Posted on 07/01/2016 5:22:04 PM PDT by Drew68
Working replicas of the Nazis' storm rifle, widely considered to be the world's first assault rifle, are now being produced in the U.S.
"It's been a surprise hit with us," said Mac Steil, co-owner of Hill & Mac Gunworks in Georgia, which has taken orders for 2,000 rifles since the product launch in January. "We sold more rifles the first day than we thought we'd sell all year."
Hill & Mac Gunworks, a startup in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta, is reproducing the STG 44 Sturmgewehr, which was developed for German soldiers in World War II. The German word "sturm" means to storm, or assault, and "gewehr" means rifle.
"This German STG 44 is where the name 'assault rifle' originated and it's the first one to be widely used," said Jim Supica, director of the NRA Museum in Fairfax, Virginia, which has an original Sturmgewehr in its collection. "The Sturmgewehr 44 was the predecessor of true modern assault rifles such as the Soviet AK-47 and the American M-16."
The original Sturmgewehrs are valued by gun enthusiasts and history buffs, selling for tens of thousands of dollars. Hill & Mac is selling its reproductions for $1,799.
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The brass can be reformed from .30-06 or any of the cartridges based on it.A bit of work but you’d be shooting something almost no one else would have.
Well, McNamara was a democrat, right? So, the M-16 is a democrat rifle.
Zastava makes everything.
I saw an article recently that ISIS had acquired some Stg-44’s.
Probably at a gun show and they got them through the internet.../s
The first time I remember seeing and holding a StG44 was in Germany in the mid-1970s. The tank battalion I was assigned to, B/1/32 Armor was on maneuvers and was in our night-time lager. One of the soldiers brought an old rusted rifle he found in a tree in the forested area where we were. The CO looked at it and the 1SG and a couple of other folks and someone recoginized it as a StG44. I don’t know what the CO did with it after we returned to Ray Barracks in Friedberg.
Interesting concept, but if one’s every used in a mass shooting...it will forever more be called an AR-15 by the MSM.
What about AstroTurf? We know who was behind that!
Most interesting. I’ve read a lot about the Sturmgewehr over the years. It would be nice to see a model of the real thing.
I saw,one in a picture of some guns captured from the Iaquis at the end of the second war against Saddam Hussein.
“original (but obscure) 7.92 x 33.”
The Kurz round IIRC
Yes indeed, but Anton Kalishnikov made sure that the weapon could be maintained by a Russian farmboy and would operate after getting muddy and wet. The StG44 was a masterpiece of machining. The AK-47 does not have the tight tolerances of the original and is easier to disassemble and clean.
If you need some Kurz rounds, Privi makes them.
http://www.sgammo.com/catalog/rifle-ammo-sale/792x33-kurz
Bingo!
Gee and the Nazis (or NSDAP short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) were SOCIALISTS too! Gee, just like Bernie Saunders!!!! Whodda thunk it?
Hey, CNN, you dou*******.......commie rifles work pretty well, too!
Narrative, narrative.
My son confiscated one in Afcrapistan. Some major relieved him of it.
Early on in the Syrian war were some pictures of captured rebel equipment, there must have been about 50 Sturmgewehr mixed in that pile.
Hill and Mac Gun works in Georgia.
Well, yes. The 47’s loose tolerances are well known.
“What do the “”Nazis’’ have to do with this rifle? Yeah, the Nazis were the ruling political party but the rifle was made for the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS.”
Now who do you think the Waffen SS worked for?They were the Official Army of Adolph Hitler and through him the Nazi party.
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