A cursed Thompson? The Dineley sub machine gun with firearm and weapons expert Jonathan Ferguson 

It's small enough to be used by dwarfs and other diminutive mythical creatures.

Which part of that is not true? Ohhh Dineley 😂

I swear I read and thought the same thing 😂

I thought it was gonna be some weird custom ordered Thompson for Disney's security guards

same, Disney gun just seems right

I'm glad I'm not the only crossover enthusiast from the world of medieval weaponry and martial arts!

@@jevans80 I can almost guarantee Jonathan has seen a Skall video or two.

Came here to find this comment. Finally, a gun with a pommel 😂

Who said that? Only kidding, I'll mention it to the team :)

@@jonathanferguson1211 Also, a better microphone, or better sound editing. This video is very quiet. Some closer camera views would be nice too.

Maybe just a lighter colored cloth on the table, so the gun stands out a bit more.

I want James May to build me a shed.

@@rinoz47 Why? his stupid mates would just run it over with a JCB.

Lotus cars, RR, caterham, Morgan. Sheds are a wonderful thing.

@@handlesarefeckinstupid When you think about it, RSAF Enfield was just a big shed.

@@rinoz47 nah, he would be too busy arranging his tools.

The BAR wasn't used in WW1 to keep it from enemy hands.

@@jwwalker688 Well that was the intention of the design

@@jwwalker688 It was designed to be used in WW1, but it didn't get the chance cause the war was over before it got used, I'm sure that if the war would've taken another 4 years it would've been used

@@zupperm I'm not doubting you.

@@jwwalker688 That simply isn't true. It was used in combat by the US in WWI, but only in fairly small numbers because it only entered mass production in mid-1918. By the time large numbers were produced, delivered, inspected, shipped to Europe, sent to units, units were trained, and then went into the line with them, the war was over. There would also be no reason to keep it secret since there wasn't any new concept or anything. Gas operated machineguns weren't new and the automatic rifle concept was pretty clear with the Chauchat.

Lighting is poor too. This is very dark.

Wasn't that just medieval writers being funny? Adding humorous images to an otherwise serious book seems to have been a thing back then.

A pommel strike is when you hold the sword , mostly a two-hander or bastard sword, the other way around and hit the opponent on the helmet on topf of the head. Its devastating and can knock them out. Thats what the treatises are about. As normal sword strikes cannot defeat the armour. You try to find the gaps in the armour which is incredible difficult. Only maybe Don Quijote would throw a pommel. Sounds like bad craftsmanship too me if you could so easily remove a pommel during a fight. TLDR: you use the sword as poleaxe.

@@kleinerprinz99 Yes. It's an old joke and modern meme. Kind of in the same vein as Katanas being able to cut the world in twain because they're so sharp, Chuck Norris being the hardest man in the universe, and Russian-made Ak47s being physically indestructible.

I didn't want to be TOO on the nose with that one ;)

@@jonathanferguson1211 it's a tesco great value thompson, build in a shed, an "end it rightly" meme could be a selling point here

I agree the video is very dark making detail difficult to discern . A lighter table cover would be a start

Must be the energy shortage

@@aac7183 A white table cloth would be distorted by the camera white balance setting and come out grey. He can start with adding light, setting the gun down so the view is unobstructed and the focus has a chance.

@@12345NoNamesLeft . I appreciate your point . I mentioned a lighter table covering not specifically white . A lighter room would certainly help , looks like they film it in a basement with one bare lightbukb hanging from the ceiling .

No that would be the Volunteer Enterprises Commando Mk45. I'd know I owned one in the mid 1980's. Looked superficially like a Thompson but that's where it ended. I saw one once again fairly recently in a shop and when I picked it up I saw how dinky it was in my hands anymore and remembered why I sold it off in the first place.

I was actually curious about this meme. I hated the sound of my milspec buffer spring scraping against the inside of the buffer tube, so when I ordered a replacement coated spring I got a copy of it from Aliexpress, and it was so much cheaper that I added a weighted buffer, ambi charging handle and a blatant ripoff of a magul non-wobbly stock, all for basically the same price as just a spring from CTD. The end result of the cheapo chinese ripoff hardware actually ran really well and I put around 400 rounds through it that day at the range as I was sighting in the new red dot I got (not a cheapo copy with the laughable plastic lens, those are total garbage). I pulled the cheapo gear off before cleaning the rifle and putting it back in the safe, I wouldn't trust it not to break when I needed it... But in a pinch, just to play with? The Aliexpress gear was surprisingly solid. I'll keep it all around in case my legit Magpul furniture and upgraded spring and buffer gives me problems.

It doesn't help that the camera is on the other side of the room

The dark actually allows better contrast to see the markings on the firearm. Same reason Ian tends to use a black tablecloth when possible. If you give too much white in the background it blows out the subtle manufacturing marks. That all said, they could use some more light.

Have to agree.

Kinda does look a bit like a Colt SAA or some of those late 19th century military revolvers

I turned my TV volume up from 20 to 90

Not really

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 to be fair they weren't in sheds. they had been gathered together by the government and given funding and facilities. the department of miscellaneous weapons development (a.k.a. the wheezers and dodgers) had many such men in it's ranks.

No most of it was done by BSA, in factories.

That’s where you get a Chinese made Sten…

Wasn't it just seen as something rather unseemly? After all we referred to the Thompson as a "Gangster Gun". Plus with a professional standing army where rifle handling & marksmanship were key; think "Mad Minute" maybe the submachine gun just didn't fit into the doctrine of the time. Then we lost a lot of those trained troops; and their weapons at Dunkirk & had to rethink things somewhat. A bit like our early views on submarines as being "small, scruffy and silly" or as Admiral Arthur Wilson stated that 'submariners are nothing more than tradesmen and submarines are underhand, unfair, and damned un-English.' & that captured personnel should be hanged as pirates.

I think a lot of it is related to lessons learnt about things like marksmanship and tactics during the Boer wars.

They are always preparing for the last war.

Short answer - Britain was no slower than other nations to adopt the SMG. In 1939 they had more Thompsons than the entire US armed forces and went on to develop the Sten, which was produced in greater numbers than any other SMG. ( 6 million+). Hollywood is responsible for some false impressions by portraying German troops carrying large numbers of MP38/40’s when in fact they only ever produced about a million in total and actually preferred their copy of the Sten Gun but only issued SMG’s in limited numbers, similar to the British, for Line Infantry. The British Army ran a pretty thorough comparison in the 1930s and identified the Finnish Suomi as the best SMG available. Unfortunately, two problems intervened: firstly, it was an expensive, finely-machined piece of equipment, and secondly the Finns found themselves heading for a war with the USSR, meaning they were in no position to export weapons to the UK. The German MP28 was studied and copied as the “Lanchester”, mostly used by the Royal Navy and the RAF, but - again - it was an old-school weapon made by taking a block of steel and having skilled machinists cut away all the bits that weren’t a gun. Reliable, robust, but expensive and slow to produce. And so they turned to the Thompson until the advent of the Sten.

@@robertstallard7836 I am aware that MP40s are overrepresented in Hollywood WW2 movies but still the German military adopted submachine guns as standard weapons well before WW2 and the British military only in 1940 and started to use them more widely only after Dunkirk.

Perhaps Royal Armouries can lend you theirs :)

That's been fascinating me too. The overall curvature looks more like a muzzle loading duelling pistol though, but I doubt if one was the inspiration. A more likely source might have been WW1 machine guns such as the French 1914 Hotchkiss or the German MG 08/15.