Valuable WWII Gun at Police Buy-Back

vienna · 12-11-12, 01:41 PM

You never know what you might have in your closet:

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...opstories.html

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Sailor Steve · 12-11-12, 01:54 PM

Good thing the cops knew their stuff. I wonder how many other collectibles have been destroyed by people who didn't know.

Penguin · 12-11-12, 02:05 PM

Interesting find! I wonder how many weapons US WW2 vets brought home.

However a hell of an article...

I'll let the "Nazi Assault Gun" slide for media sensation, the "expert's" statements however:

Quote:

The gun is called a Sturmgewehr 44, literally meaning "storm rifle," and is the first "modern assault rifle ever made, eventually replaced by the AK 47 in 1947 by Russia, who copied the German design of the Sturmgewehr 44," Officer Lewis Crabtree, one of the two officers who discovered the gun, told ABC News.

Ahh, the old but wrong legend. Seems like Lewis knows Crab about rifles...
Just like his collegue, an alleged gun range master:

Quote:

"She did not know it was a machine gun"

well, I didn't know that either...

Gerald · 12-11-12, 02:11 PM

Adolf,

Armistead · 12-11-12, 02:18 PM

Theat rifle was on one of those pawn shows with the guys that deal only in guns not long ago.

I love this statement..

"If the gun had been in the closet loaded, any second you could hit the wrong level and discharge a fatal round," he said of the Sturmgewehr 44."

How silly, it applies with any loaded gun.....

Stealhead · 12-11-12, 04:10 PM

US troops got pretty good at shipping back weapons during WWII so good that by 1944 they started x-raying large packages after they found some MG-42s that had been well concealed but they could not get everything.

Some soldier likely field stripped that STG and shipped it back one part at a time.

The AK47 is not a copy of the STG44 either...sheesh for starters they have entirely different bolts and the operation is quite different. Now the AK47 design was obviously influenced by the STG but this is the case with every single firearm ever designed they all take ideas from other designs just like the Vz.58 not a copy of the AK47.I wonder how well those two "expert" cops even know their own duty weapons I bet they cant even field strip their Glocks.

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Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Adolf, __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	US troops got pretty good at shipping back weapons during WWII so good that by 1944 they started x-raying large packages after they found some MG-42s that had been well concealed but they could not get everything. Some soldier likely field stripped that STG and shipped it back one part at a time. The AK47 is not a copy of the STG44 either...sheesh for starters they have entirely different bolts and the operation is quite different. Now the AK47 design was obviously influenced by the STG but this is the case with every single firearm ever designed they all take ideas from other designs just like the Vz.58 not a copy of the AK47.I wonder how well those two "expert" cops even know their own duty weapons I bet they cant even field strip their Glocks. Last edited by Stealhead; 12-11-12 at 04:20 PM.

12-11-12, 02:18 PM	#5
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	Theat rifle was on one of those pawn shows with the guys that deal only in guns not long ago. I love this statement.. "If the gun had been in the closet loaded, any second you could hit the wrong level and discharge a fatal round," he said of the Sturmgewehr 44." How silly, it applies with any loaded gun.....