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.
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The Masterpiece Arms clone fires from a closed bolt.
The Masterpiece Arms .45 auto version weighs around 6 pounds and it has the original Mac chamber specs which makes it difficult to re-size the brass case if one reloads.
A friend of mine was a Class III dealer. It was one of his in 9mm.
IIRC, when firing from the shoulder, and emptying a 32 Rd mag, it would run out of ammo before the first empty brass hit the ground.
It was around 1978. He offered to sell me the
MAC 10,or a potbelly M2 Carbine for his cost. $250.00 + transfer fees. I didn’t do it. My favorite MG of his was a .50 he had mounted on a ring mount on his half track.
He had it at his place in West Texas and took my son and it to a Texas machine gun shoot. It was the star of the show.
The BAR was fun to shoot too.
My wife got to shoot the MAC 10 and a WWII Thompson.
Ah, the Nambu. Only seen them in print, never in person. I read in Gun Digest how to form cases for those wanting to fire their specimens, but I ain’t that brave, had I one. I fired my .30 Broomhandle Mauser and it felt and sounded like a full-charge .357 Magnum. I didn’t align it with my head though, those bolt stops were rumored to be weak, and I didn’t want it sticking out of my eye had it failed!
Yes, MAC-10 and M-11/9 fires from open bolt.
About ATF and federal law - they don't allow sale to civilians of any machine guns produced after 1986 - open or closed bolt.
Beyond that ATF does not allow semi-auto firearms that fire OPEN bolt to be sold to civilians because of the supposed ease of converting to full auto.
Mine was used to make new brass from surplus ammo for reloading fodder for my Hk MP5SDA3........quickly. Best progressive “bullet puller” a guy could get back then , a MAC-11 !
She’s Sarah Connor if only Sarah Conner was pretty.
Let’s ask a freeper who used one
My brain ran late
Wade has the semi version
Heavy
Made in Georgia or Alabama per request
Looks cool though
Nice gun for assassinations because it fits well in a briefcase and works like a saw close up.
The lunch went reasonably well, and Werbell was in an expansive mood when my friend drove him back to his hotel. Werbell insisted that my friend then go up to his room for a few minutes to "see something interesting" and get the terms for a potential investment. Once the door was closed, Werbell pulled a briefcase out from under the bed, opened it, and quickly assembled the contents into a MAC-10 and silencer while reciting his sales pitch.
Werbell, without slowing his sales patter, piled up the room's telephone books on the floor -- and fired off a full clip into the stack. Empty shells ejected and flew off in all directions, pinging against the walls, the TV set, and furniture. With the MAC-10 empty and a blizzard of confetti still falling about the room, Werbell turned toward my friend, grinning: "How do you like it? Do you want to try a clip?"
My friend declined and said that instead they needed to leave. Werbell shrugged his shoulders and agreed, then swiftly disassembled and stowed the MAC in the briefcase and put a hundred dollar bill under the ashtray by the bed. Since Werbell had already checked out and stowed his luggage, he and my friend took the nearest exit, shook hands, and parted. For the next few weeks, my friend half expected a call or visit from the FBI or ATF.
I shot the semi-auto version once, and with about four rounds left in the magazine it decided to self-convert to Class III. The first two hit the target, but no idea where the last two went other than “up”.
Can’t believe nobody pinged you yet. Falling down on the job.
They left them at the range..
After all, they didn’t pay for them..
Looks cool, and it’s part of history. It was a quicky ripoff of the Uzi using cutting edge stamping etc for cheap construction. It fit a niche perfectly at low cost. With the suppressor it’s controllable and still under coat/jacket concealable. It was and is fearsome in Latin America. Commonly it was the dude riding bitch with the MAC-10 in .45 caliber who killed the big shot in the Mercedes. It was so rampant that some countries outlawed two dude on one moto. Just too freaking scary to the upper class, with no real antidote. Two guys on a liter bike, one with an SMG, is extremely deadly, in any time or place. For that “phone booth range” type of work, an Ingram with a can is about perfect. Very high cyclic rate, fully controllable with the leverage of the can. Gets hot fast. But for putting 30 rounds into a guy in about 2 seconds at two yards, it’s still hard to top. Fanning across a room with that cyclic puts a lot of hurt on a group in a hurry. And of course, the moto alongside your driver’s window out of nowhere.
I think Archy was more Swedish K , M3 grease gun or Madsen 50 era.....:o)
Quite right, briefcase models were common.
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