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The US Army rejected the claim, since the Germans were complaining about pure lead shot (which is NOT military grade in America) whereas the Winchester trench guns were always loaded with copper-plated shot (in compliance with the Hague Convention, none of the pellets expand upon impact).Um. The US began looking for a cost-effective replacement for the Thompson submachine gun in 1942, and the “Grease Gun” was the result.

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Yes far more reliable than the M-16s which were being used at that time!Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email.Enjoy what you read on Forgotten Weapons? The M3 was intended as a replacement for the Thompson, and began to enter front line service in mid 1944.

US Army doctrine still doesn’t like placing full auto fire in the hands of every front-line trooper as evidenced by the M16A2 three shot burst position replacing the full auto. The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted for U.S. Army service on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. The rest of the Battalion (Combat Engineers and Support Troops) had M16A2 or M9 Beretta for individual weapons, plus all the crew served. The “Grease Guns” remained in service with police forces until the early 1990s, notably in South and Central America.Interestingly, during the Philippine civil conflict in the early 1970s under the Marcos regime’, both sides (government and leftist would-be revolutionaries) employed gangs of late teen/early twenties gunmen who carried their weapons in guitar and violin cases (I think they got the idea from watching Warner Brothers gangster movies). There’s little that doesn’t need to be there.

Vehicles. The Ingram M-10 addressed the bulk and weight issues by compact design and its high cyclic rate marked this as an expert’s weapon–the 9mm editions were considerably quieter than 9mm pistols (about as loud as rimfire small bore rifles) and didn’t sound like gunfire.

During the mid 1970s tank drivers of the 1st Battalion 67th Armored attached to the 2nd Armored Division were issued the M3A1, because of its size and portability.The M3 operating sequence is as follows: the bolt is cocked to the rear using the cocking handle located on the right side of the ejector housing. Who would be smiling and saluting politely, and returning those big kukris to their sheaths, once they were sure you weren’t Germans or Italians.”He nominated the Ghurkas as “the scariest guys in the Western Desert”.“Iwo Jima’s defenders were hardly even scratched before the US Marines got on the beach because the Japanese underground bunkers were practically battleship-proof.”Iwo Jima was the debut of the M4A3R3 “Zippo”, which was the first factory made American flamethrower tank. As late as the Sixties some of the old ships in service had Springfields and even old Reisings.

Then it becomes complicated. “franktireurkrieg.” They shot lots of Belgians for similar reasons, even if they clearly understood that the middle-class “Garde Civique” militia was quite a bit like their Landsturm… The guys who used poison gas first, invented the flame-thrower, and every now and then sank a hospital ship or similar were dissuaded from taking punitive action against American personnel with or without shotguns by threats of reprisals… “Shoot our guys, and we’ll start with yours…”There are accounts of German machine gunners in the Meuse Argonne firing every single cartridge that they were supplied with, and then standing up and surrendering. Grease Gun: Examining the M3/M3A1 Submachine Gun The M3’s steel stick magazine held 30 rounds and often required a loader due to stiff spring tension. That’s where that oddball dustcover/safety once again comes into play, because with the dustcover closed the bolt is still contained while the barrel is removed.Clearly a lot of thought that went into the engineering of the M3.

During the Fifties, the Soviets discovered something amazing–their “submachine gun” was capable of doing everything their carbine was capable of and so the Soviet squads went to RPD and AK exclusively.
Blueprints for 3D modeling . M3 Submachine Gun magazines were provided with rubber or plastic caps to keep that grit out of loaded magazines.

$4.00. The unit involved would have been on its own because of priorities.

A carbine version with a 16.5 inch barrel and a collapsible stock is also available. (Folding-stock M1A1 carbines were pretty much exclusive to the airborne forces.) Please consider The misfeeds which I encountered were directly attributable to a bad magazine.I recently saw one in a local museum, it was a long barrel variant with a muzzle break and it has a bloody history behind it..and the museum labeled it wrong, it was written as a M1 Thompson SMG.From 1969-1971, two years I carried a M3A1 all the time in Vietnam, I had two, one with the normal barrel and the other with an Ithica “silencer” as they were called in those days. I only read about the M231 and didn’t handle one. They all affected “mod” dress and long hair. I felt like such a bad ass. The Grease Gun was designed to replace the heavy and expensive to produce Thompson submachine gun. M3A1 Grease Gun IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

To date, only one 9 mm conversion kit for the M3A1 has been discovered.Because it had already been issued in large numbers, the existing M3 magazine design was retained, despite demonstrated deficiencies exposed during the weapon's firing trials and its early combat service.Initially, M3 submachine guns returned for repair were not upgraded to the M3A1 standard, but merely inspected to ensure they had the improved M3 housing assembly and magazine release shield.In 1945, the Guide Lamp factory manufactured 15,469 M3A1 submachine guns before production contracts were canceled with the end of the war. The magazine for the M3 submachine gun was modified (I forget how) and used in the Ingram M-10 submachine gun–which had almost three times the cyclic rate of the Grease Gun. The limited mission was preventing infantry from swarming the AFV and detonating satchel charges against the armor, and Bradley IFV’s were expected to delouse Abrams tanks and other Bradley IFV’s in street fighting because the limited fire fan from the gun ports didn’t cover all approach angles to the Bradley.In my opinion the biggest problem with the M3 and M3A1 Grease Gun was tactical doctrine.