M3 grease gun hickok45 biography
Hickok45 having way too much fun with a Sten gun
Let's get something straight - disagreeing with someone's point of view is not "dissing" the person, nor does it constitute a 'personal attack', at least not as I understand the term.
It's simple. Registration is forever, the paper trail existing in some form somewhere. Licencing can and does expire at the whim of government. Due to licencing, there are several classes of firearms ownership - full autos and 12(6) prohibs. Some of us own firearms others will NEVER have the opportunity to own. You hear people lamenting this state of affairs on CGN regularly.
For those of us that owned some or all of these firearms, pre-dating any of this social engineering bovine garden enhancer, this is utter nonsense. It accomplished exactly ..... ? Help me here, it MUST have been done for some good reason. It sure wasn't done for the usual reasons of peace, order and good government, based on the criminal misuse of these firearms.
Did the introduction of the FAC accomplish anything other than to make 'paper criminals' out of otherwise law-abiding citizens who did not apply? The same can be said of the subsequent POL/PAL system. What has banning, restricting, prohibiting, licencing done other than to reduce the number of firearms owners? How many times have you heard of people giving up owning handguns because they tired of the associated paperwork? How many people would like to own an AR 15 but won't for the same reason? How many would like to legally own an heirloom 'prohib' but missed the cut off date?
Has this improved the quality of life for Canadians? Is our society a safer, gentler place as a result? Has it prevented events like what happened at L'Ecole Polytechnique, Dawson College, Mayerthorpe, the rcmp shootings in New Brunswick, the National War Memorial in Ottawa?
How many have read "Gun Control - Gateway To Tyranny" by the late Aa
The Controversial M3 Grease Gun
By Patrick J. Chaisson
No one ever used the words “graceful” or “elegant” to describe the M3 submachine gun. Instead, those soldiers, sailors and Marines who carried it called the M3 a “plumber’s nightmare” or “the cake decorator.” Its passing resemblance to a mechanic’s lubrication tool, however, led to the weapon’s most common and enduring nickname: “grease gun.”
Designed as an inexpensive replacement for the iconic Thompson submachine gun, this utilitarian firearm overcame early reliability problems to capably serve U.S. forces and their allies for over half a century. Most servicemen who used one in battle admitted the grease gun was an adequate, if not beloved, close-combat weapon, its cheap, ugly appearance notwithstanding.
As early as 1940, officials in the United States Army Ordnance Department began to prepare for the enormous rearmament program their nation would have to undertake if it was to win victory in the approaching world war. Mass production of individual weapons, then, became an industrial priority.
While Ordnance tended to focus its efforts on such shoulder arms as the semiautomatic M1 rifle, certain specialized troops such as paratroopers and vehicle crewmen often required something else: a compact, hard-hitting submachine gun for short-range work. The current-issue Thompson, designed during World War I, met this requirement but had its issues. Put plainly, the Tommy Gun required too much time, steel, and money to manufacture in large numbers. Even a simplified wartime version called the M1A1 cost taxpayers $45.00 per unit ($660.00 in 2021).
Sometime in late 1940, an Army committee recommended the U.S. military develop a more modern submachine gun. In response to that directive, Colonel René R. Studler, the Ordnance Department’s Chief of Small Arms Research and Development, obtained for study a number of foreign weapons to include Nazi Germany’s MP40 machine pistol, the Australian Owen carbine, and Gre .
First, pirates have been around practically since man learned to build boats. Pirates have been mentioned in ancient Babylonian and Egyptian texts dating back to 1400 BC. The Greeks and Romans battled pirates in the Mediterranean sea. In fact, the word "pirate" is from the Greek word, pieraomai which means "attempt" (i.e. "attempt to rob for personal gain"), which morphed to the Greek word pierates which means "bandit" or "brigand", from which we get the Latin word pirata, from which we get the English word "pirate". In the middle ages, the Vikings roamed the northern seas, but also sailed as far south as North Africa and Italy and sailed up rivers all the way up to the Black sea. The South China sea and the area between Malaysia and the Indonesian islands have had incidents of piracy since about 900 AD. In modern times, we have pirates off the coast of Somalia and in the strait of Malacca.
However, we will concentrate mainly on the weapons used by pirates during the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy", which happened around 1650-1730 AD. This was around the time that various European powers were competing with each other to build colonies and trade routes around the world. During this time, several notorious pirates were based off the Caribbean islands, but there were others who sailed around the coast of Africa and even as far as India. In fact, the biggest robbery ever made during the Golden Age of Piracy was by English pirate Henry Every (also called Henry Avery or Long Ben Every), who captured a couple of the Indian Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's shipsin the Arabian sea, sailing back from Mecca to India loaded with jewels. With this single act of piracy, Henry Every b