That did cross my mind!Anyone want to guess whether or not at least one of those rifles still has a round chambered?
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Found this on a video about weapons disposal following World War 2. A lot of rifles!
He probably would have stacked them higher, to Bannerman levelsIsn't that Sam Cummings' warehouse?
OH my gosh! There's a name I haven't heard in a LOOOOOONG time!He probably would have stacked them higher, to Bannerman levels
That was my dream garage when I was 10 and reading all the gun rags, as well as Shooter's Bible.Isn't that Sam Cummings' warehouse?
Or Jimmy Hoffa... Sorry, Mods...I couldn't resist... Can anyone identify those rifles? I'm thinking Japanese Arisakas after the surrender...???(assuming the crate with the Ark of the Covenant isn't buried under one of these piles.)
Or Jimmy Hoffa... Sorry, Mods...I couldn't resist... Can anyone identify those rifles? I'm thinking Japanese Arisakas after the surrender...???
I'm reasonably sure that most of us that are reading this thread would also like to see this video. Got a link?View attachment 1196635
Found this on a video about weapons disposal following World War 2. A lot of rifles!
How many of those rifles were never fired in battle, I wonder? Think of how many of them were lying on the beaches at Normandy alone.Anyone want to guess whether or not at least one of those rifles still has a round chambered?
I would argue that they became obsolete in 1936 when the United States adopted the M1 Rifle.All major countries engages in WW II had between 2 and 8 million bolt action rifles in their armories. In 1945 all of these became obsolete.
ETA: The fact that no other nation adopted semi automatic battle rifles prior to WWII, especially after the "bad guys" came to power, baffles me.
I would say it was due to monetary reasons. Bolt guns worked, Armories were full of them in 1939, but the basis of the German and Japanese squads were light machine guns. The riflemen were more or less there to protect the light machine gunner.
The big money were spent on aircraft. All combatants spent about 50% of their defense budget on aircraft. The Navy was the second highest expenditure (the Soviets did not have much of a Navy). It was surprising to find that land groups had a lower funding priority than rockets.
Link to the original video;I'm reasonably sure that most of us that are reading this thread would also like to see this video. Got a link?
"Can't have our subjects be armed. Too dangerous to our exclusive use of power. Those Americans are crazy, letting their subjects have guns."Here, the DCM sold excess weapons to citizens. Probably not a high percentage of those scrapped or given to our alleged allies, but something the foreigners did not do at all.
Now where did I put serial #345902?
Ian McCollum released a video on this subject recently, comparing the s.a. battle rifle programs of the U.S., Germany, and the Soviet Union:I would argue that they became obsolete in 1936 when the United States adopted the M1 Rifle.
ETA: The fact that no other nation adopted semi automatic battle rifles prior to WWII, especially after the "bad guys" came to power, baffles me.
There's a bunch of 'em! Looks to me like at least 8K in each of the two main piles (one "pile" in front of the guy, one behind him). The layers appear to me to be layers of 10 rifles because the rifles are alternated muzzle and butt, 5 laying each direction per layer. Then there looks to be about 20 layers per stack (layers alternate North/South and East/West) = 200/stack. Then there appears to be at least 10 stacks per row = 2000 rifles/row, and, 4 rows per pile = 8K/pile. Then there are more that we're not even trying to count, and who know how many that aren't in the photo.I just made a rough estimate of the neatly stacked rifles in layers of 5. There's on the order of 10K rifles visible in this photo's foreground (assuming the crate with the Ark of the Covenant isn't buried under one of these piles.)