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I don't know about that but the RUC were finding stolen Irish Army weapons into the so-called Border Campaign of the 1950/60s.
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The rumour goes that more was recovered than was lost.Comment
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That's what I heard ,Originally posted by DeV View Post
In the following searches for the arms. the Army and Gardai came across lots
of Terrorist arms dumps so ended up with a profit.
The truth did not make a good story,Comment
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No, never used them.Originally posted by FLYER115 View Post
When it was decided to adopt a machine gun after the war, the Sten was not the obvious choice, it was after all an emergency wartime design and while cheap to make and easy to use, it had problems with accidental discharges and was prone to jamming. Even the British were phasing them out, the Sterling being adopted in 1953.Comment
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And the Gustav didn't?Originally posted by paul g View Post"Fellow-soldiers of the Irish Republican Army, I have just received a communication from Commandant Pearse calling on us to surrender and you will agree with me that this is the hardest task we have been called upon to perform during this eventful week, but we came into this fight for Irish Independence in obedience to the commands of our higher officers and now in obedience to their wishes we must surrender. I know you would, like myself, prefer to be with our comrades who have already fallen in the fight - we, too, should rather die in this glorious struggle than submit to the enemy." Volunteer Captain Patrick Holahan to 58 of his men at North Brunswick Street, the last group of the Four Courts Garrison to surrender, Sunday 30 April 1916.Comment
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Did the Sten have the capability to self-cock?Comment
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I believe the sten was even more prone to the problem.Originally posted by Vickers View PostComment
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The only time I ever saw the Sten gun being used by the irish army, was in an episode of Father Ted when one of the priests drives through a road block and gets fired on by a soldier with a sten gun.Comment
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That was not the Irish Army. It was the brits and it was a Sterling not a Sten.Originally posted by backsturd View PostComment
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That sounds like (from your description) the US "Grease Gun" used in WWIIOriginally posted by Goldie fish View Post
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.... and the aforementioned Carl Gustav.......
Judge for yourselves......"Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"Comment
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I'll have to find the photo again, but I think the magazine was fed into the pistol grip, Uzi style.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.Comment
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The Madsen is younger than the Gustav so no.Originally posted by Pod View Post
I think we can clear this up now. The Thompson was the Armys first SMG in use and the Gustav was the first standardised SMG.Comment
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here's a listing of the weapons of the Df during ww2 from a very good site called Dan's war Room, which details equipment available to the Df duriung the war.
It lists 21 thompsons and 15 bergman submachine guns ( MP 18 /28?) being in service at the start of the the war, with a further 99 Thompsons being acquired during the conflict.
http://www.skynet.ie/~dan/war/equip.htmComment
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Great find. Thanks paul g.Originally posted by paul g View Post
That answers alot of question.Comment
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