Not sniper rifles but certainly "vintage"

[ArmedGinger]

Today my job involved playing with these... all completely original and functional. Not pictured were the FALs, the AKs, Daewoo, couple other thompsons, etc. Oh did I mention the 50 caliber Ma Deuce as well?

 

[camocorvette]

Those are beautiful. I'd love to have anyone of them.
I hope they were being handed out to needy Americans.
I really hope they weren't being demilled.

 

[ArmedGinger]

Those are beautiful. I'd love to have anyone of them.
I hope they were being handed out to needy Americans.
I really hope they weren't being demilled.

Sadly in Canada 99.9% can't own them which makes them very cheap. Sadly the US won't allow them to be imported.

 

[camocorvette]

Sadly in Canada 99.9% can't own them which makes them very cheap. Sadly the US won't allow them to be imported.

It's a sad world we live in.

 

[pitspitr]

It's a sad world we live in.

Indeed!

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Holy shit a Nambu Type 100... These are incredibly rare. These are designated as IJA 'paratroop' SMGs but most of them were issued to shotgun riding soldiers sitting in motorcycle sidecars guarding officers and high ranking officials as they are traveling in convoys. Chinese guerrillas always took aim at the motorcycle troops first when they were ambushing Japanese convoys. Many would snatch up the Type 100s first thing with glee when they found one, but quickly tossed them away and went back to their Hanyang or Zhongzheng rifles. Most of these Type 100s are probably barely recognizeable rusted hulks littering isolated forests and swamps in northeast China, and the rest along with several hundred rounds of ammo each, are neatly wrapped up in oil soaked canvas rags and sitting in barns or attics in Shandong, Shanxi, and Heilongjiang. I saw one back in 2008 over there where it had metal bars wrapped around the stock and was used as a war club and primarily as one, as the receiver had took a rifle shot directly to it's mechanism and was inoperable afterward. Without the magazine, canvas wrapped around the entire barrel for better grip, and the greatly beefed up stock with metal all around it, it really looked like one of these wicked Native American ball headed clubs and I thought it was one too, wondering just how the hell one had ended up in Heilongjiang, until closer inspection and I saw that it was a Type 100 SMG.

Edit: Correction: The SMG here is a Lanchester Mark I. Kudos to @Son of Dorn for spotting the differences.

 

[Son of Dorn]

Holy shit a Nambu Type 100... These are incredibly rare. These are designated as IJA 'paratroop' SMGs but most of them were issued to shotgun riding soldiers sitting in motorcycle sidecars guarding officers and high ranking officials as they are traveling in convoys. Chinese guerrillas always took aim at the motorcycle troops first when they were ambushing Japanese convoys. Many would snatch up the Type 100s first thing with glee when they found one, but quickly tossed them away and went back to their Hanyang or Zhongzheng rifles. Most of these Type 100s are probably barely recognizeable rusted hulks littering isolated forests and swamps in northeast China, and the rest along with several hundred rounds of ammo each, are neatly wrapped up in oil soaked canvas rags and sitting in barns or attics in Shandong, Shanxi, and Heilongjiang. I saw one back in 2008 over there where it had metal bars wrapped around the stock and was used as a war club and primarily as one, as the receiver had took a rifle shot directly to it's mechanism and was inoperable afterward. Without the magazine, canvas wrapped around the entire barrel for better grip, and the greatly beefed up stock with metal all around it, it really looked like one of these wicked Native American ball headed clubs and I thought it was one too, wondering just how the hell one had ended up in Heilongjiang, until closer inspection and I saw that it was a Type 100 SMG.

Nay, my friend, that's a British Lanchester Mk. I. The brass magwell and fire-select at the back of the receiver are identifiers. But they're both based on the MP18 submachine gun, with the Lanchester being a clone of the MP28 and the Type 100 being derived from the SIG 1920 with some bits on/bits off.

And the BAR variant is an FN Model D, a Belgian-made improved version of the FN Model 1930, which was a licensed copy of the Colt Model 1925. I can make out "Venezuela" on the magwell and since the magazine has an X-shape stamped into it, I'd think it's 7mm Mauser (but it could be .30-06 or 8mm).

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Nay, my friend, that's a British Lanchester Mk. I. The brass magwell and fire-select at the back of the receiver are identifiers. But they're both based on the MP18 submachine gun, with the Lanchester being a clone of the MP28 and the Type 100 being derived from the SIG 1920 with some bits on/bits off.

And the BAR variant is an FN Model D, a Belgian-made improved version of the FN Model 1930, which was a licensed copy of the Colt Model 1925. I can make out "Venezuela" on the magwell and since the magazine has an X-shape stamped into it, I'd think it's 7mm Mauser (but it could be .30-06 or 8mm).

Yo man, thanks for pointing that out! That took an eage eye to spot as these SMGs are so similar they can easily be confused for one another if one doesn't look closely.

Awesome spot out of the BAR as well.

 

[Son of Dorn]

Yo man, thanks for pointing that out! That took an eage eye to spot as these SMGs are so similar they can easily be confused for one another if one doesn't look closely.

Awesome spot out of the BAR as well.

Sometimes my gun-fu is strong! Comes from poring over reference books and all the WWII media I've inhaled over the years.