Whoever you are, Rock Island clearly isn't paying you enough.

@ GODAMMIT!!! He does this every time.

"Dont tap the glass you will frighten him"

Oh thank the heavens, I was worried his absence would lead to a significant decrease of gun previews from your stock. So when can we expect the complete disassembly of the bigger items?

Devin Stromgren It’s the official channel

@@Yeroc357 You fool! You fell for the oldest trick in the book! My dog died years ago, your agents are about to shoot my tannerite filled stuffing!

@@TheSquidPro lol

There'll figure it out as soon as shtf

or like the Uzi carbines that came with a second "barrel" for show.

This is a prime example of "it's only illegal if you get caught" Don't get caught.

No, it's the "Ineffective at Close but Barely Able to Function at Mid to Long Range" variant that costed about 6.5 million dollars to research and 7 million to develop.

r/wooooosh

kabob 007 that was supposed to be a joke?

@@iateuranium-235forbreakfas7 Yes.

@@iateuranium-235forbreakfas7 Yes, hence the quotation marks. And a pistol caliber carbine is indeed effective at close range. Especially if you're indoors and you want a lower chance of going deaf.

And then probably melted down for scrap á la the Liberator pistols...

Is that right?

They kept getting left near the mechanics and re-purposed as actual grease guns

It was about 1991 or 92 in Hohenfels, Germany and while walking around with a buddy or two, I saw a couple of tankers pass in front of us with Grease Guns slung on their shoulders. The finish was almost completely worn off, but the shocking thing for me was to see them at all.

@@Neutercane Not bad for a gun that was made in the 1940's for about $11.00 that was designed to be desposable!!! ;^)

They gotta make an m3a4 version that also dispenses grease

Harsh... but true.

But as a closed-bolt gun, it should be nicer to shoot than the original open-bolt greasegun, so there's that. And with the longer barrel, it should have slightly better ballistics.

Scrolled down to make the same comment and see I'm not the only one thinking this. The point of the grease gun was simple and cheap. To buy a closed bolt one that is likely well north of a grand is just wrong.

@@r5cpt Not really. Most modern auto pistol cartridges have gone through a full burn in about 8-12 inches of barrel. After that you actually start to lose velocity. Magnum revolver cartridges on the other hand..., those start behaving like pint sized rifle cartridges and are still accelerating as far out as 24-26 inches of barrel. It has a lot to do with the powder burn rate and what you're expected to be firing the cartridge out of.

One thing we can get here in New Zealand are lever action 44 Magnum rifles with 12 inch barrels.

@@freman007 ...from what I have read...suppressors as well

Still had them for armored vehicle crews into the 90s. I can’t say much because I only had training on the M16 and M60. My best friend went on to serve in both Mech Infantry and Armored roles . He said it was hard to anything with them.

My grandfather carried a M3 in Vietnam and carried a burlap sack on his lap with the subgun across it so that when he was driving he could spray without burning his leg. He drove his own jeep in nam after the first time ambushed and his driver panicked. He was a high ranking officer by that time. He also carried a Reising smg in WW2 which is known as a Marine gun but he was in the army. He was a target shooter in the civilian world and liked boltactions, yet carried smgs in combat

Have photo of my uncle who was an Vietnam advisor carrying an Mp40

Scan those photos before they deteriorate beyond recovery.

They're in photo albums in a dark place with no humidity. I saw them 8 years ago and they looked just like they always have. My father turned 71 this year I'll have them before too long.

That's an awesome picture

@Disobedient One *notices bulge*

@@calebhu6383 *sweats nervously in German*

It's the ATF and they've just shot your dog

they are fantastic and she worked well with what the state of washington allowed her to do! I have one, and not one bit of trouble out of it. With the exception of the long barrel, I'd say yeah, a faithful recreation.

@@bad74maverick1 sure, but that rather derails my Pinocchio joke...

@@Flamekebab Well you're welcome. Sorry, lol, Val's a friend of mine.

DOES SHE STILL MAKE THESE CAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO BUY ONE​@@bad74maverick1

Wish they were still $700 lol

@@hellraiserrec19 they stopped making them i think

@@deluxezesty I know Val personally. They did. She moved to Utah and wants to start her business up again.

@@bad74maverick1 awesome!

How much do these go for now? I got a chance to get one for $500

It's ugly and sad. It's so off that any respectable reenactment wouldn't let you reenact with it. Gotta make it comply with the government? Fine. But if it doesn't look right, it won't sell

Godsdamnit what does it want now? I've already washed my hands.

That's what makes it criminal proof.

@@robotbjorn4952 yup everyone knows bullets are non lethal past 16 inches.

*hacksaws with libertarian intent*

@@RichieRichOverdrive RIP this guy's dog.

A reliable, simple gun with only as many features as it needs are rather interesting, and the grease gun is the prime example

@@Inexpressable Jeep killers too. I met an Air force vet who despised these after one went postal, all by itself, in a jeep, ruining a perfectly good jeep.

Kelsey Devereux “All by itself.” I’m sure it took itself off safety and everything!

@@jeffreyroot6300 I was telling it as it was told to me. What I assume happened is either the bolt was locked back and it was jarred or it fell with enough force to chamber a round and ran away due to some damage to the trigger assembly. The safety cover did have a tendency to jar loose.

Kelsey Devereux I believe you, and the most likely explanation is generally human error. Given the construction of the M3A1, and he would have had a twenty plus year old semi disposable weapon by then, it’s certainly possible the dust cover safety did jar loose and produce a run away slam fire. I just hear “ the gun did it!” Too often.

As long as you live in an Eye Poking Free School Zone, you'll have nothing to fear.

Hnnngh, Colonel...

Ehh i wouldn't say that more like 2012 it's not bad but could be improved

Thing is, the original’s rate of fire is so slow, you may even be able to pull the trigger faster in semi auto. Look up Jerry Mickulak shooting M3 Grease Gun

That tnw semi-automatic ppsh41 runs about 3500 on gunbroker. Looks cool. But way too much for semi-automatic

Why would they parade with the Grease Gun, of all things? I have always regarded the thing as quite ugly.

@@MrDgwphotos - beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In this story it mentions that they were in active inventory until 1992, www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/what-happened-m3-grease-gun?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1.

in france (shit hole coutrie) they have even regulated... air rifles.

@@stg45 oh my gosh that's actually terrible. Europe is such a dump right now. I'm waiting for the nationalist elections or coups to start in the next 20 years

@@flamegator3251 They are regulated not banned. And guns are not all that hard to get in pretty much all european countries. Sure you have to do more than a surface level background check and a few days of waiting but it's still not hard. Maybe you should consider that some countries just don't have the same culture as yours, including the culture around guns.

@@lars7935 Are you kidding me right now? You can get arrested for having a butter knife in London right now. If it was easy to get woman and children wouldnt be getting s-assaulted around Europe in the thousands. This honestly has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

@@martins.4240 Okay well as for nationalism and facism, they're the only hope for Europe right now. That's why I would rather Nationalism over facism. Nationalists don't become facists until their people push for it or the government is corrupt. At that point of corruption they're only Nationalist by name and not by ethics. If you really wanna learn about Nationalistic facism search up, Europa: The Last Battle watch it with an open mind and a little bit of salt.

Sim Crawford if they made the pistol version with a telescoping bolt like an uzi or the beretta m12 it would be much shorter and compact

Sim Crawford I recall I think a recent InRange Q&A where they said that there was a time in the early 90s IIRC where the first AR-based PCCs were being developed, all in 45 using Grease Gun mags. They were super common on the surplus market, if only briefly.

The real trouble comes when trying to convert an open bolt gun with a fixed firing pin into a closed bolt gun.

It's basically a big GFY to the Washington State legislature.

*L o N g B o I i I i I i I*

It's a sign. Time to repack your wheel bearings.

The problem arose when the criminal bought a gun

And when can't buy just steal, no law abiding.

We should really make crime illegal.

Slaughter Round you do realize gun control literally does nothing right

Yes because if they can't outright ban them then making laws relegating them into ridiculous contraptions not worth owning is the next best thing.

Needs at least 75 years of cosmoline.

Pretty ironic for something known as "Grease Gun".

@@_Jebb_ Seems appropriate given the barrel length.

It just needs a new tube of grease installed.

Their website has still been up for years but they never bother to get back to anyone like Ian said in the video they treated good people like dogshit ! There are new De lisle's being built in the UK but they are banned from import to the USA. :(

@@RJM1011 No they didn't treat people like dogshit. I personally know Val and know what happened. After the M3's came out Wa. started coming down on her hard, especially with the fake silencers. Every other week they shut her down for an "inspection". Orders taken were delayed and others couldn't be taken while being "inspected". Val and her partner sold their business to another gun shop, they had NOTHING to do with Valkyrie Arms shortly after the M3's came out. Hence why the website said "Under new management". It wasn't Val and her partner. Not long ago I talked to Val and she and her now wife have left Wa. state and are planning to start a new business. I have one of her early M3A1's and she said when she gets set up she wants me to send her mine for upgrades. Mine has no set screw for the barrel, she has made a set screw and correct looking spring. She also is going to make my stock collapsible since it's legal to do so in Idaho like it wasn't in Wa. Last I heard she was working on a lever conversion charging handle for her original design. She's a great person who loves history and was a member as I was of the Confederate Airforce. The gun it this video is very late made and may not have been built under her management or ownership. Mine is a 1000 times more realistic and has more original parts than this one. Those grip panels are horrendous. " Simon- we are currently setting up a new location- we have moved out of Communist WaSnake. I hope to have a new FFL sometime this year. Converting to a collapsible stock is easy, just lots of labor. I think I've done most of the old fixed stocks over the years. Thank you, Val "

@@bad74maverick1 glad to hear.

@@bad74maverick1 What? “Now wife”? LOL

@@digbick1241 I'm not sure if they married or not. She was in a bad relationship right before I met her. Since I met her and we talked she would talk about her new relationship she always referred to her as her partner. They could have since married I suppose I haven't spoken to her in a while actually.

By the time they would have been sold to the civilian market the 1986 act concerning new MGs had come into effect. Therefore not sellable. Ian stated that most were destroyed. Since the time they were made and when they were retired. The US military had also changed from .45 to 9mm. Keeping this in the supply chain adds to logistics problems. There had been better SMGs manufactured. A new customer would want something more modern that came with a standardized round, and easy to get replacement parts. Limited number of parts if the manufacturer had quit making them.

@@shawnr771 I know that they couldn't have been sold to civilians because of the Hughes Amendment, but they could have gone to a military museum. The ammo issue you think is an issue, isn't, or wasn't then. We still had WW2 issue 1911's well past the issue date of the M9. The Army is a huge organization, and re issuing anything within that takes quite a bit of time. Tank units still had the grease gun at that time too.

Clinton peace dividend

@@towtruckmafia Yes but by Desert Storm with the exception of Special Ops most M1911s had been removed from service. The government was no longer manufacturing .45 ammo at Lake City. Due to the Graham Ruddnan base closure and realignment two of the three military ammunition production facilities were closed or were in the process of closing. Any time you can simplify logistics you should do so.

@@shawnr771 I was stationed on both the USS Abe Lincoln and USS Mobile Bay from 1990-1994 respectively. While TAD to MAA on the Lincoln, I used the Mossberg 12 guage shotgun and the M1911 . While onboard the MOB, the Security force was issued either a select fire M-14 or an M1911. The M-14 was also used to shoot a shot line to another ship. Why they were the rare select fire version is beyond me. Didn't realize how rare they were until I left the service-John in Texas

The website looks like it came over on the ark, but the copyright is 2015 so i dont know??

Thompson (as he said), Reising, Sten, MP40 are all pretty common (as in, there are a few thousand of each on the NFA registry). Some of the Stens and MP40s are reproductions made before 1986, and some are originals. There are also quite a few Stirlings which were made from registered Sten gun tubes.

It looks like Parkerising (Iron phosphate coating) sealed with Cosmoline preservative, or an analogue thereof. It was the standard US arsenal finish for small arms, and goes a distinctive green colour with age.

webtoedman thank you ❤️

This deserves more upvotes!

But the semi-autos are more than a shade easier to connect with, over longer distances, I'll wager.