The Classical Firearms/Weapons Thread

[The Imperialist]

Even though I may sound like a gun nut, I am interested in weapons, so I thought I may as well as make a new thread.
Because it is classical, this thread will NOT talk about 'oh, how good this MP5 is' or all that rubbish. We talk about aesthetics, and its real record etc.


Well, I wanted to know what people thought of the Luger carbine, and the converted Mauser C96 carbine. They are both beautiful weapons.


Luger Carbine:
http://www.phoenixinvestmentarms.com/966Carbine02W.htm (doesn't have much information on ballistics etc...)

Mauser carbine:
http://www.1896mauser.com/carbines.htm

[i_like_1981]

Gun nut. It reminds me of a scene from the Terminator where Arnold Schwarzenegger was asking for all sorts of weapons from a gun shop. He must have took half the stock in the entire shop. When he'd got all the weapons he wanted, he loaded up the shotgun, and the guy behind the counter said "You can't do that!", and he said, "Wrong," and then shot him. Now that's a scene which is hard to forget!

That film did glamorise weapon usage to an extreme scale, though. And that scene illustrated to me how much easier weapons were to acquire over in America back in the 1980's. That shop appeared to be in easy view of the public on a high street.

I don't know what the policy on gun sales is over in America. In a few films like The Terminator and even Borat I've seen these huge shops stocking all sorts of weapons like handguns, rifles and ammunition. Over in Britain there's absolutely none of that stuff. You can buy air rifles but we do not have enormous gun stores on high streets with weapons all over the walls. Well, at least nowhere I've seen or been to, anyway.

Luger and Mauser. I do recognise those two names of guns. I'm certain they were both used in WWII, mainly by the Germans, as a matter of fact. I've not clicked on the links.

Best regards,
i_like_1981

[The Imperialist]

Well, it isn't the weapons that are wrong. It is the people using it, that is the problem (classical phrase, I think, but)

I think both weapons are beautiful, but I wanted other people's opinion...