Showing posts with label machine pistol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machine pistol. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2012

Quiz of the Day - 16 November 2012

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A WWII era underground production gun forms today's question.

The gun's designer was a blacksmith and self-taught amateur gunsmith from Poland. During the German occupation of Poland he became a gunsmith of the local Bataliony Chłopskie underground Polish resistance organization. In spring of 1943 he completed a working prototype of his own submachine gun. Today, only a single example of the sub-machine gun or machine pistol exists.

Identify the gun. 

You may leave your answer as a comment below this thread. Alternatively, you may also mail your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The comments will be moderated for a period of 24 hours and will be published along with the answer.
Cheers!


Monday, November 12, 2012

Quiz of the Day - 12 November 2012

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What you see in the picture is a selective-fire 9x19 mm Parabellum caliber machine pistol. This is sometimes also categorized as a sub-machine gun. The photographed example has a telescopic site and a sound suppressor too.

Identify the handgun.

You may leave your answer as a comment below this thread. Alternatively, you may also mail your answer to shovon76[at]gmail[dot]com. The comments will be moderated for a period of 24 hours and will be published along with the answer.
Cheers!

Answer: The gun is Brügger & Thomet MP9 (Machine Pistol 9mm), designed and manufactured by Brügger & Thomet of Switzerland. In India, the elite Ghatak Platoons of the Indian Army are being equipped with this machine pistol.
Ali cracks this one too! :)

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