r/interestingasfuck • u/AdministrativeMud907 • 5d ago

A girl saves her boyfriend from a robbery by pointing a machine gun at two armed robbers.(Texas) r/all

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u/clokerruebe 5d ago

not just you. i mean a rifle is scary sure. but imagine you turn the corner and face an MG42

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u/loodog 5d ago

Gutentag

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u/reddog323 5d ago

That brings back some memories of Castle Wolfenstein.

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u/mattybrad 4d ago

Die, Allied Schweinhund!

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u/Goodnight_lemro 5d ago

Auf wiedersehen.

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u/Iamthesmartest 5d ago

Die Bart, Die!

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u/kevin9er 4d ago

Nobody who speaks German could be evil!

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u/DisgruntlesAnonymous 4d ago

Ach, mein leben!

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u/caustic_smegma 5d ago

Chick comes out with a WW1 Lewis gun, multiple pan magazines hanging from her hip...

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u/StudlyMcStudderson 5d ago

Thats me Bren!

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u/timbit87 5d ago

Small magazine size is the only downfall of the bren, I'd go for the chauchat. Slow rate of fire means easy control while running.

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u/BonnieMcMurray 4d ago

Chick and 3 of her girlfriends come out with a Vickers HMG, mount, spare barrels, water tank and thousands of rounds of .303.

"Tally ho, ladies!"

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u/Nippon-Gakki 4d ago

“I love the smell of cordite in the morning”

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u/SuperSimpleSam 5d ago

nah, the drum magazine they had for planes.

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u/Le_Wizard_ 4d ago

Fuck that get me a Chauchat mg

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u/ForbiddenText 5d ago

Is a pan the same as a drum?

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u/freakinunoriginal 4d ago

https://preview.redd.it/fxqjt9z4mu8d1.jpeg?width=1332&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=949a859fa2a980fa8281f523858673680caf8fad

Drums usually have the rounds in a spiral channel, all oriented in the same direction, with a spring pushing them through to an exit on the edge of the drum; it's basically a stick magazine that's wrapped around itself. The Thompson, PPD-40, and PPSh-41 are often depicted with drums (although they also had stick magazines).

Pans have the rounds arranged on the circumference of the magazine, and either the whole pan or a tray within the pan rotates, with the rounds exiting through the floor of the pan. The Lewis and DP-27 are the most notable firearms with pan magazines. I think at least one of those uses the cycling of the gun to advance the tray.

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u/ForbiddenText 4d ago

Ahh, thanks. I think I remember seeing a cutaway of the pan style now. Not as efficient I imagine.

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u/ActuallyYeah 4d ago

By jove!

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u/lucklesspedestrian 5d ago

You see a sketchy person walking through the hood with a golf bag, watch out. Next thing you know they're mounting a Ma Deuce to a tripod

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u/Nightowl11111 5d ago

You need to work out more if you can't hipfire a Ma Deuce. :P

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u/4materasu92 5d ago

Or you get your ass chewed apart by an M1919.

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u/MoirasPurpleOrb 5d ago

Dude those things are fucking HEAVY. Ain’t no one carrying that themselves

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u/blackcat-bumpside 5d ago

My grandpa carried one in the Pacific. Actually it may have been an M1917, idk.

Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo. He and I think two other dudes.

One of the other dudes was his best friend. He was manning the gun at the time and had his head blown off in front of my grandpa, who then had to slide his friend’s body away and take over. Apparently this was quite common on those crews- machine guns are always going to be a big target.

He waited like 60 years to tell that story to anyone. 😬

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u/JCuc 5d ago

Heavy enough that the poor guy who has to lug it around doesn't even get to shoot it.

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u/Chemical-Speech-9395 5d ago

That makes it scarier

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u/MiracleRats_ 5d ago

your ass and anyone else's in the apartment behind you.

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u/worldspawn00 5d ago

Nothing says fuck you and your whole platoon quite like a water cooled M1917 browning.

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u/JonatasA 5d ago

I'd be more impressed by the Chauchat. You can use it on the go and see if they know Forgotten Weapons.

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u/BonnieMcMurray 4d ago

That downside of that, of course, is that you probably won't hit anything, and if you do, you'll hit it very slowly.

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u/ladan2189 3d ago

I wanted her to be laying down fire from a MG08 with a pickelhaube on

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u/fren-ulum 5d ago

Really though, I don't think most people would know the difference. Now, when you start letting rounds fucking sing from a proper MG, you best believe I'm shitting my pants.

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u/regular_0wl 5d ago

Bud, doesnt matter if the person knows nothing about guns, they are used to small rifles in police hands, now imagine leaving home with this

https://preview.redd.it/hpbkedwc7t8d1.jpeg?width=1389&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c47d63117c54875e17906404feb16aa367b4f139

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u/Fappy_as_a_Clam 5d ago

the news would still say its an "AR15 style assault weapon"

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u/BonnieMcMurray 4d ago

Correction: "A high-powered AR15-style assault weapon with a high-capacity magazine."

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u/Syr_Delta 4d ago

Na thats clearly a 1911, see the wood. So its only a pistol

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u/regular_0wl 5d ago

🤣🤣

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u/NotAWerewolfReally 5d ago

Eh, I'm a lot more worried about a shotgun or SBR in urban combat than I'm going to be about something designed for suppressing fire. I mean, sure, scary because "gun", but not more so than a hand gun, honestly.

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u/BonnieMcMurray 4d ago

I mean, sure, scary because "gun", but not more so than a hand gun, honestly.

Given that long guns are considerably easier to shoot accurately vs. handguns, I don't find that argument to be very persuasive. All the more so when what's coming out of the business end of long guns nearly always has quite a bit more energy behind it.

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u/NotAWerewolfReally 4d ago edited 4d ago

You've clearly not engaged in urban combat operations before.

There are two issues here you've brought up, accuracy and lethality.

Trying to swing around a long gun in confined quarters makes it a lot harder, not easier, to accurately hit your target. This is further exacerbated when you're talking about a machine gun as pictured in the post I'm replying to - which is meant to be fired prone.

But more importantly, the weapons you're talking about are specifically designed -not to kill-. They're designed to overpenetrate and leave you wounded but not dead, because then you take multiple combatants out of the fight, as they now need to medivac the wounded.

If I have to take a hit, I'd much rather take a round of 7.62×51mm (what the pictured MG42 fires) over a round of buckshot, especially at urban combat ranges.

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u/NoTePierdas 5d ago

A machine gun generally is much larger and is purpose-built for firing large amount of intermediate-to-large caliber rounds at a high rate of fire.

Generally a necessity is a large supply of ammunition and the ability to change barrels. A bipod of some sort is also common.

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u/SpaceTimeinFlux 5d ago

Homegirl posted up in the living room with barbed wire and sandbags like "I wish a mutha fucka would"

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u/Silent-Shallot-9461 5d ago

The current version in use is the MG3, where the biggest difference is, that it uses Nato standard ammunition. The buzzsaw is still buzzing.

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u/Phustercluck 5d ago edited 5d ago

I immediately pictured her rocking an m61 vulcan gattling canon

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u/ZombieBait604 5d ago

If you can stand and fire one of those and stay on your feet, everyone should be afraid.

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u/Not_Another_Usernam 5d ago

Nah, she has an GAU-8 Avenger Gatling Cannon

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u/BonnieMcMurray 4d ago

"Walking fire" for the 21st century - as in, when you fire it you end up walking backwards very quickly.

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u/knbang 5d ago

While yelling "It's sewing time".

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u/Spare_Change_Agent 5d ago

Yeah that made me laugh. Nice work.

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u/TheRealKingBorris 5d ago

RUFEN SIE DEN KRANKENWAGEN, ABER NICHT FÜR MICH!

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u/TheReverseShock 5d ago

Ask your Greatgrandpa

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u/PolyJuicedRedHead 5d ago

More like a 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger rotary cannon.

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u/foghornleghorndrawl 5d ago

My favorite WWII joke.

"A couple of Nazi's walk into a BAR."

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u/Pleasant_Yak5991 5d ago

Holding a 50cal browning at the hip

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u/TheRealStitchie 4d ago

Jin Roh moment

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u/Bladesnake_______ 4d ago

3 Americans walk into an MG42

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u/creegro 4d ago

Some petite lady coming out with a full on M60, already loaded with the ammo dragging behind.

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u/BeeMovieHD 4d ago

The girlfriend comes around the corner and it's just like a fuckin Dum Dum Dugan carrying some hood mount belt fed 50 cal

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u/Syr_Delta 4d ago

To be honest, i would shit my pants if i only hear that thing

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u/tdatas 4d ago
  • Be robbing a house
  • Lights go out
  • Ride of the valykries starts playing
  • "I have been vaiting for zis moment for many years mein freunchen" *metallic spring noises"

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u/Armedleftytx 5d ago

That's when you shoot the Nazi