honestly wish I went to Croatia just for shop class.

When my dad taught shop class back in the '60s, he had to be on constant lookout for students doing 'side projects'...

I'm sure if your mom is like mine, she told you to never ditch a class. Mom is always right.

Not illegal where I live. I was even on our high schools shooting team.

That was Tuesday after lunch....

A guy in my Junior High shop class made a 22 caliber slam fire zip gun, turned the metal parts in metal class and carved the stock in wood class. Instructor took it away from him at time of final assembly. We never did find out if it would work.

There is an occasional urge to see what one can find at Lowe's or Home Depot...

​@@petesheppard1709P A Luty did just that. They're not complicated. You could *simplify* an FGC-9 and get an effective smg.

@@alun7006 Yep. That's why SMGs are often the first weapons produced by a budding arms industry.

KIS (aka "the Liquidator") was a very cool little SMG made in Poland (Saint-Cross Mountains) in 1943, inspired by the STEN but simplified. And it looked a little like this one too… :)

@@GazalAlShaqab How the hell do you simplify a STEN?

Yeah, my half croatian half hungarian phys-ed teacher used to fake paperwork for hungarian aks and shit like that... imagine a bunch of crates labeled as tinned spinach or some shit was semt over full of the worst imaginable aks ever... but hey an ak is an ak.

Forged in fire but with boomy booms?!?! I think that might make a great TV series for the US

a hammer, file, and drill would probably be enough? with some scraps around.

​@@davefellhoelter1343 Add at least a saw, and you might get something. Not good, but something.

We agree with this guy, but no one talks about his profile picture

@@davefellhoelter1343 welder too

Same from Argentina!

same from romania

For newer videos, I have a feeling it's auto generated by video editors like modern copies of Adobe Premiere have this feature. The result is much better than KZfaq's and really good. But this is just a feeling, not a matter of fact.

@@WingMaster562 yeah a youtuber that the main job was video editing told me that about text Adobe editing, but this "auto text module" is not widly use. Maybe it's what we see when there are " I..." instead of "i i i i" when someone is searching in their memories things to follow their phrase. Many youtubers have a script (like, for instance, a 20 or 40 minutes video about history, or anything around knowledge) and with last Gen software and computer fast enough handle 4K video editing, it should be nice if they just had to put a .pdf/.txt/.docx/.odf document in a text module of the video editor, "and *voilà* " (like English speakers love to say 😁😁😁) !

@@Vin_San I've heard KZfaq actually has support for automatically converting scripts into subtitles, using its speech to text to line everything up. No idea how good it is or if it's even still a thing (remember visible dislikes?)

Lively to see that ustasha inspired inscription on the gun. It kind of shows the ideology behind the designer.

There were only like 5 ever made, only 2 of those were firing examples, and they are all in the ministry of defense collection, which we weren't able to get into at the time.

@@sevenus82 serb tractorista detected

​@@sevenus82jesus where tf did ian go this time, when i searched on the net for translation of krvolok it said bloodthirsty and also... executioner. His half assed translation kinda worries me.

​@@robertkalinic335should've looked for Graf Krolock 🧛🏼‍♀️

@kevinweinz2790tough call. maybe 12? lol

Level 35: Strąpoć

+1, he could even stay in our apartments!

there's a lot more coming :)

English closest thing would be "berserker". But in the context of the inscription, krvolok is also given as a nickname...kinda hard to describe but in english "gansta'", "badass", "mafioso" they're technically negatives, but we use them as endearing nicknames.

@@Rebel635csi Berserker is indeed a solid hint, but on the other hand, in the Balkans we don't really have a word for berserker.

@@unlearningcommunism4742 i know we dont, but I think the idea of the use of the word fits. The English use would be “seeing red” or “red mist” but we don’t have a “someone who sees red”, but a Berserker IS that someone. Who during combat, or any amped up situation goes Blood lust on everyone.

@Rebel635csi or "the darkness has fallen upon his eyes" X) Slavic languages are simply not compatible with English. I wanted to use some of our poetry as memes, however, one single line in our language often requires one paragraph in order to keep the meaning. Imagine translating Blago's "you will find the key obviously hidden inside the window frame". Rhythm of this is plain ugly, and nobody would get the whole absurdity of locking the door and leaving the key.

@@unlearningcommunism4742 lud ko kurac? :D

Some schools are better than others.

My favorite is "fiddlybit".

In America it's completely legal to make your own guns. You just can't make it fully automatic, semi auto is fine, and you can't sell it, unless you get a license and put a serial number on it. Some states like California and New York have some additional laws on it. Most states are not a problem.

Its not just about being a home gunsmith. Too much regulation and burocracy limits the innovation potential of mankind in terms of technological development. You need permits and licenses for everything. Radios, equipment, medicine, chemicals and even some alloys... Fake illusion of safety created to make ourselves believe we are safe. Big brother always protects us, keeps us safe so we should be grateful to him we shouldn’t oblige and continue paying our taxes. We should leave these “dangerous” things only to big companies with ties to our rulers to profit of don’t we...

​@@thekraken1173ok have fun dying in the ocean Stockton Rush

Funny how governments appeal to their subjects to take up arms and go to war. Then as soon as the panic is over the authorities immediately disarm their loyal population. You'd think folk would wise up.

"...Or even not so nice things!" 😆Lol!

Yeah. It is so weird to me some places don't considered the barrel the main functional part and instead say the receiver or the action. No, the barrel is the main functional part. It builds and contains the pressure propelling the bullet. Plus it is not at all "just a simple tube". Unless it's a simple shotgun. Any rifles most precision and hardest to produce part is it's barrel. Everything else is secondary to the tolerances, precision and accuracy needed to make a good safe, reliable and accurate barrel. Specially a long rifle barrel. Having to maintain that accurate consistency for that long is extremely hard. Major makers just make it seem easy, since they have literally century of experience and such massive economies of scale. Oh barrels.... there runs the full stable of radial cold forging machines with specialty hard carbide rifling mandrel and hammer dies. Yeah it makes barrels on a conveyor. Oh why so big? well it has hammering power of at minimum 100 tons per strike and it strikes multiple times per second.

@@aritakalo8011eh it’s becoming increasingly easier to manufacture barrels for straight wall cartridges now.

@@justforever96 yah not even close to what I’m talking about. Look up FGC 9 and how it’s barrel is made. Doesn’t require any heavy tooling and can be done literally in your home. You have no clue what you’re talking about.

@@aritakalo8011 i believe the UK and some parts of Europe do this, where they register the pressure-bearing parts, particularly the barrel, as you say it is the most difficult part of the firearm to produce.

This is hardly a Forgotten Weapon, for most people outside of Croatia its a Never Heard Of weapon. Thanks to Ian & the Sisak Museum for bringing this to us

"We" as is whom? Which collective?

@@WingMaster562 we as the rest of the world

@WingMaster562 We, as in: We, the people from Yugoslavia. I was 100% sure that if the video is about a gun made in Croatia, "we" means we from Croatia

@@unlearningcommunism4742 ah thanks for the reply. I didnt realize you're from Croatia as well. Like the other comment reply, some people think contrary to what you're 100% sure of, and think "we" as in internationally. Thats why I asked for clarification to prove for them.

True for uk

@luxlucius That would be the literal translation of "krvožeđ", while "krvolok" meaning is closer to someone who revels in shedding blood of others.

Bloodsucker. The translation of the word krvolok is bloodsucker. Bloodthirst and bloodlust do not have word for word equivalents in Croatian. Closest is "žeđ za krvlju", literally thirst for blood. Krvolok means bloodsucker.

@luxlucius Ili blood drinker, taman se sjetio i tog :P

@@ivanivanovic5586 If I understood it correctly, "you should taste my onion, the eggs are lovely" takes a whole different meaning in Croatian.

They're a full member of NATO with all that entails.

if you google Croatia 925 . you will see that a lot has been taken from us and we're being suppressed for centuries but that strength of Croatian spirit eventually won

there's a lot more on the way :)

​@@JordanFlayerInside information?

@@mynick937 yup 😝

@@JordanFlayer Don't get fired 😆

I don't think so.

I would watch that!

Da ga prave danas, Amerikanci bi ih kupovali kao blesavi

maybe ;) but not just submachine guns and not just the homeland war :P

As an American who always admired the Australian people, I hope you guys can get your gun rights back someday. It's shameful what your government has done to you. No one on this earth should be disarmed by their government when they've done nothing wrong.

@@randomappalachian4635 I blame the commies. If it wasn't for them bitching the USA wanted to add disarming the population as a definition of genocide. The USSR refused coz, well already disarmed and oppressing our people.

​@@randomappalachian4635They never had gun rights, it was just gun privileges. That's why they were able to take them with a stroke of the pen and a proclamation. The Democrats would do the same to us if we didn't have the constitutional right. They would take that and definitely freedom of speech if it weren't for the Bill of Rights. The Democrats hate the 1st and 2nd amendments with a passion.

I wonder how many people in Australia sealed up and buried their guns in the back yard after they banned them? Hopefully thousands.

stockpile ammo ready for the day.

With respect, but even a full Yugoslav victory wouldn't have endangered the US one bit.

@@djdjukic you mean a full Serb victory. Yugoslavia was as dead as yesterday by that point. Also, the US did not really want to intervene. It was the rest of NATO that made that decision, mainly because the IJA was targeting civilians,particularly women.

@@davidtuttle7556 I'm not going to argue names or war crimes, I'm just saying it all had nothing to do with protecting the US. NATO wasn't in any danger either.

@@djdjukic I won’t either. That war was dirty as hell on all sides. But for whatever reason the European members of NATO decided it was our fight, though I disagree with that decision and agree with you. But sometimes when your friends and family get into a spot, you have do bite your tongue and support them, wrongheaded and foolish though they may be. That said, whomever made the decision to shoot UN Peacekeepers who were simply distributing food and medicines, that person was a total fkboy.

@@davidtuttle7556 That's fair enough. Have a nice day.

Of course in Croatia in 1991 it was in effect legal to make make homemade guns - the authorities even encouraged it. Makes a lot of difference.

​@@perolavhavik2585.... and now these guns are where ?? taken by the police for museum and scrap metal perhaps ... ??

I guess that's the case for many of those guns. Those Homeland War weapons are very interesting. I also want to remind everyone that there are countries where guns are more or less banned. Among them are some of the most free countries in the world, crime is low and the bans work.

@@perolavhavik2585 But why would you sacrifice yourself for politicians who would disarm and thereby disempower you once their purpose was achieved. No politician is worth that. How truly free are the people when forcibly disarmed ? I think the Americans have this correctly calculated.

@@causewaykayak If you think your guns make you free from the government, try not paying taxes and see how that works out for you. Guns are a coping mechanism, not a "freedom tool". A gun fight between you and your buddies against the government forces only has one outcome, proven by anyone who ever tried it ever. Guns in the general population just result in more civilian deaths. When we had a fuck ton of them circling around in Croatia, every small gang got into a shootout sooner or later. Since most of them were gone, gun related crimes became a statistical anomaly. We are currently one of the safest places on Earth. I also don't have to worry about my health insurance or my pension fund, my college was 100% free and i can travel, work or even live anywhere in Europe i want without even a border check. You Americans have talked yourself into thinking only you have freedom, while you don't really even understand the meaning of the word any more. I leave my apartment doors unlocked and the car running when i go to the store in the 7th largest town in the country. My 12 year old niece walks around alone after dark without anyone even blinking about it. You sleep clinging to your gun. Who's the free one? And i'm saying that from experience, as someone who's lived on the front lines of that war as a kid (a real one, not just a culture war you are "fighting" but an actual battle for survival, against a genocidal foe who wanted our nation dead and/or wiped out from the map) and actually have a gun permit. Sure, you can arm a lot of people with small arms in the case of a war, but then you soon find out that you're still royally fucked without heavy machine guns, AA and AT missiles or modern armor. Naked infantry in modern warfare is mostly minced meat that doesn't know it yet. And without the level of organization, funding and equipment of a government, you stand no chance against one at all. Don't be fooled by insurgents in your Middle East adventures - you love life too much for that level of desperation, you won't be strapping bombs on your bodies or sending your underage children on the front lines of a conflict with government troops. That also means that you can't win unless the wast majority of you thinks the same way which is simply not the case since you are deeply divided. You are a slave to the machine who's been given access to shooting toys to make you calm while they slowly shift your very notion of freedom in a way that can't be solved with bullets. You have been played and you can't even se it.

Master craftsman

Majstor generally means a blue collar worker in Croatian,people call pretty much any machinist, mechanic, electrician, construction worker, plumber, etc. a majstor.

@@ZP1993 Really *any* or just skilled workers, like it would be in German (where this word obviously comes from).

@@peterstadlmaier3107 Even though it should mean a skilled worker,people tend to call any worker majstor,I guess out of respect.

@@ZP1993 not only respect, you can hear that when you are on the way of someone, or someone just wants your attention.

Having couple magazines face in the opposite direction is probably the most common way it’s done. It’s not down in commotion shooting because there’s no real need to.

@@baneofbanes Dude it saves several seconds on reloading. Plus much easier to carry. But you don't want your feeding lips facing the sand and dirt.. I think other than the common V shape like in ARs, AKs, Galils etc, the weirdest is in Tavor - STANAG mags face in opposite directions, because it's a bullpup. The original Uzi tsolevet is in an L shape ("tslav" means a cross), so you can't put it into a pouch of any kind.

what is missing in your story is that during the cold war in Yugoslavia, all children in school had a subject: national self-defense, where we learned to shoot and prepare for self-defense in case of war, but the state did not provide for these needs modern weapons for that time, type AK47, were used by men in the regular army, while for general national self-defense we had old weapons from the Second World War that the army no longer needed. so everyone at that time knew very well who works pps mauser etc. and if you didn't know you could literally take one from school and copy it.

Quite right

Tribes->kingdoms->empires->governments - the base rule is always the same: if you want to stay on its territory you accept the rules or you get out

​@@user-ph3vd5rl8l or you change the rules.