Bolt handle is also a safety. Receiver have smaller hole in front of the handle slot. If you twist it 90° you can't cock the gun and it also lets you know gun is safe since you can't see through sights. That is very clever safety to prevent unwanted discharge if gun falls on the buttstock.

The title fits, this does looks like the result of a loving marriage between a Mac-10 and a Skorpion.

Ian, you are legend. There is not a single video i don’t learn something - i even feel like i’m learning when i see your “action” videos. Thank you.

You know it's kinda funny how in MGSV: The Phantom Pain they made up a fictional smg called the Sz-336 that's meant to be a mix between a Mac and a vz. 61, and it looks almost exactly like this. Considering this is on forgotten weapons I'm assuming it wasn't intentional lol

Well done calling the war "Homeland war". Most foreigners call it the "Yugoslav civil war", but we call it "Domovinski rat" , which litteraly translates to "Homeland war".

Sinjska alka is a very famous Croatian knights game, and it is still ongoing. The manifestation is held every year in august, and it has been ongoing for over 300 years now, I think it was even held every single year without exception since it started in early 18th century. It comemorates the 1715 victory of 700 Croatian defenders from Sinj who managed to succesfully defend the city against an army of 60 000 Turks.

You are in Karlovac? Enjoy your stay in Croatia, do not hesitate to see the beautiful sights it has to offer before you leave.

Incidently, there's a home insurance company in Denmark named "ALKA" , I guess thats what home insurance in Croetia looks like:)

Those have very very nice build quality, especially when you consider the circumstances!!

It's nice to hear about firearm history from my homeland. Thanks for the great video

Springfield xd is called HS in croatia( probably a branding thing) . HS used to be IM metal. Alka is a compettition event in town called Sinj. And only men born in Sinj can participate and it consists of riding a horse with a lance and trying to "catch" a suspended metal wire target onto the lance while riding a horse. The men born in Sinj part can have some STRANGE consequences like wifes traveling to give birth in Sinj rather then the nearest hospital ( even if it is a 3 hours drive) or not leaving Sinj when carrying a son

This is the cutest mag-in-grip SMG I've ever seen.

Bit more info for the name, Alka comes from a 308 year old knight competition originating from town of Sinj (thus, Sinjska Alka), in which competitors must hit a hollow circle with their spear while riding on a horseback, where a more precise hit scores more points. The town of Sinj played a major role in our fight to repel the invaders, and thus it is really not suprising somebody named a gun after it ;) P.S : some footage of Alka if you are interested kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rppyg5hklt2bho0.html

Yugo army: Noooooo you cant have any guns! Croatia: hahahahaha submachinegun go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

Would make a good emergency backup weapon in a tank. Simple, effective, and compact.

They still have the Alka tournament in the town of Sinj every year in August.

Always happy to see Ian review some of our Croatian guns !

Welcome to Croatia, Ian!

If I ever bump into you here in Croatia I'm buying you beer mr. Ian! Good video!

The profile of the ALKA Mod 93 somewhat reminds me of the Polish PM 63.

i was wrong, GUN JESUS HAS COME TO CROATIA, this is the closest i will come to meeting you

Never underestimate the power of men in sheds

You can definitely see the influence of the scorpion, the Mac, the mp-40 and the UZI. Nice job making the Frakengun gun work. That cyclical rate calls into question it's usefulness though. The amount of ammunition that a soldier would need is mind boggling.

Yes, Croatia. "Internal pride intensifying"

I am croatian and my dad and grandpa used standard 12 cal hunting rifles in early war then my father escaped from JNA and stole them some m70ab2 s i think 5 pieces and armed people in my place

First time hearing about these. Greetings from Croatia.

Arms embargos always seem to favor the strong side of the conflict.

I'm so glad that you are in my country Ian. Welcome to Croatia 🇭🇷 . Fun fact - this gun is named by Sinjska Alka .The Sinjska Alka is a chivalric tournament that takes place annually, as it has since the 1715. in my hometown Sinj. It commemorates a Croatian-Venetian victory in the Ottoman-Venetian war on August 14, 1715 in which the local Christian population of around 700 Croats in cooperation with a smaller number of Venetians managed to defend Sinj against 60,000 Ottoman soldiers. In 2010, the Alka was inscribed in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists. If you ever again come to Croatia, visit Sinj and Alka museum where is a lot of forgotten weapons from that period.

You are in Croatia? Nice.

Long live independent Croatia!

oh no, Ian is in Croatian armory. I dont want him to see what was initial VHS during 90s (its cursed).

I could see this being a pleasure to shoot. Classic, proven design with some clever adaptations and what looks like decent build-quality. Provided they did an OK job with the proprietary magazine, I bet this is a fun little gun.

I love odd weapons that come together from several parts that were deemed necessary at the time. It is the mother of invention.

I'm very impressed with the homework you do about history of gun/region. Nothing but huge respect for you Ian!

Ingenuity under fire. When the Cheniks were attacking the city of Split, ironically, with the JNA vessel named 'Split', arms were few, so weapons like a large caliber WWI machine gun were taken from the maritime museum then used to defend the city.

That looks like a (somewhat) copy of a Polish PM-84 Glauberyt that went into production in 1984

Your summation of the situation just before the war started was on point…well done my man

If you are in Croatia and going South please lets have a beer and have lunch/dinner!

Any chance we'll get a look at some more of the strange croatian SMGs like the Crogar 91 and Vila Velebita?

I love your videos, I love how you explained everything how it really happened (Croatian Homeland war, the embargo, etc.). Great work! Greetings from Croatia!

This is surprising well-made given the circumstances it was made under.

The Croatian conflick was thirty years ago. Good grief time flies.

Just sat down for breakfast break at work, opens KZfaq and sees a new FW video, thanks for making my morning Gun Jesus 🙏

As a Croat I can say only that you have stated everything right in this video,historical facts are all true which is rarely the case when someone outside Balkan presents it. You have done you homework Sir,my respect. 👏

Yogu army did the same in Slovenia as well, confiscated arms so the people could not fight back. Fortunately for Slovenia that war was over quick.

Hi Ian! You should do a review of the Ero machine gun, (a copy of the UZI) an interesting machine gun that is still used by the police in Croatia.

Nice looking little SMG, and with more real-estate to hang on to, undoubtedly easier to control than an Ingram. Not fond of wire stocks, but I suppose it's perfectly adequate for a "MACovic" buzzgun like this. But if ever a gun cried out for a permanent (or at least threaded, so no rail failure of a tiny component can risk your hand suddenly finding itself downrange) broomstick VFG on the forearm...

Love these videos. Please, never stop.

Nice of you to visit us in Croatia😀👍🏻. Hope you enjoy staying here. Video is educational as always 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.

My father was a Serb, military police in JNA. He served in Split and Zadar in 1989. He told me about all of the guns he shot from and he found the Ingram Mac 11 to be the most fun gun to shoot.

I haven't seen one of those for a long time. Late 90's- early -00's. Never got to shoot one. Visiting relatives in the Knin area. Yes, I'm Croat by direct male lineage.

Man.. you just earned my respect cuz i see lots of "history" chanels this days who do not know jack shit about our fight for independance but you nailed it! Kudos to you for being well informed when talking about some topick. Cheers from Croatia

That front sight looks like it was straight off of a replacement M11/9 upper.

Ian, just received my copy of Pistols Of The Warriors Sig. Ed. In the mail today and it looks absolutely brilliant!!! Huge congratulations to you and everyone at Headstamp for the release!

Even traditional square tubing has a weld seam, it's just done mechanically. If you're trying to make a telescoping device it's often in the way (on the inside) and you have to remove it. This looks like a hand welded "tube" rather than commercial square tubing, though. Even most round tubing is a sheet around a mandrel then welded. This makes Electronically Resistance Welded (ERW) tubing. To get something without an obvious seam it's then Drawn Over Mandrel at which point the seam isn't in the way, and the cold working increases strength. Maybe this is done with square tube as well, I don't know, but that's what you would usually use to build a roll cage.

The Yugoslavia had a doctrine of people's defense and partisan warfare in case of an invasion. Alongside the YPA as a federal army, there was TO or Territorial Defense, which was organized on Republic level and TO equipment was considered not a federal but republic property. YPA disarmed the TO of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The operation failed in Slovenia, probably because the Slovenia was ethnically homogenous and it's TO was unified organization across entire republic.

While Croatia isn't the major power Elbonia is I do believe that even in Croatia's most dire moments of existence they were more effectively armed than Elbonia ever was.

Alka is new age game not medevial it started in 1715 after win against turks. It is still played today on 14 august every year. It is marksman game. Guy runs with horse down the ally and tries to hit 13 cm hole that is 4 m in height.

Very intresting and simple SMG. Thanks for this video, Ian! You're always the n°1!😎

Nice! Very attractive and utilitarian. Thank you.

I’ve never heard of this thing, but now I want one!

Looking forward to this interesting piece's range visit!

I don't know why the XD line gets so much hate. I owned and carried an XD compact for years cause it was what I could afford and for the money it really was a pretty nice gun.

Very cool, I like the design, & that they innovated a few different firearms into one that works.

I wish I knew you were comeing to Croatia. It would be nice to have meet you in person.

I hope you visited the coast while you were in Croatia (I assume it was this summer).

Thanks for teaching me about a part of my people's history, I know very little about our gun manufacturing in those times, so it's good to learn

Hope you enjoyed your time in Karlovac

Well thought out little emergency sub gun!

thank you for showing our croatian smg

Such a beautiful piece not going to lie. It sure beats the knuckleduster gun, the hatgun, the suitcasegun, pengun, the slamfire shotgun and zip22 gun.

It looks very professionally done.

there is just something about machine pistols that i love, and this one is very cool

That's a very neat little SMG

I think we can throw the Uzi into the influences as well - the slots in the barrel look like taken exactly from a mini Uzi. And the overall look is also quite close to the mini Uzi, especially thanks to the handguard. It looks to me like they took the MAC and upgraded it to be more usable by elements from vz.61 and (mini) Uzi.

This gun looks straight out of Metal Gear Solid 5

super, hvala

Important detail. Jugoslav Army did not took veapons of Croatian Armed Forces as they did not exist at the time. It have removed the veaponry that belonged to Croatian Teritorrial Defence which was officially second echelon of Jugoslav People's Army any way. These veapons and equipment were paid by Croatian tax payers. It was plain robbery. If new government chosen during first free election managed to keep those, war would propably never happened.

I guess this is why we don't have video tapes being made anymore. The company went into gun manufacturing.

Would love to see you talk about the Swedish AK5. From the first trials to the latest AK5C. There is even a bullpup version of it stored in a bunker somewere.

Very interesting fire arm

Welcome to Croatia! :)

Ian, please speak with HS Produkt about importing VHS-2 optics, pistol grips, and barrels. Thank you

Shooting it tomorrow? Usually you say, but sometimes it's just a surprise.

Off topic but we need some coverage on Remington's early .22 rifles. The model 34 and 341 have a rather interesting mechanism that would get peoples attention.

wow I really love this design, simple an efficient

Looks like child between MAC-10 and Scorpion got really intimate but PM-63 was the milkman

oh what i would do to get my hands on this, thanks for showing.

Thank you , Ian . 🐺

Simplicity in design.

If you are by anypoint up for a beer, I'll be glad to buy you one while you are in Croatia (anytime) :). Enjoy your stay!

Did you visit Dubrovnik when you visited Croatia? We loved it!

Thanks

This proves that simplicity is king.

Holy crap Ian, did you forget to look inside the lower? Really would've loved to see the FCG.

I love this little guy.

I have half a dozen Springfield Armory XD family pistols. I like them much more than the Glocks I have. High quality and good handling. If I could say 'Thank You" in Croatian I would. Thanks Ian for the video background to the modern firearms.

Only Croatian made SMG which I have ever handled and shooted, was Zagi M-91. It was during my first tour at Bih as a peacekeeper from Finnish contingent. I was acting Liaison Officer with Weapon Inspection and CIMIC tasks. Managing director from one particular local industrial plant have called us to "confiscate" gatekeeper's PDW. And it was Zagi M-91. We willingly "confiscated" that. Back in our Camp, I examined that SMG lil' closer and to my eyes it had lot of common with STENs. So, after couple of days, me and driver/BG had opportunity to go and shoot with that. Well, it was pretty easy to handle, even it was lil' bit cumbersome by design. The rate of fire was quite slow, like STEN. After shooting session We were wondering What to with Zagi. We usually destroyed confiscated weapons torching them with gas welder. Have done that couple of Zastava M72s and M59/66s. But with Zagi We decided to deactivate that and put it in display to our all ranks mess. Our Camp Commander gave us green light. We deactivated that by welding/filling the chamber and grinding of the bolt's striking face. I also wrote document for deactivation of that gun (for Finnish Authorities). And We put that gun inside wooden display box. Funny thing, that Zagi never hung on wall in our all ranks mess. Because We were ordered to move our Task Force's main base in Tuzla. Our base was in Doboj. So We decided then, that my Driver/BG can keep it, because his tour was ending soon. He never had any problems with that deactivated Zagi, when driving through Europe, from Bosnia to Finland.

Nice looking gun.

Beautiful!! 😍