Thread: MP 44

1945 manufacturing.

I don't pay for the keyboard when it is damaged by drooling.

WOW. How'd you get your hands on one of those? Family heirloom? Battlefield pick up?

Hot damn man, beautiful.

Will you at least pay for a new pair of pants?

I read your response in the AK pic thread, and I must say I am utterly shocked. It must be next to impossible though for the govt. to issue you the license I'm sure.

While, I can never say that any country's gun laws are as good as the US, we do have as you mentioned an idiotic "once a machinegun" rule, as well as an 86 MG ban. So, the few that are still available and can be transferrred will cost a very high premium.

EDIT: I just got done looking at all your pics. It looks like I'm gonna need a summer house in France or something. Very nice collection you have there.

The price tag for an MP40 start at $18,000 and go up in the US.

Isn't that called "StG-44"?

Regardlesly, yes I've soiled my underwear...

Is it fully functional(I've seen many with barrel filled with lead in the past....)

What you describe is the old US dewat. Here it has to be done by the National Proof House. This one is now deactivated on the wall of a collector's house.
I converted this other one to semi auto for a shooter. It was not as good, war relic from Normandy battlefield.

NICE! the original EVIL assault rifle

I still don't pay for damaged keyboards..

The Volkssturmgewehr 1-5 is a 7.92 x 33 mm (7.92 mm Kurz) caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Nazi Germany during World War II. Also known as the VG 1-5, Volkssturm-Gewehr 1-5, Versuchs-Gerat 1-5 and "Gustloff." It was intended to be used by the Volkssturm militia.
Volkssturmgewehr 1-5 used a gas-delayed blowback action based on the Barnitzke system, whereby gas bled from the barrel near the chamber creates resistance to the rearward impulse of the operating parts, which ceases when the projectile leaves the muzzle, allowing the operating parts to be forced rearward by the residual pressure of the cartridge case. This principle has been used most successfully in the Heckler & Koch PSP or P7 pistol.
The VG 1-5 is constructed rather like many automatic pistols, it has a casing and spring around the barrel and the whole casing recoils backward. The breach block, with firing pin and extractor, is pinned to the back end of the barrel casing. The rear end of the gun does not recoil and has the hammer, sear and trigger built into it. Gas coming from four vents, near the end of the of the barrel hold the bolt closed till the gas pressure drops to a safe level. The VG 1-5 used the same 30 shot 7.92 x 33 mm (7.92 mm Kurz) caliber magazine as the Sturmgewehr 44. Some selective-fire VG 1-5 were made.