More Machine Gun Pics

Ah, the MG42. 1200 rounds a minute. Shoot a few hundred belts through it and you can light a cigarette off the barrel. According to wikipedia: "So distinct and terrifying was the weapon, that the United States Army created training films to aid its soldiers in dealing with the psychological trauma of facing the weapon in battle." And I have seen that film. It's less scary hearing it from the end I was on.

Like the hat? It keeps hot brass offa me dome.

And the MP40. It shoots 9mm and the recoil is as gentle as a kitten. If any machine gun were to tempt me to covet it, it would be one like this. Jeff Cooper wrote about a news report where they found an MP40 in a wall in Belgium 50 years after WWII. It was cocked and ready to go with a full magazine. And it worked with that ammo and those compressed spring as well as it did in the 1940s.

I count 3 brass casings in the air...