Posted on 02/27/2017 5:39:12 AM PST by marktwain
On 9 February 2017, in Israel at the city of Petah Tikva, a Palestinian identified as Sadeq Nasser Abu Mazen, attempted a terror attack. The attack was not very successful. One man was shot in the leg, and a couple of others were hit by bullet fragments or shards of material fragmented by bullets. The weapon that failed in this attack was a small shop produced submachine gun.
The Israeli term for improvised submachine guns is a “Carlo”. The term derives from the similarity to the Carl Gustav M/45 9mm submachine gun. The Carl Gustav was made under license for a time in Egypt. It was the inspiration for the small shop/improvised weapons. The gun jammed several times. From timesofisrael.com:
Just before 5:00 p.m., the gunman, opened fire at a bus near the Petah Tikva market on Baron Hirsch Street. One a man in his 50s was shot in the leg, while two women — one in her 50s, the other in her 30s — were hit by shrapnel, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.He was identified by Palestinian media as Sadeq Nasser Abu Mazen, 18, from Beita al-Foka, a village south of Nablus.
The Palestinian teenager used a Carlo-style submachine gun, a comparatively cheap improvised firearm, which is prevalent in the West Bank. Carlos, which are often cobbled together from water pipes and spare parts, are notoriously unreliable, and the weapon used in the attack apparently jammed multiple times.
What is normally an automatic weapon was only able to fire a shot every few seconds, according to videos from the scene. An eyewitness told Walla news that the gunmen also entered a shop and tried to open fire, but his gun wouldn’t work at all.
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Quality control can be lacking in back room shops.
“...Submachine guns are some of the simplest repeaters to make...”
Apparently, the Palies are similar to the Rats over here: Not real bright, violent and very low information-type individuals.
“The terrorist, 19-year-old Sadiq Nasser Abu Mazen from Beita, was moderately hurt when civilians neutralized him, hitting him with a sewing machine.”
Must have been an improvised sewing machine. LOL
“Submachine guns are some of the simplest repeaters to make.”
No matter how fool proof a gun is developed, evolution has a ready supply of greater fools - these greater fools are called Muslims.
1,400 years of first cousin incest has genetic consequences, and Muslims are walking, talking, drooling examples.
“The terrorist, 19-year-old Sadiq Nasser Abu Mazen from Beita, was moderately hurt when civilians neutralized him, hitting him with a sewing machine.”
I wonder if it had a high-cap bobbin...
Did it leave him in stitches?
Was it an assault sewing machine?
maryland has just voted to outlaw sewing machines with high capacity spools...
more to follow.
Hi cap bobbins are disallowed on assault sewing machines sold to the public
“Did it leave him in stitches?”
If it had been my mother’s old treadle-powered Singer it would have killed him outright.
They are only for military use.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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With all the AK-47s floating around the Middle East, I wonder why this mope couldn’t get his hands on one? It seems there should have been thousands of Palimoron volunteers who would have lent him one of theirs for the day rather than taking the risks themselves.
I am informed that the way one got rid of unwanted visitors on the doorstep in Glasgow in the '30s was to drop a sewing machine on them . . .
With all the AK-47s floating around the Middle East, I wonder why this mope couldn’t get his hands on one?
According to the article, black market AK 47s cost about $15,000 dollars, while an black market, small shop submachine gun of poor quality can be had for as low as $750.
Much depends on the local market. I understand that an AK 47 can be had in parts of Africa for $50.
Is the sewing machine okay?
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