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Now to disassemble the rest of the gun, remove the firing pin assembly. You can also now see how the lower works, it’s pretty simple, it’s just a wedge that’s connected by a transfer-bar of the trigger. Then you’re gonna pull the trigger while rotating the upper and lower halves away from each other, this allows them to be separated.Īnd you can undo the sling if you wish to separate them further. Then you are going to take the disc right here, pull it down and rotate, it locks itself once you rotate it. There is a large button on the left side of the gun that allows you to do this. So, anyways, let’s get to field-stripping and the first thing you are going to want to do is remove the magazine. That makes it so no matter what you do, if you pull the trigger, there is no way that bolt is going forward unless I guess the handle sheared off. When it’s open, you can also lock the bolt to the rear in a slot located on the receiver tube. They are also very safe firearms for being open bolt, you can actually lock the charging handle forward to not allow the bolt to be pulled to the rear or you can unlock it and charge the firearm.Īnd then the seal holds the bolt because these are open-bolt firearms. Its also got a threaded barrel, there were proprietary suppressors made for these as it’s my understanding and of course, blank-firing attachments for training and whatnot. They are also very compact for getting in and out of vehicles or for paratroppers and they feature really nice folding stock, it’s a bit wobbly, but hey, it’s better than no folding stock. Magazine holds 32 rounds of nine millimeter parabellum which is a pretty reasonable capacity for today, two more than the Thompson.Īlso got cool features such as a baked-like resting bar for resting outside of a halftrack or something like that so you don’t mess up the barrel or what have you. However, some of the magazines the alies found said his name on there. The MP40 served the German military throughout the conflict and was kind of the Thompson’s nemesis on the western front and known colloquially as the “Schmeisser”, despite the fact that it wasn’t designed by him. Today’s field-strip is gonna be of a German MP40 from the Second World War.
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