Posted on 05/02/2016 6:10:57 AM PDT by C19fan
For roughly a 20-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-'90s the MAC-10 submachine gun was everywhere. At least that’s what you might think if your only exposure to the weapon is action films and T.V. shows from the era. The compact MAC-10 first registered in America’s collective imagination when John Wayne wielded one with lethal prowess in the 1974 police thriller McQ.
(Excerpt) Read more at warisboring.com ...
“McQ” may have been the first film to feature the MAC-10. But the weapon received much more hype. Including an article in “Vanity Fair” magazine for ‘Three Days Of The Condor” with Redford and Faye Dunaway.
The MAC-10 was also a favorite of the British SAS. Until the H&K MP-5 hit the market.
I saw one of these fired at an indoor gun range in Georgia. I was very impressed at the rate of fire...it was blistering. At close quarters those things could put lead in a lot of different people with a single strafe.
Only 6,000 rounds? I heard of DEVGru going through 10,000 rounds in a single team session.
Interested in your take on this thread.
Can't. It is Title II.
Good article, but surprised the author stopped where he did. He should have mentioned the tremendous upgrades available in recent years through Lage Mfg and others.
The upgrades include completely redesigned upper receiver to include 8 3/8 inch threaded barrel, side cocking, rails for accessories, molded center grip, forward grips, hardened sear, extended safety, improved extractor, and a selection of folding and fixed stocks. Plus a variety of buffer weights to reduce rate of fire.
Properly upgraded, the MAC-10 and MAC-9 are formidable full-auto weapons.
Doesn’t the MAC-10 fire from an open bolt? Even if the machine-gun registry was opened up again (closed by Reagan in 1986), the ATF does not allow new machineguns (ATF spelling) to be registered that fire from an open bolt. So I am told.
I love posts like this. Thanks!
That’s my girl!!
Now if I can just keep Laz away from her.
I thought all MAC-10’s were “Uzis.” You know, because all fully-automatic weapons are Uzis, according to the newspapers. Just like all other weapons are Glocks.
Best subgun ever made.
For pounding in tent stakes.
I got them from dealers and paid ridiculous prices - but I don’t remember specifically how much. As you can imagine, money was no object for the SEALs!
They used to have ridiculous stuff in their armory: AKs with no bolts, a Czech ZB, several totally trashed Model 39 Smiths, and one Type 14 Nambu 8mm. I’d ask them what they had them for and I’d get “who knows where or when we may need them” answer..
Sheesh.
Yes, but it was a miracle that they lasted that long..the MAC-10 is a seriously cheaply-made weapon. Bet they didn’t cost more than $20 to make, counting man-hours.
I think the Liberator was better-designed and produced than the MAC-10.
Want more prestige and dependability than a MAC-10? Buy a Reising M-50!
thank you...
Best justification I've seen for a progressive reloading press...
With the sun behind you, you can see the bullets as a copper stream. Just direct the stream as if it were water from a hose nozzle.
Owner of the one I shot said, "Reload ammo all week, spend Saturday, stuffing magazines -- and blow it all away in an hour on Sunday afternoon. But it's a blast!"
From “Night of the Comet” “See that’s the problem with these things, Daddy would have gotten us UZI’s” ...
That's what I thought when I saw the headline!
I loved that movie as a kid!
Didja keep the empties or leave em at the range?
Nambu. You never know when that one may come back. LOL
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