Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms amnesty

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms amnesty Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms amnesty - 11/21/2017 3:01:06 PM   
JohnDillworth


Posts: 3100
Joined: 3/19/2009
Status: offline 		https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/world-war-two-machine-guns-among-140-firearms-handed-to-police-during-giveupyourgun-campaign-a3696836.html

_____________________________

Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat Speech to UN General Assembly
Post #: 1
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/21/2017 5:00:27 PM   
Smoky Stoker


Posts: 87
Joined: 3/25/2011
Status: offline 		The tripod-mounted heavy MG pictured may be Japanese, but the LMG is a Bren gun, a British weapon equipping units from 1936 until 1991.

_____________________________

"Leveling large cities has a tendency to alienate the affections of the inhabitants and does not create an atmosphere of international good will after the war." -Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery

(in reply to JohnDillworth)
Post #: 2
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/21/2017 5:56:55 PM   
DRF99


Posts: 90
Joined: 9/3/2009
Status: offline 		It's likely a Japanese Type 99 LMG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_99_light_machine_gun

Looks a lot like a Bren gun.

(in reply to Smoky Stoker)
Post #: 3
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/22/2017 6:41:39 AM   
Barb


Posts: 2503
Joined: 2/27/2007
From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Status: offline 		Both Type 99 LMG and Bren can trace their lineage to the Czech ZB vz.26 - Type 99 LMG via Type 96 LMG to captured Chinese ZBv26 and Bren via Czech ZGB33 license adopted for British use from the same ZBv26. Similarity is to be expected here...

_____________________________


(in reply to DRF99)
Post #: 4
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/22/2017 7:48:39 AM   
adarbrauner

 

Posts: 1496
Joined: 11/3/2016
From: Zichron Yaaqov, Israel; Before, Treviso, Italy
Status: offline 		The heavy MG itself derives by the Hotchkiss model (from 1st world war) to which it strikingly resambles...

(in reply to Barb)
Post #: 5
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/22/2017 2:26:08 PM   
m10bob


Posts: 8622
Joined: 11/3/2002
From: Dismal Seepage Indiana
Status: offline 		After WW2, my dad brought back hundreds of firearms from the ETO, including an MP40, (always mis-labelled as a "schmeisser")..
At that time many G.I.'s opted to "DEWAT" the machine guns by plugging the barrels with cement, etc.


Are our friends in the U.K. allowed to keep historical firearms?

_____________________________




(in reply to adarbrauner)
Post #: 6
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/22/2017 3:36:44 PM   
crsutton


Posts: 9590
Joined: 12/6/2002
From: Maryland
Status: offline 		Over fifty percent of the weapons turned in were air pistols. Pretty much shows the differences between our societies.

_____________________________

I am the Holy Roman Emperor and am above grammar.

Sigismund of Luxemburg

(in reply to m10bob)
Post #: 7
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/23/2017 12:25:40 AM   
Gregg

 

Posts: 143
Joined: 7/26/2004
Status: offline 		Neither of these machine guns are Japanese.

The tripod mounted HMG is a Hotchkiss, likely a British manufactured copy, built on licence.
It is not a Japanese Type 92 Nambu HMG.

The other LMG is a Bren Gun, no ifs ands or buts about that.

I own a live registered T99 and a live registered Mark I Bren Gun.
Although the T96 & T99 Japanese LMG's and the Bren Gun share a common ancestor, the Czech ZB26, the guns are very different externally and internally.

Both were commonly used in WWII and the Bren Gun was also used in Korea and Viet Nam.
So having them turn up in an English gun turn in event, is not at all surprising.

Gregg


< Message edited by Gregg -- 11/23/2017 1:45:41 AM >

(in reply to crsutton)
Post #: 8
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/23/2017 9:59:15 AM   
GetAssista

 

Posts: 2732
Joined: 9/19/2009
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: m10bob
After WW2, my dad brought back hundreds of firearms from the ETO, including an MP40, (always mis-labelled as a "schmeisser")..

What, like, was he allowed to ship in a whole container full of firearms?

(in reply to m10bob)
Post #: 9
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/23/2017 12:54:19 PM   
JohnDillworth


Posts: 3100
Joined: 3/19/2009
Status: offline 		thanks for the clarification!

_____________________________

Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat Speech to UN General Assembly

(in reply to Gregg)
Post #: 10
RE: 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms a... - 11/23/2017 2:15:27 PM   
m10bob


Posts: 8622
Joined: 11/3/2002
From: Dismal Seepage Indiana
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: GetAssista

quote:

ORIGINAL: m10bob
After WW2, my dad brought back hundreds of firearms from the ETO, including an MP40, (always mis-labelled as a "schmeisser")..

What, like, was he allowed to ship in a whole container full of firearms?



He sent many home a piece at a time in some cases. He told me this verbatim.
I have photos of his collection, which filled a couple of (then) standard issue footlockers.
The collection included Lugers with matching clips, broomhandle Mausers, Walthers of every description and several machine guns.

When he learned he was not able to keep the machine guns, he sold at least 5 to the Greensburg Indiana Police Department.
He hung onto one of those MP39-40's until roughly 1961.
Aside from some of the smg's, my brother and I had fired and become familiar with every common military small arm from that war, (and a few from WW1, like that clumsy French Chaut Chaut, lol.
I served in the Rangers in my war and the knowledge was invaluable on out team.

_____________________________




(in reply to GetAssista)
Post #: 11
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> 2 Japanese machine guns handed in during firearms amnesty Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

5.063