks badass, simple as fuck, reliable
Get a czech ZK 476. That guns looks very familiar.
You should try the mexican mendoza Hm-3 sib machine gun
They were the balls around the 80s n 90s.
10/10 Arnold Schwarzenegger impression
UZI 9 MILLIMITA!
GET DAUWN
You know your weapons, buddy. So, which one will it be?
GET TOO THE CHOPPAAAAAAAAH!!
OneThousandEyes all.
Your impression of Schwarzenegger saying "Uzi 9mm" made my day.
Oozi nine millahmeetah
@@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs Someone needs to make an edit of that scene and change the audio to: " Hi - Point C9 " =)
Time stamp?
Waiting for Ian in 40 years time to say "phased plamsa rifle with a 40 watt range"
@@burhanbudak6041 Thank you
"a lot of people want to see me shoot from the hip" actually I'd rather see you shoot one in each hand like you're neo out to rescue Morpheus!
He's waiting to do that but with the actual guns, the mp5ks
I just want to hear you talk like Arnie..."...Uzi nine millimetre...!"
mp5k or it doesnt count.
No, the Terminator in Tech Noir. One-hand it and see what the muzzle does.
@@3starperfectdeer233
He had Micro Uzis as well as MP5ks and Scorpions.
"Da UZI 9 mili-meetuh..." -Terminator
Hahaha hilarious
You know your weapons, buddy!
12 gauge auhto loahda
Aku I think you mean “phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range”
@@RaferJeffersonIII It's down to this or picking up GarandThumb's challenge for the Halo rifle as the next April Fool's video.
Wow if the Germans adopted it, that's about the best compliment any machine maker could get.
Mr. Uzi was a mechanical maverick !
Hmmm, has this person actually WORKED with german made things? How about wonderfully engineered & manufactured....MISTAKES! Try telling your german company rep they used the wrong part! And that's not to mention the Audi, BMW, Mercedes & Porsche owners who all now the truth about "German quality" & the price they pay for it.
Dump Trump the quality is definitely amazing...but so is the price
@@bosknight7837 Lol "quality" doesn't break down from something catastrophic before 100,000 miles.
JoRgE Chavez quality doesn’t need its wheels reset every year
“If you have sights, It’s generally better if you use them”
80s action movie protagonist:yes
I think you have it backwards they're buddy
@@mike62mcmanus tends to work best when someone is shooting at you.....
I used to be an instructor on the Uzi in 1976, never once had a stoppage. I loved it.
@@olisk-jy9rz ? You seem rather knowledgeable about my life. Do tell me more
Oof size large
@@stephen9381 not sure what you mean? The Uzzi was of simplistic design with one moving part, (apart from the trigger group) which tended to slide backward and forward in the receiver with boring regularity as long as it was lubricated and not stuffed full of sand or other unwanted material, which would cause just about any firearm I know of to have some reliability issues, therefore you can hardly blame the Uzzi for it. Some magazine related stoppages occurred but it was avoidable as long as old worn magazines were not used. Some ammo-related stoppages did occur as well, but the SMG itself never really let me down.
@@losonsrenoster I think he's referring to olisk. You sure burned him on that one.
@@losonsrenoster Claims to have never experienced a stoppage. Then proceeds to list a bunch of stoppages 🤷♂️
Next do a phased plasma rifle in a 40watt range.
just what you see here pal
Nice night for a walk, eh?
At least rex removed his inhibitor chip and didn't try to kill obi-wan.
he did and the joke is tired
How about a DC-15? ;-)
Dad: how was your day son
Me: I saw Jesus shooting an uzi
;-;
Skin needs to be much darker but don't tell americans that!
@@shrayesraman5192 what
@@adonygrapes Jesus was definitely not white...
@Lo and Behold I didn't realize people from Pakistan were that white...
"Blehhh bleh" - Gun Jesus, 2018
1:12 - an iconic moment for Gun Jesus
read that, right at the same time I first heard him say it..
@@themandan4000 i love when stuff like that happens!
If you watch it out of context it gets even better.
Just keep listening too it over and over. I'm dying.
The Uzi was my service weapon during my time as a tank gunner at the Bundeswehr 30 years ago. I liked it a lot - smaller and lighter than the G3, much less recoil, accurate up to 150 meters. We still used the G3 for guard duty until someone decided that each guard detail should use its service weapon. From then on we went on guard duty with the Uzi - but for security reasons we got told to keep the mags in our pockets and not to charge the gun unless under threat. We were joking a lot about this -like challenging any intruders with "Freeze and don't move until I have put the mag in place!" 🤭
cant you carry it with the mag, uncocked? id imagine cocking can be done faster than reloading from a mag in your pocket, and an uncocked open bolt should be pretty safe.
Uhm, orders are orders!@@Almostbakerzero
@@Almostbakerzero afaik there was the fear that you could accidentally chamber and fire if you dropped it.
@@uffia.6817 I understand, I'm just curious about the mechanical aspect. I guess that maybe the safety can not lock the bolt in place while uncocked, but only lock it in the cocked position? That would mean when dropping the gun, the bolt could move just enough to chamber and fire a round without ever getting to the cocked and locked position. Or maybe they assumed that, if they allow the magazine inside, there will always be a dumbass who still cocks the gun.
@@Almostbakerzero Sorry, I don't know the answer, as a mere conscript I got taught to fire and clean various weapons but little about their intrinsic mechanics. When cleaning we were not allowed to dismantle certain sub-assemblies like triggers, safety or breechblock, that was the job of specialists.
Lost it at "UZI NEIN MEELEEMETAH", thanks for the laugh Ian
Gun Jesus prepares to clean the temple of the merchants. - 30AD colorized
I imagined him using the minigun instead. Now I know the truth.
can I like this comment twice
"It is written! 'My Temple will be called a house of prayer', but you have turned it into a den of thieves!" BRATATATAT
Al Lewis not sure why, but when I read this I heard it in the voice of McBain from the simpsons
I laughed way too hard
Had a really cool Uzi toy gun when I was a kid. Damn I wish I still had it. Yeah, back when people thought it was a good idea to give kids realistic toy guns. I miss those days.
I had the best and biggest toy gun collection on my block when I was a kid. Everyone came to my house to "play guns" I would always take 1st pick. Usually some type of machine gun and a pistol or 2. Then everyone else would pick. We boys would spend hours in our war games some days. I was in the toy gun section at the store a while back. Getting a birthday present for one of the grandkids. A young man and his mom came walking by. He was eyeballing the assorted weapons and pointed to one he really liked. His mom quickly said "You know we don't buy those things!". He dropped his finger and the excitement left his face as she walked him out of the isle. I wanted to buy him a toy gun myself. I'm sure she got him something "nonviolent". Like a doll or a dress. Poor little guy!
**pretends i don't have an attic filled with realistic gel blasters**
Yeah, those days were whimsical.....
Joke aside, i wish i could own a real steel one
@@shadowwolf7622 My best friend between the ages of 7 and 10 years old (circa 1978 - 81) had a toy* MP-40 Schmiesser and I had a pair of Lugers, (amongst several other guns - beautiful Colt Dragoon with revolving chamber was a favourite) all of which were metal and took caps - fantastic quality toys.
I'll never forget racing at full tilt round to his house after dinner so that I could claim the MP-40, before playing till dark through the gardens and back lanes (alleys).
He was very good at sharing the MP-40 while he took my M-16 (not as good quality as his - lots of plastic).
Great times wielding an MP-40 with a Luger sidearm while he had my period correct M-16 and Colt Dragoon.
I'd love to be transported back for a couple of hours of complete escapism.
*Toys, but beautifully made - being a little boy at the time I've no idea how accurately made they were, but there was some effort made - removable magazines on the M-16 and MP-40 and the Lugers had moving toggles.
Wonderful.
@@shadowwolf7622 On the subject of kids not being able to play with guns - I don't understand what these parents think they are achieving.
It's quite easy to argue that kids, (we'll say boys because it's usually boys) are going to end up more psychologically damaged, (for want of a better word) by being denied a toy, (and play experience) while the parents attempt to come up with a coherent reason for denying him.
It's not like saying, "sorry, we can't afford that" or some other reason that the kid should be able to grasp - there's really nothing that you could say that would make sense to a child.
When I was a young boy everyone played with toy guns......and bows & arrows, and catapults/slingshots, and rode bikes, climbed trees, made rope swings, disappeared for hours on end, and we definitely didn't all grow up to become violent or dysfunctional adults.
It's kinda sad that kids imaginations are being manipulated by parents who'd rather see them glued to a tablet in a stuffy room, rather than seeing them out exploring.....possibly even getting hurt - the horror!
I know exactly how this comment reads, but I can only imagine that the little boy being told that he can't have a gun will only end up full of resentment for his over-protective, mollycoddling, pain in the arse parents, and the parents will end up surprised at how it happened.
There's much about the world that is much worse than it was. I've got to many stories to even want to start ...
I will say one thing though - parents denying their child something they really want - make that thing precious - and by doing so - often produce exactly the opposite result of what they intended.
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i went to a "sounds of music" play in South Africa a few years back, when the nazi germans came in to the show they were holding UZIs, you can imagine how hard i was holding the laughter.
That one gif of maria with akimbo uzis i think
...ironic.
🤣😂 Hilarious! Probably went of the Heads of 99% of the audience who wouldn't have blinked an eye! There are Nazi era Coins with the Star of David Stamped on them! That made me question history!!👍😉
wow so a local Play house making a Musical about ANC , I mean Nazis running away Didn't have period correct sub machines.. You are a real hero for laughing out load no less, what a man..( i mean a little gay for seeing that play to begin with , but yeah you got them)..
@Monotech2.0 ANC socialist Marxist pigs slaughter everyone an kill their Nation..But I'm sure you know that already..
5:21 someone should take this and graft into an 80s action movie. Ian returning fire against a bunch of bad guys. Mowing them down.
And then him pausing when he runs out, talking about how well the gun performs while leisurely reloading amidst people trying to gun him down.
Hilarious
I'm inspired now... hold my coffee.
Or a poster
Als shot these when i was in the army. There were a few that would automatically switch from single shot to PRRRRRRR after 2 or 3 rounds.
Imagine Ian shooting at intruders in his house, narrating what his doing. “I am now out of ammo”
And yelling "If you're interested in getting yourself one, there are actually several of them in the upcoming James D. Julia/Rock Island auction house auction. Of course, they are fully transferable." at the end of the showdown. xP
"And the sinners are no more"
Hopefully he got them all with the first mag.
5:00 No that's not what we want to see. We want to see the proper Gangsta stance: Fold in the Buttstock, get a second Uzi and dual wield them, emptying the clips in one burst.
Uzi's don't use clips .
@@olisk-jy9rz doesnt matter
You mean John Woo style
@@Dirtbag-Hyena when you hold it gangsta style, you call it a clip to stay in character. Shooting it correctly, it becomes a magazine
@@greyklopstock7155 ✅
I have extensive experience with a full size collapsing stock Uzi on full auto. When you add a suppressor to it, the recoil is so minimal that on full auto at 100 yards I can put all 32 rounds on a paper plate.
Legend or Over Hyped?
Legend
We used it on 50 meters in the German army(early 90s) after the 3rd shooter we where no longer able to cover the 10. We just counted the misses from that point onward. There weren't many anyways.
@@spraynpray They jam more on truncated 9mm rounds. The smooth ones dont jam as much.
What perks are you using and what's your K/D?
@@MrUnderdogArt 14 k/d. Ghost, fast hands and juggernaut.
@@MrSpirit99 I shot with the UZI 1988, no recoil, good hit rate, but very unreliable safety mechanics. Drop it, and it will fire.
I had the great pleasure of attending an armourers course in Israel in 1984 on all IMI weapons and was taught the technical aspects of the UZI by the designer of the GALIL rifle Yisrael Galil... Vic
You look like you're about to be in Kane & Lynch 3
The movie that really comes to mind when I think of this gun is "The Wild Geese" starring Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger. Still love that movie to this day.
....shooting them off the side of the ship.....
Green berets
Aaahh! The Uzi! As a child growing up in the Netherlands, we alway went to a forest near by our house that was an military exercise area. The Dutch soldiers were armed with FAL'S, FN MAG's but mainly Uzi's. The forest was LOADED with 9mm blanks and we collect them of course. Later, when I was in the army, I shot the Uzi a few times (they were phased out by that time). I could easily hit half size man targets at 100 meters. We normally only shot semi auto BTW. We learned to shoot full auto from the hip with the stock against the upperleg and the left thump over the top cover. BTW there was another stock. Specialy build for the Dutch AF. It's the same contour as the wooden stock, but made from sheet steel. Nice video!
BertNL TD
BertNL Nee, Crailo bij Laren. Het oefenterrein en de schietbanen zijn daar al 20 jaar weg.
BertNL klopt. De Kolonel Palmkazerne. We hadden Soesterberg ook nog in de buurt met de Leuderheide.
When do you were in the Dutch army? Because I have an old Dutch steel helmet (those modeled after the American M1) that I bought at a flee market in Ostfriesland.
Did you still wear one of those helmets?
@BertNL It was in Aurich.
At first I thought it was a German helmet because the Bundeswehr had these kind of helmet shells for a while as well and it says "J. VIEL" (wich could be a German name) on the leather sweatband, but the guy who sold me the helmet told me it is Dutch and that matches with the liner and chinstrap design.
It also has Hessian fabrik under the cover net and a rubner band that is cut from a tire wich apparently was a widespread practice in the Dutch army at the time.
Ian, you should have been wearing a white leisure suit while shooting the gun!
Arizona Vice, hell yeah!
Don't get high on your own ammo supply!
Gold and chest hair.
With baby powder on his nose
the Arnold Schwarzenegger accent Lmao
dung nguyen It was pretty good (I'm Austrian BTW and a relative of mine actually taught Arnold)
Get back to da choppa!
Much better than his British accent in the "carbine or carbine" video. ;)
I was so surprised the uzi didn't come with Hollywood's endless magazine.
Or 1m muzzleflash
Hollywood seems to prefer three magazine types: 5,000 round, 10,000 round, and infinite. I love it when they shoot full auto for about five minutes and then suddenly they’re out of ammo… how do they get all those bullets in that little mag??
I shot an Uzi, MP5, and Colt 9mm, all full-auto, in a range session many years ago. The Uzi was definitely my favorite of the three, for all the reasons that Ian related. It also was the most compact, if I recall correctly.
I shot the MAC10, UZI, and the MP5 at a range in Georgia in the mid 80s. Hands down: the MP5. The UZI was friendly, the MAC10 was a 9mm pipe wrench, and the MP5 was a dream. This was shortly after the SAS took down terrorists with it. MP5 was king.
The MP5 is way better. It has a functional stock and way better ergonomics. Vertical pistol grips are ridiculous
And Gun Jesus said, “Uzi Does It!”, and it was good.
It sounds like a sowing machine
On a farm?
Sew sew
Hahahaha. I pictured Ian riding a tractor, pulling an air seeder. With an Uzi.
Fired by a reaper?
So?
Typical Ian. Rocking a French Camo.
Green CE camo is really cool
I feel like Ian kind of switches it up between that some type of Soviet get up and a typical World War 1 or World War II American GI set up
German fall camo ftw
cannonball666 Tactical short shorts required
FELIN smock
Wow. Watching it fire in slow-mo was cool as fuck. This channel rules. I’m not even particularly interested in firing/owning guns but learning the ins and outs of them sure is cool.
Has Ian covered the mp5?
First Last
Dont think so
Not really a weapon that needs it ya know
he didnt cover m4 and ar15 either
It isn't really forgotten.
Well, it's an iconic firearm, so it's reasonable for him to actually not covering it.
neither is the Uzi
About time, good enough for the secret service, good enough for me
They are finally moving to the M4. The SS is way behind in weaponry.
+Mists and Shadows In the case of Kennedy in Dallas? At the airport we see the secret service agents be told to step down from the back of Kennedys vehicle and they protest with putting their arms in the air. LBJ had 2 Secret service men over him at the first shoot through Kennedys throat. Not a single Secret Service agent is near Kennedys limo. The driver of Kennedys Limo is doing the exact opposite to what they are trained to do? Instead of pulling down the throttle and get out of there at the first shoot the driver actually slows down. (Notice the red lights indicating the driver pull the breaks at the Zapruder film)
The Stoned Videogame Nerd no the uzi was standard issue
Striker Orwell found the conspiracy theorist.
Salokin 2
It's absolutely adorable how Ian did the hip-fire thing "because [we] want to see it." 😏 Adorable.
A design consideration you didn't mention, but which also drove for simplicity - it had to be usable in the dusty desert environment along the Egyptian border and in the Sinai. So it needed to be very easy to disassemble and clean.
This also fed into that low, controllable rate of fire: a big bolt with lots of excess momentum could push through a certain amount of gunk in the mechanism, and reduced the rate of fire as a side effect.
Another thing that wasn't mentioned is that the Js stole the design from the Czechs.
as a fellow southpaw, it's interesting to see such a compact weapon not ejecting in your face.
I think all of us lefites are handier with the right hand than righties with the left hand.
Even though the L85 is dogshit, the Brits had the right idea when they trained their lefties to shoot right handed. Standardization is important afterall.
I am intrigued, since the dominant eye IMHO remains the same
I am a lefty, used to be left eye dominant, now I don't have a dominant eye. Maybe because I don't shoot as much as I used to and I stare at the computer screen all the time.
Giovanni Battista Ponzetto - I've shot many guns as a lefty and never had any brass hit my face.
Reminds me of the old joke: how to clear a room without handgrenades? Simply throw a loaded Uzi in.
I guess the safety at the grip was really necessary.
I shot the Uzi in 1984 with wooden stock and I too was surprised about how easy it was to stay on target while shooting. Of course it was almost as heavy as the assault rifle G3. ^^
Anton Chigurh is it heavier than A silenced shot gun? how about a cattle stunner?
1:11 well, that made me laugh out loud
1:44 was amazing haha xD
Jack Jacq lol
I dont remember commenting
I see Gun Jesus. I click like.
i thought that was Ted Nugent.
This gun was made in the country of Jesus
I've got the original worms theme going around in my head
James white Boggy B would be proud.
thanks
Love that game
The original Worms and Armageddon are the only good ones. All the modern ones are shit. Loved that game to bits. #MakeWormsGreatAgain
worms 3d tho
I had the pleasure of some full auto time on an Uzi in the Army and absolutely loved the very controllable, slower rate of full auto. It has a solid feel and heafty weight which eliminates recoil. It's a great weapon, and I can see why it was so popular.
Absolutely reflects my own experiences when firing the Uzi at the German military - really fun, controllable and pleasant gun to fire.
Just since our Uzi's all had 30+ years of service life the bolt catch was worn often so some where practical full auto only and others would not stop to fire after releasing the trigger... 😆 (either pull the Mag or wait till its empty in that case) may part of those uzi-as-a-granade ideas - they told us you need to secure the grip safety with duck tape for that to work...)
One thing I found very destinctive was especially when firing semi-auto you really notice the sound and feel when the bolt hits the back and that makes it sometimes feel and sound like it has double the fire rate.
Also the version with the wooden stock is quite heavy - almost same weight as the G3.
kunicross shooting at the Germans?
Uzi as a grenade? So you take a malfunctioning Uzi, trigger it, and throw it at the enemy?
If you’re grenading it you have to do the two hand heave like you would toss a German Shepherd at someone. If you can see that visual in your minds eye
I'm glad i never had to touch a Uzi after basic training. One exercise on the range was to shoot 10 rounds in 3 bursts (might misremember the actual numbers) and I managed to do 6 bursts. Not because I was a natural born shooter, but because the 30+ year old Uzi liked to jam.
Christopher Gebhard to be fair alot of weapons in basic training are worn to shit and treated terribly.
"When you have sights, its definitely best to use them."
"Thats what i love about wyat, he can talk himself into anything"
Don't forget that when defending a tiny country against an insurgency force, much of the fighting is going to be urban engagements, close-quarters combat and secretive counter-terrorism missions against defended compounds. They need something compact, highly reliable and easy to maintain in the desert. Not something that will blow combustion products into the bolt face and jam it out of battery.
What’s wrong with showing us the targets you’re shooting at & how accurate it is??
The slow motion takes were sweet though.
@@olisk-jy9rz Ian is a left-handed shooter . The Uzi isn't designed for left-handers. The first time that I fired one, the selector lever bounced off of the top of my firing hand.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 I'm fairly new to the gun scene but what I'm getting here is that guns don't like lefties?
@@dizzee6089 Let's face it, most people are right-handed. Some
armies, most notably Russia and
the U.K. are notoriously hostile to
left-handed shooters.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 there is no such thing as a left handed shooter in the British military, that's been the official stance since guns were used
@@Scrump_Can I'm not surprised.
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Really a no-nonsense weapon, built from the ground up by people who knew what they were doing and what they wanted.
The Israeli joke goes: If you need to clear a room, but don't have any grenades, cock the Uzi and toss it in. It will go off when it hits the floor and spin around until the mag is empty. Room cleared.
Remember the Uzi was designed in 1948 and entered production a couple years later, It was one of the most modern sub-machine guns to enter mass production. What else was around in the late 40's-early 50's? Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. The Uzi must have looked so compact and futuristic in comparison.
Not really. The Thompson, Grease, Sten, MP40 etc. were actually late 30s and early 40s type weapons. Hell, the Thompson and MP40 were actually 20s type weapons, that were just modified as time went on. The Uzi is an early 50s type weapon. That's a decade later. At that time new intermediate cartridges were coming into effect. No one really cared about SMGs anymore.
Ha, we used these in the 'mag' in sunny South Africa - I still remember my first impressions; quite heavy (that bolt is a big chunk of metal), the 'chugga-chugga-chugga' feel in full auto which was really easy to control, you can really feel the bolt moving backwards and forwards when firing, how quickly 25 rounds disappears in full auto even at such low rpm, and my personal favourite: the part where if you don't pull the charging handle quite far enough backwards for the bolt to engage the catches, how it could still pick up a round and fire it when you released the charging handle! To their credit, the instructors demo'd this very clearly (one too many bad experiences no doubt).
"It really is a good sub machine gun"
Somebody please tell the devs at Infinity Ward.