[C19fan]

I remember that gun in all the 80s shows especially Miami Vice.

[Sasparilla]

But,it is great fun to shoot. Just have
alot of ammo when you do.

[Yo-Yo]

The MAC-10 Was an Over-Hyped Hunk of Junk

So was the TEC-9.

[Zathras]

From “Night of the Comet”
“See that’s the problem with these things, Daddy would have gotten us UZI’s” ...

[2banana]

Very accurate if you fire it ghetto sideways....

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Bruce Willis killed John Travolta in the bathroom with one. John never got to finish his book.

[Chainmail]

In the late 70s I was responsible for acquiring weapons and ammo for SEAL team 2 - an unusual and sometimes annoying job for a Marine captain. I received a request from them for a dozen MAC-10s and I told them it was ridiculous. They aren’t combat weapons and they weren’t even being made anymore. They got their favorite admirals involved, so I ended up buying them.

After they arrived, the SEALs took them to a Virginia Beach indoor range and burned through 6,000 rounds in a single session, trashing most of the guns and burning out the suppressors.

Glad we could provide an afternoon’s entertainment...

[Chewbarkah]

IIRC, in Lone Wolf McQuaid, Chuck Norris used a spin and a continous burst from his MAC-10 to mow down a vast arc of bandits arrayed on surrounding hillsides. His control of this precision weapon was bloody diabolical.

[Ouderkirk]

The MAC-10 etc was simply a “dump” weapon.

You walk up to confined space and “dump” the magazine into it.

It was never intended as a tactical weapon or at any real distance. It was designed to kill multiple occupants of a car or small room at close range. You drop it and run. Cheap and effective. It is not an extended service weapon, but more of a single use.

[Purdue77]

"While fighting their way through the Crimson Jihad camp, Harry (Arnold Schwarzenegger) hands Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis) a MAC-10 he took off a terrorist. In one of the film's more humorous scenes, Helen drops the weapon down a flight of stairs causing it to go off when it hits each step, the stray rounds scoring several kills. This scene was re-created on Mythbusters and thoroughly debunked. "

[Carriage Hill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0YF06ZFqs

[Southern_Republican]

Rick used one in Magnum PI. Opening scene in later years.

[Jack Deth]

“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.

[Bishop_Malachi]

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.

[BenLurkin]

[Lazamataz]

Interested in your take on this thread.

[real saxophonist]

A whole thread on the Mac-10, and not this picture yet?

[Larry Lucido]

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.

[Travis McGee]

Best subgun ever made.

For pounding in tent stakes.

[TXnMA]

Bullet hose.

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!"

[wardaddy]

Let’s ask a freeper who used one