Mp-40 Submachine Gun

stuka101 · 14-10-2004, 11:15 PM

What are your thoughts on the Machine pistole 40 (MP-40)?

I think that it was one of the best SMGS the Germans had in the second world war!

Thanks

Currahee

angie999 · 16-10-2004, 06:59 PM

The MP40 is a slightly modified MP38.

Pretty good, but probably over engineered, which made them difficult to manufacture and I believe that they would not take too much abuse in the field, being very prone to jams caused by dirt due to tight manufacturing tolerances.

stuka101 · 16-10-2004, 11:37 PM

Wern't the MP-40s manufactured at a large rate during the war!

Thanks

Curahee

angie999 · 17-10-2004, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by stuka101@Oct 16 2004, 10:37 PM
Wern't the MP-40s manufactured at a large rate during the war!

Thanks

Curahee

Quoted post

Yes they were, but like a lot of German military equipment, they were still not that easy to produce, being fairly high precision. This meant that they were expensive and required highly skilled labour.

stuka101 · 17-10-2004, 09:46 PM

Thanks that is helpful information!

Thanks

Currahee

Kiwiwriter · 26-10-2004, 03:26 PM

We recently had an event to dispose of guns seized in police arrests, and among them was a 60-year-old German MP 40, without stock. It had been used in a crime inthe last seven years. They still hang on.

morse1001 · 26-10-2004, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Kiwiwriter@Oct 26 2004, 02:26 PM
We recently had an event to dispose of guns seized in police arrests, and among them was a 60-year-old German MP 40, without stock. It had been used in a crime inthe last seven years. They still hang on.

Quoted post

In a similar one in Scotland, amongst the haul was a WW1 lewis gun with filled mags! There were quite a few AK47, a boyes anti-tank rifle and other WW articles!

armourersergeant · 27-10-2004, 07:11 AM

If i was going to choose i would probably go for the Soviet PPsh-42 smg in place of the MP-40.

regards
Arm.

stuka101 · 27-10-2004, 02:25 PM

Do you have a picture of the PPSH42?

Thanks

armourersergeant · 28-10-2004, 09:00 PM

it could take a drum Thompson like magazine and also a slightly bent thin mp40 magazine. It could reputedly keep firing under all circumastances, water, cold, dirt etc.

16-10-2004, 06:59 PM	#2 (permalink)
angie999 Very Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: near Bristol, UK Posts: 1,559	The MP40 is a slightly modified MP38. Pretty good, but probably over engineered, which made them difficult to manufacture and I believe that they would not take too much abuse in the field, being very prone to jams caused by dirt due to tight manufacturing tolerances. __________________ Angie "History is lived forward but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was like to know the beginning only." C V Wedgewood

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Kiwiwriter Very Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ Posts: 2,443	We recently had an event to dispose of guns seized in police arrests, and among them was a 60-year-old German MP 40, without stock. It had been used in a crime inthe last seven years. They still hang on. __________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com

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14-10-2004, 11:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
stuka101 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 20	What are your thoughts on the Machine pistole 40 (MP-40)? I think that it was one of the best SMGS the Germans had in the second world war! Thanks Currahee

16-10-2004, 11:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
stuka101 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 20	Wern't the MP-40s manufactured at a large rate during the war! Thanks Curahee

17-10-2004, 09:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
stuka101 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 20	Thanks that is helpful information! Thanks Currahee

27-10-2004, 07:11 AM	#8 (permalink)
armourersergeant Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 42	If i was going to choose i would probably go for the Soviet PPsh-42 smg in place of the MP-40. regards Arm.

27-10-2004, 02:25 PM	#9 (permalink)
stuka101 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 20	Do you have a picture of the PPSH42? Thanks

28-10-2004, 09:00 PM	#10 (permalink)
armourersergeant Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 42	it could take a drum Thompson like magazine and also a slightly bent thin mp40 magazine. It could reputedly keep firing under all circumastances, water, cold, dirt etc.

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