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Posted: 12/9/2001 9:39:56 PM EDT
| Was the Grease Gun the cheapest gun to produce ever, at $14.00 a gun in 1942? |
| I heard somewhere that during the battle for Stalingrad the Soviets were producing the PpSH in about 15 minutes a piece, issuing them directly to the soldiers from the factory and the test firing was done by pointing it at a German and pulling the trigger. Don't know about the cost but it had to be cheap. |
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I saw some "kits" in Shotgun News about a year ago. I haven't seem them since but then I don't read it every issue. I have seen one bootlegged and rewelded several years back. Since I never fired an original, I can't make a comparison, but it was sweet. .45's at about 500 rpm. I think I.M.A. has some kits left. Call around to all the companies that sell surplus parts kits and your bound to find one. If your gonna do what I think your gonna do then the UZI kits are better. Select fire you know. ;) |
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In 1945 Canada was making #4 Sten guns, with a magazine, magazine loader, comic book type instructions, packed in a box for air drop for $9.00 a gun. That was the cheapest Sten made. I think the Liberator pistol cost $1.50. It actually took longer to load the thing, than it took to make one. |
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JayC: Ah, inflation rears it's head. However, I think the survivor rate of Liberators plays a bigger part. These wern't exactly the kind of gun you'd hang onto for investment purposes. Another super cheap gun was the 1960's version of the liberator, the CIA "Deergun". |
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