Official MM Firearms Thread

[CaptainHenreh]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99NHb6B03s

You know, I'm really tired of seeing that video. I probably get it sent to me by somebody 3 or 4 times a week (I'm not singling you out, Thayer) and I just don't get it.

From a practical standpoint, the ergos suck, it's no better than carrying a concealed weapon, and it's an NFA item (short barreled rifle). There is positively no point to it at all...

It might be interesting if no one had thought of it before, but it was done, and by our very own Eugene Stoner (pbuh) in the 1980's Ares Folding Machine Gun:



(Images are actually of the Boatman M21, which might as well be a direct copy of the Ares, source: World Guns)

Even the Russians did it with the PP-90 SMG:


But there's a reason you don't see plain metal boxes hanging off SWAT belts, or carried in secret service suitcases: It's because they completely SUCK. The ergos suck, the accuracy sucks, and the only *good* thing about it is that it's full auto...but after '86 they couldn't be manufactured for public consumption anyway. A compact pistol is infinitely better in every respect, and oh yeah, isn't stupid. If you need a submachine gun, I don't recall Reagan's bodyguards needing dumb transformer machineguns to get the job done, they just pulled Uzis from their jackets:



And also, I am bored