[rodeocowboy]

What's a burp gun?

[ErnBatavia]

What's a burp gun?

Fifties-speak for an automatic rifle...."Tommy Gun"

[ErnBatavia]

[DPB101]

Burp guns are not mentioned anymore are they? In the 1950s, every kid wanted a toy burp gun. Or a grease gun. They were stubby little automatics. Like an Uzi.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The photo in Post #50 is a Burp Gun, what the G.I.'s called the Soviet PPSh-41 7.63mm submachine gun. This was the primary Soviet infantry weapon of the Great Patriotic War, millions were made, and Uncle Joe had plenty to send to Mao and Kim il Sung. Chinese human wave attacks with Burp Gunners in the first wave literally mowed down anything above ground in their path, hosing bullets out of their 71-round drum magazines in one continous roar that sounded like a giant belch. The 7.63mm round is just a slightly hotter .32 Auto, and the effective range of the PPSh-41 was about 100 yards, so it was more a weapon for assault and storm. Soviet military doctrine used them like long range bayonets.