![]() Link posts require a detailed description in the comments. Violating the following rules will result in post removal and possibly a ban: ![]() Users of illegal substances are advised not to post in /r/guns. Ghosting your own post will get you a timeout. If you make a post, stick around and participate in your thread. Obvious troll account will be shown the door. No surveys, polls, GoogleDocs etc without pre-approval. Also, no we don't know where to find that thing you're looking for in stock, so don't ask. No conducting firearms-related transactions or fundraising No asking questions about illegal firearms modifications. Links to PDF files are allowed but must carry a warning. ![]() No posting personal information (doxxing). r/guns is for talking about guns, not gun issues. No politics except in the Bi-weekly politics threads. Until shortages subside, photos depicting only ammunition will be removed. No memes, phone/PC screenshots, image macros, rage comics, blogspam, facebook/instagram/twitter/4chan/tictok content, petitions, low-effort links, or the like. Violating the following rules will result in an immediate ban (zero tolerance) Shoot the matches! Pistol | Glass | Milsurp Megathread of the day: Thickheaded Thursday | Politics I seem to recall that there was tank ammo that they re-purposed which was basically remanufactured in-theater, before being issued out to our tankers.Welcome to /r/guns! Please read the rules, the FAQ, and search before posting. I find the idea that they’d captured so much Italian ammo so as to make this a no-brainer a bit of a question mark–Very, very few Ordnance types are trusting enough that they’d OK use of such captured stocks without extensive work being done to ensure that the captured ammo wasn’t sabotaged. The STEN basically happened because the Lanchester was too expensive to build, and the Lanchester was, if I remember rightly, basically a copy of the MP18/28 family in inch-pattern. It might simply be that it was easier to reverse-engineer the German magazines and weapons, rather than develop something new. ![]() I’d wager that there are probably papers outlining the reasoning. RE: British adoption of the 9mm P cartridge… One has to wonder how much effect the idea of being able to use captured German ammunition in case of an invasion of the British Isles had, and if the eventual use of the Inglis Hi-Powers had any influence on it all? ![]()
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