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Can You match the weapon to a Historic event/person
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1) M16 - US Army during Vietnam Era.

2) Stoner SMG - Special Ops (Navy Seals) - Vietnam.

3) CAR15- Special Ops (US Army) - Vietnam.

3) Thompson SMG - 'Baby-Face Nelson' US Gangsters of 1920's & 1930's.

4) BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) - Clyde Barrow - US Gangster of 1930's.

5) HK MP4 - British SAS - Iranian Embassy in London Assault.

6) 'Buntline' .22cal - 'Charles Mansion'

7)(a)9mm Uzi- Entebbie(SP) Assault - Israeli counter-hijacking assault
(b)9mm Uzi- Israeli forces - 'Six- Day War'
(c)9mm Uzi- Ronald Reagan assassination attempt
(d)9mm Uzi- Terminator (Arnold!!)

8)FAL - African 'Bush' Wars - 1970's-1980's

9)(a)AK47- Black September - Munich Olympics
(b)AK47- Warsaw Pact
(c)AK47- Middle Eastern based Terrorist Organizations
(d)AK47- US 'gang' drive-bys & urban violence
(e)AK47- North Vietnamese Army & Viet Cong - Vietnam Era.

10).44 Magnum - 'Dirty Harry' (Clint Eastwood).

11)Dan Wesson .44 'Auto Mag' - 'Sudden Impact' (Dirty Harry / Clint Eastwood).

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M1917 30 cal. watercooled MG.....GySgt J.M. Basilone, Guadalcanel
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M1911A1 45 cal seni-auto pistol..."Spike" Jones (yes the band leader) takes out a jap MG pillbox.
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Charter Arms 44sp Bulldog....Son of Sam.
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M16....Hill 881 Nam, one jammed M16 beside each dead Marine.
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M1911A1..Sgt Coo 3rd platoon B Co 3rd AT Bn puts one of his own 106mm recoiless rifles out of action on his M50A1 "Ontos" (@#$%$#@ Pig) while playing with his pistol in a roadblock postion, Hue Nam.
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22 cal Saterday night special pistol...President. Ronald Reagan asssassination attempt.
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Thompson - Sgt Saunders (Vic Morrow) on COMBAT
BAR - Littlejohn on COMBAT Laughing

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Don,

make that the HK MP5 with the SAS, also on the Mogadishu raid by the German GSG 9.

Add the Six-Day as well as the Yom-Kippur war, Malaya, Yemen, Northern Ireland and the Falklands conflict to the FAL's credits.

Sten SMG- WWII

MP40 SMG- WWII, Viet Nam

BAR- WWII, Korea, Viet Nam

Mauser 98k and variants- WWI, WWII, IDF, African Bush wars, Central and South American conflicts

H&K G3 and variants- almost any bush war/conflict in the Southern hemisphere within the past two to three decades

I'll spare you the dubious credits of the Reising SMG... Cool

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FN MAG - African Bush wars , Falklands Conflict

Galil / R4 - Middle-East & latter stages of Angolan War

Lee Enfield rifles - WWI , WWII and Korea
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M1917 Enfield - Sergeant Alvin York
Winchester model 1895-.405 win.-Teddy Roosevelt
Colt 1973 Slngle Action Army ( Ivory grips) - George S. Patton, Jr
Colt 1973 Slngle Action Army "Buntline Special" - Wyatt Earp, Hugh O'Brian, Burt Lancaster, Kurt Russel, Kevin Costner
Remington Model 700 (AKA M40 ) - Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock
Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/1930 - Vasily Zaytsev


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Mannlicher Carcano Fucile M 91/38 - Lee Harvey Oswald/JFK Assassination

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How could I've missed "Whitefeather". I can't remember when we went to his services at Virginia Beach it seems like yesterday and yet I can't remember the date.
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U.S. M1 rifle cal 30..WWII,Korea,Nam. I would watch the RVN go by with M1 rifles and no slings so the used comm wire in place of the slings, man that had to hurt.
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U.S. M1 carbine 30 cal WWII,Korea,Nam
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U.S. M2 carbine 30 cal Korea
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Its Win model 95 in 405 cal for Teddy
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Never looked into which rifle York used M1903 or M1917
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BREN gun cal 303 and 7.62 mm NATO WWII,Korea, and forever.
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U.S. M14 rifle cal 7.62mm...Nam and still going strong.
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M2HB 50 cal MG...Audi Murphy.


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York carried an Enfield. It is a common assumption that he carried a a Springfield.

If we are just listing weapons associated with conflicts, The 30-40 Krag was the standard weapon of the U.S. in the Spanish American War and into the Phillipine 'experience'

The PPSH was adopted by the Soviets after encountering it (or maybe it's predecesor) in the Russo Finnish war. It was popular with both the Soviets and the Germans in the cold of the Eastern Front, and encountered by the U.S. in teh hands of teh North Koreans and Chinese in Korea.

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Ok,OK, I got it...Reising SMG... 1971 Bosie Idaho police dept members shoot three holes in the ceiling of the squad room while playing round with the one reising gun in their station, police Chief really pissed at Marine I&I staff for giving them 45 cal ammo.
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- bsmart

The PPSH was adopted by the Soviets after encountering it (or maybe it's predecesor) in the Russo Finnish war. It was popular with both the Soviets and the Germans in the cold of the Eastern Front, and encountered by the U.S. in teh hands of teh North Koreans and Chinese in Korea.


The Soviets encountered the Finnish m/31 Suomi SMG in the Winter War. It's not that they didn't have any SMG's of their own but they were mostly bad designs, they didn't have them in numbers and doctrine was sketchy on their use. The Finns issued them to entire ski platoons together with 70 round drums, the volume of firepower these fast moving small units could aim at an enemy was unseen and unheard of before the ill-fated invasion. The Soviets changed doctrine and started development of SMG's that resulted in the adoption of the PPSh 41. The 70 round drum of the Suomi was carbon copied an manufactured in the millions.

And in turn the Finns put all PPSh's captured in the Continuation War in frontline use and also copied the PPSh 43 and issued it as the M44.

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Podbyrin 9.2mm (44 Desert Eagle)- Arnold (again)
Walther PPK - James Bond

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- Rikard_Hufschmied
Podbyrin 9.2mm (44 Desert Eagle)- Arnold (again)
Walther PPK - James Bond


Podbyrin 9.2mm (44 Desert Eagle)- Arnold (again)....I assume that is from 'Red Heat'.

I pride myself at being a fairly decent movie trivia buff Rolling Eyes . Of course this is partially due to many years of 'Not having a Life'. Shocked Mr. Green

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Mannlicher Carcano Fucile M 91/38 - Lee Harvey Oswald/JFK Assassination


I thought it was a higher quality Mauser, that ended up turning into the Mannlicher Carcano,.... Cool

CONSPIRACY!!!! Shocked Mr. Green

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How could I've missed "Whitefeather". I can't remember when we went to his services at Virginia Beach it seems like yesterday and yet I can't remember the date.
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U.S. M1 rifle cal 30..WWII,Korea,Nam. I would watch the RVN go by with M1 rifles and no slings so the used comm wire in place of the slings, man that had to hurt.
...
U.S. M1 carbine 30 cal WWII,Korea,Nam
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U.S. M2 carbine 30 cal Korea
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Its Win model 95 in 405 cal for Teddy
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Never looked into which rifle York used M1903 or M1917
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BREN gun cal 303 and 7.62 mm NATO WWII,Korea, and forever.
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U.S. M14 rifle cal 7.62mm...Nam and still going strong.



Wasn't it the M21 'sniper system' that survived (in limited numbers) all these years. Resurrected in mass 'issue' during 'Op Iraqi Freedom' ?


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M2HB 50 cal MG...Audi Murphy.


Of course don't forget the burning M10 Tank destroyer to go with the 'Ma-Deuce'....YEAH FINALLY.....ARMOR REFERENCE!!!!

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