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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This what I heard. I supposed ISIS might have found a container too.
http://www.armoryblog.com/firearms/rifles/free-syrian-army-captures-5000-stg44s/
So the 88mm was a Nazi weapon? My friend you don’t have to lecture me of WW2 history and the Nazis, trust me. It’s just a rather peculiar headline to a story. So by this logic an M 1 rifle was what? A “”Republican rifle’’ or a Democrat rifle’’?
They used the layout but the AK-47 is a completely different machine.
I’m well aware of who the SS were working for, trust me. It’s just a peculiar head line for an article. To me there’s a certain subtext to it. But my point is it’s like saying an M1 rifle was a “Republican rifle’’ or a “Democrat rifle’’.
GSG (German Sport Guns) has been offering a .22lr replica version for a few years.
Thank you.
yes East German would likely be corrosive, though I do not know.
The WWII Germans were pretty much ahead in the use of non corrosive primers. The primary use of the older Zundhutchen 88 was in aircraft guns, where the rapid changes in temperature made the 30/40 primers less suitable.
One of the supposed pluses of the rifle was that it was made mainly of stamped sheetmetal parts and fewer machined parts making it cheap and easy to produce. $1800 for semi-auto copy isn’t exactly cheap.
Listen to the video at the link. It calls the Ruger 10-22 an “assault style rifle”!
You would think that after being disarmed by the Nazis, the people in the countries conquered by them would resist being disarmed by their own governments.
You get the most flack when you’re over the target.
$1,799.00 is about 1/10th the price an original StG44 would sell for. And, as others have noted, 8mm Kurz (7.92 x 33mm) is hard to get and pricey when you can.
Yup. The subtext here, as I see it, is to portray anyone who would buy this rifle as a “NRA-neo-Nazi gun -nut’’. F’ing CNN.
I WANT one!
Cheap price, also.
But ... I live in California. Can I purchase one with a clip that is legal? And also, I want it to chamber an ammo that is common and obtainable.
Or has California just outlawed my right?
Boy them Krauts sure could march, huh?
Well, I was going just on external looks, not the internals. But it makes sense that they took tech from all weapons they were exposed to. It’s what they do and I can’t say I fault them for it.
It’s not like we’ve never done that before.
You’re right. What can I say but “oops.”
The sights suck. No place to mount an optic or light. No threaded muzzle for muzzle toys. For that price you can build a 300BO SBR and get a cheap can and pay for both tax stamps. On the other hand it does have a certain Teutonic good looks and diversity is our strength, right?
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