Pretty much!

Sometimes I am proud to be Czech. This is one of those times lol

​@@StepicaI love the guns your country made

Sad they won’t make more

I bet they don't have to ask him twice!

God dammit, now I know what I've seen maybe two years ago in the evening sky. Thanks a lot! 👍

With the naked eye admist light pulluted town centre no less, goes well with a bottle of wine fir star shooting night experience

I'm not saying it was Czechs, but it was Czechs.

Lmao you’re not wrong, those things launch them straight up 🤣

That had me laughing! Didn't even notice until you pointed it out...but holy cow!

How to confuse privates on range cleanup detail: when there magically ain't no brass anywhere in sight to be policed up

It's junk dude, believe me you don't want....

Ian is our Gun Jesus and he sets an example for us to follow.

bc if he didn't say it he'd get crucified by all the youtube fact checkers. He is gun Jesus after all.

"You Won't BELIEVE What Happened When I Shot This CALL OF DUTY 4 Gun!!!"

Ian does that all the time, when his expectations for a gun aren't met (so either way better or way worse), he tells it how it is, he doesn't pander to the audience or the makers of certain guns! If Ian is not satisfied with a weapon, he says why that is and often he even thinks about ways to mitigate or fix that...it's one of the things I respect him for, the other being that he admits it when a gun fully justifies the hype (like when he was allowed to shoot a full-auto Fallschirmjägergewehr 42 (FG42!), which tamed the recoil of the full power 8mm Mauser-Cartridge very well and stayed controllable even on full-auto fire!)

My favorite part about Ian is that he doesn't use any dumb words or phrases even though he's having fun. A certain KZfaqr said about operating a Thompson: "You keep the trigger held down until you run out of shooty shoots." This was said by a guy who is at least 40. You'll never hear Ian say that.

There are very few SMGs that live up to the hype they recieve, this is one.

Honestly, the Skorpion is genuinely one of the best guns I've ever used, alongside a HK417. It's a fantastic piece of kit, so I can only imagine how great a 9mm one would be.

Those of us of a certain age remember our first exposure to the Skorpion as the Klobb from GoldenEye 64. Many misunderstandings probably come from that game (in which the Klobb was a terribly inaccurate pea-shooter). We know better now, of course.

I am kind of surprised that they never found a market with someone like the palace guards to Saudi princes or the Sultan of Brunei or other organizations where cost is no problem.

Here we need to remain about Polish rak

@@markkelly6259 American Secret Service close protection teams for the President used to carry concealed Uzi's. This would seem like a better option but I guess they only had .32 Skorpions when they were using the Uzis. Nowadays they probably have P90's or something similarly advanced.

@@silverjohn6037 plus there was the whole Iron curtain factor

@@silverjohn6037 According to Wikipedia, FN P90, HK MP5, Remington 870 and Sig P229 are the most common issued firearms. The latter P229 being replaced by a Glock variant (probably the Glock 19). Edit: Again, according to Wikipedia. The P229 is being replaced by the Glock 19 MOS Gen 5.

Cost is the reason for its lack of popularity. Yes, it performs fantastically well, but because of the greater mechanical complexity that inevitably comes with making such a compact, select-fire gun work in 9x19, the cost was likely deemed prohibitive by all the gun's prospective customers. Other, simpler designs offered good enough performance much more economically.

Expensive for what it was, as I understand it.

And that's _why_ they were made illegal.

@@Hibernicus1968 I know all this. Everything else in its power class is still significantly larger in one way or another. The only exception I can think of is the MP5K, and you need to brace it with a sling and be in shape to control it without a stock. This just gives you one instead and let's you go to town. Size is still a big consideration even today, and all the PDWs that are this small, come with some downside which hinders performance. Seems like the only downside here was cost, and that's not always a factor for some. I'm sure USSOC tested this thing as well lol

@@TheOriginalFaxon Yeah, but CZ couldn't go into production unless they had a lot of people willing to buy. Apart from special operations people, who can pick pretty much what they want, militaries aren't generally concerned with providing the very, very best small arms bar none. They want _enough_ performance, at reasonable cost, with good long-term reliability, since they're going to be arming thousands of people. A gun that offers 20% more performance, but costs 40% more per unit, is generally not going to make the cut if the next competitor meets the specified criteria without that extra 40% per unit cost. And though the spec ops guys might love to have this thing, when enough other customers don't materialize to enable CZ to make a profit producing it, the spec ops guys won't get it either.

Next he must shoot the 380 one.

The original Skorpion took advantage of the lighter recoil from the .32 ACP round. I had wondered if the basic design could have been upgraded to 9mm, but I was betting against it working. The rate reduction mechanism worked well, but I did not think it would survive with in great "kick" it would get from 9mm.

Are we really surprised there was a chorus of bells for Gun Jesus and full auto mag dumps?

Well naturally. :D There's a catholic church in every village here. Although they don't ring their bells every 15 minutes (exceptions apply), but a Sunday noon is pretty much reliable. I recommend visiting Uherský Brod, it's a pretty little border town on a low hill in a flat landscape. Border mountains looming on the horizon.

They did sell it to the civilian market and not many people bought it because it was expensive, according to the first video.

In what scenario is this (in semi-auto) the best choice, really? Let’s be honest: there really is not a market for this here, other than for collectors.

I don't know about .32 ACP being an issue. No one argues that a blast of 00 buckshot from a twelve gauge is deadly. Double ought translates to .33 caliber and using less ballistically efficient round balls rather than conical projectiles. A standard 00 shot shell caries 9 pellets but because of the spread you won't likely hit with more than 5-6 beyond point blank range. If the Skorpion really is as easy to shoot as Ian is saying that would mean you should be able to get 5-6 shots off pretty quick. So not the most powerful combination but a long way from useless.

@@silverjohn6037 shotgun spread for buckshot is generally 1 inch per yard travelled down range. So at typical home defense distances a competent shooter should be capable of keeping all pellets on target.

@@silverjohn6037 plus there are some decent self defense loadings for 32 acp, like the lehigh extreme cavitators/penetrators

The cost may go down as a pcc in the US. No automatic means no rate reducer means easier and cheaper to produce.

There would also be a big limitation for current market - the top ejection would make it quite difficult to mount optics.

Yeah! Didn’t expect that.

Locks up? I thought they were open bolt.

@@eamonia closed bolt, just look at it

@@eamonia That is a closed bolt machine gun. Look at the slow-mo clips 3:35 and watch the ejection port and direction it travels when firing. It starts and ends its cycle in the closed position. It also locks the bolt back on the last round fired.

@@noquartergiven7789 No shit. I always just assumed that it was open bolt. Being that it's a 9mm. I guess that's why it's so easy to control. When you don't have to deal with your shot placement being disrupted by the bolt slamming forward and throwing your shot off, it makes perfect sense. That answers my next question then.

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine God damn it guys. I get it. I'm drunkenly trying to respond to all of you guys right now. I'm working with one eye here and every other word I type, I have to retype because I keep missing the keys I'm going for. I wish I recorded me trying to do this right now.

I just rewatched the video Ian did on it. It's night and day. Both the gun and the video.

Robert 😊👋

We will all drool

I believe the B&T MP9 is currently the best SMG of this size. It's my favorite PDW. The MP7 and MP9 are definitely a generation ahead of the Mini-UZI and Micro-UZI and vz68/Skorpion 9×19mm. Lightweight polymer construction, and not just a simple blowback action that adds weight and recoil. The MP7 is larger than the MP9. The MP7 competes more with guns like the FN P90 or IWI X95. Like them and the Mini-UZI, it's more a briefcase gun than a holster gun. The Skorpion, Micro-UZI, and MP9 are true holsterable SMGs that could be carried in a holster off the belt or possibly concealed under a jacket. They're all a little bit dated and I'd like to see something really modern. This is the only kind of SMG that hasn't been outclassed by compact assault rifles like the IWI X95, which are superior to traditional SMGs in most roles. But they're not small enough to wear them in a holster on your person like the small PDW SMGs.

Throw in a 30-rounder curved magazine, a threaded barrel, allow for acommodation of reflex/red-dot sights and strengthen the gun to use hotter loads and it would make for a really good concealed carry machine pistol.