The MP-40: History’s Most Infamous SMG 

When you spot a commie..

Wow

Fucking love this gun! #akgnotificationsquad

Would love to see admin. on the channel more, especially for meme review

Brandon where Galil video

This group is IMPOSSIBLE to cancel!

Let's cancel Dave first

lol

LOL

One of you needs to dye your hair blond and reach for something with your right hand

Literally when I heard it I thought of the game hell let loose

@Edohiguma I'm glad that it is! I really like how songs have a way of transcending times and places, like the British writing Yankee Doodle and the American Colonists appropriating it, or that the Union Army loved Dixieland, and it is still in the US Army songbook today.

@Edohiguma is it really?

Erika is the fortunate son of ww2 everyone has heard its the base song to play when showcasing anything ww2 german hes doesn’t have a good taste in music when the song is very common

@@carved6749 Brandon does have excellent taste in music, the fact that he understands the meaning of the song and that it is not "just" a "Nazi song" shows that. Also Brandon plays many other excellent song on this channel besides this one.

Yup. But I think "Original ghetto blaster" went right over most peoples heads, which may be for the best.... and that Erika timing was perfect.

Yup, great duo

@@ianmedford4855 sadly the irony wasn't lost on me either, Dark humour XD , don't ya love it lol

@@ianmedford4855 I just about broke my rib laughing at that. 😅

@@ianmedford4855 that joke was so fuck up that I felt bad laughing at it. lol

​@@EarlOSandwichThe 80s were a different fuckin time man. Kids bringing their rifles to school just cause. I remember a story about a shooting threat on a high school in the 80s, and the teachers and students just went and grabbed their rifles from their trucks, sat by the doors, and just waited. The shooting didn't happen, by the way.

That’s nuts

Damn the 80's were crazy.

When my dad was a kid, one day he brought a .32 revolver loaded with blanks to school. During an assembly that day he popped off a couple of rounds. The principal just told him to knock it off.

Bro took an mp-40 to school?!

Nerd

@@gitmochimkins nerd

@@7thhokage87 no u

@@7thhokage87 nurd.

@@panzerabwerkanone terd

oooooooohhhh that one flew right past me for some reason, holy moly i love brandons humor

That flew be me, too. But now my left corner of the mouth is meeting the right one some where on the backside of my head. xD

It's funny, I'm pretty sure the Thompson is about 2 decades older than the mp40 though

@@dontreallyknowwhatmynamesh5538 Oh, it is. But the Thompson was meant as a "trench broom" for CQB work to clear out enemy trenches after you've managed to go over the top, cross No Man's Land and reach the enemy trench without getting gunned down by machine gun fire. And it didn't see combat service until WW2, when Lend-Lease ones got used by the Brits.

It’s certainly “edgy” to make Holocaust jokes (“original ghetto blaster” and “concentrate” comments). It’s also interesting that he’s making these comments while LARPing as a fascist (not commenting on the song FYI) and simultaneously claiming to hate fascists. I get the edgy nature of his jokes generally, and find many of them funny/harmless, but this fell flat for me. Will he change because I commented? No, and I don’t expect him to. I’m not the content police. Will I still watch his videos? Yes. Many of them are funny. I just want the channel to stick around and grow on merit instead of self destructing because of preventable injury (potential social media TOS violations).

Also as a German, I second your comment.

Als Deutscher stimme ich zu

Ah ein weiterer sauerkraut virtuose

Zuspruch!

@Monochromatikkann das nicht anfassen!

Don’t tell the rhinos

Lol

@@rubber_man647 lol so anyone who isnt a goose stepping fascist is a rhino lol

​@TheRogueEmpire are you implying that Brandon is a nazi?

@@TheRogueEmpire After looking at your weird channel of little girl anime p0rn loving gamer stuff, you shouldn't be throwing stones. He made VERY clear in the video he is opposed to Fascism. He's also opposed to Communism but loves AKs. And yes the majority of his opponents are rhinos.

yea, for that part I'm surprised they didn't know the exact history behind the threading or other features considering Gun Jesus over at FW has a video on this exact subject from 2017 ( because of course he does lol), i watched it the other day, he explains both the mp38 and mp40's reasons for having certain features (and how the mp38 is a much nicer version of this gun in every way) and that a lot of these features are there because they're carry-overs from the mp-18 and mp-36 designs.

@@thekamotodragonNerd.

@@phoenixrider4622 ok.

@@phoenixrider4622 no u

@@phoenixrider4622 hes amazing and explaining smth to someone and being a nice and kind human being if u dont like the fact hes smarter than u than maybe u should just get a book and read it or watch videos about stuff to learn smth so maybe one day u could actually be useful instead of living in ur moms basement crying to stranger on the internet that have probably achieved more in life than u would ever be capable of

My buddy works for them. Great people, they get all their stuff from locally owned mom and pop farms.

Cannadips dislikes the feds..I’m shocked lol

"Your winnings, sir."

@@junioraltamontent.7582 Got my vote, always support your home

I love how accurate this is.

But less communist.

a KK-MPi 69 would be nice

Damn that’s so true! I hadn’t even thought of it.

Needs RPD

Nice job remembering the MP41. I’d do unspeakable actions to get my hands on a 41.

@@ratgobblerMe too! Rare as hen's teeth: the things must be worth a fortune.

@@MSM4U2POM I saw one on Rock Island Auction a couple months ago, for about $40,000. That’s about as much as four Barretts, or one (1) round of 7mm Remington Magnum.

@@ratgobblerBloody Hell! Just as I thought: a second mortgage job!

My sides are in a geosynchronous orbit.

I enjoyed it

We need a Forbidden Eagle patch

BUM BUM BUM. . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ERRRRRIIIKA

Forbidden flecktarn.

Couldn’t agree more lol

I agree! They really just build off each other with their goofiness, nerdiness, etc.

BIG AGREE

Eh

Best kind of collab

It's "Kamerad", male singular, "Kameradin", female singular. Kein Problem, gern geschehen (no problem, you're welcome).

Das nenne ich doch mal deutsche Ingenieurskunst… That is what I call German engineering…

Das deutsche Volk dankt

@@olafbuddenberg4787 Tut mir Leid. Ich sprech schon seit einiger Zeit kein Deutsch mehr und Grammatik war nie wirklich mein Ding

@@sirascaron for not speaking German, that sentence was pretty much perfect. Don't listen to the grammar... germans... though. Writing a youtube comment without 100% perfection is still a thing lol

the MP40 was truly a SMG of its generation, when people realized having a mastercrafted artisanal SMG didn't grant enough firepower, so they went with the concept of "if it's stupid but works then it ain't stupid" For further implements of the generation, please see the STEN, M3, PPS43, Vigneron, MAT49 and basically any SMG made until the creation of the Uzi, the MP5 and the Beretta PM12

@@DonPatrono I definitely feel the Sten and M3 are the main ones, children of wartime production

@@DonPatrono Kiraly 43m crying in the corner

Tube guns are awesome i also love the grease gun

@@marcosaruca5283 And the M3 is about as tube gun as tube gun gets.

If you're talking about the Commie Tommy, he did a video on that a few months ago.

@@kurokaze511 A video on one yes, but he has a parts kit for one kicking around and hasn't had one on the channel yet.

@@VexChoccyMilk yeah he did. A month ago he did a video about the one he made. Go to his channel it's the 12th video down in his uploads.

theres a pps 41 on the wall

@@kurokaze511 that was an AK not a PPSH-41, Brandon actually has a parts kit for a PPSH-41which he still hasn't put together in two years

As a German I can confirm this is 100% historically correct

As a German i say yes

As a German i say ab Morgen wird zurück geschossen

ze germanz approve

And your last name is Müller🙄

Its not the eastern front salute its the basic hitlergruß which was a salute often used to greet higher ranked officers than urself

300 like

@@HimyNamesN r/whoosh

@@paulfrancistorres7144 not really

Roman Salute

That would have been purposely matched by the editor bro... Slow mo is whatever speed you set it at, so it was on purpose but no less awesome!

Thanks for his service these mp40s are for sure reliable

Shame he didn’t keep it as war spoils. An original captured MP-40 would be worth bank today, or even just be one of the most awesome legacy guns a person could ask for.

Great men, thanks to your father for his help! General Patton is resting here in Luxembourg where I live now and my people, Serbs, suffered a lot from the nazi germany as we allied with the US & Allies, same as in the 1st world war. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Halyard).

I know why not. There was a case of friendly fire when an a in American unit got shelled because a guy used an MP40. The guys next to them, if memory serves correct, part of the big red 1,called in the fire mission because they knew the sound of an MP40 and assumed they must be Germans.

I’ve heard of stories that are like that (cuckoo the US Panther tank) but I only thought is was with vehicles, I wouldn’t have expected it with firearms due to ammo and mag incompatibility but your mad lad of a father clearly didn’t care, he gave them a taste of their own medicine

Does it look like 34 to you?!

​@@AlmostSickBoy i would have said too but i am unsure because of the barrel.....

@@custom13. as for me, firing rate speaks quite loud about that is MG 42

Both MG34 and MG42

@@AlmostSickBoy like i said i am unsure about it but now that you mentioned that yeah i think you are onto something

Absolutely! No nation would ever make such a nice gun and use it for nefarious purposes!

This but unironically

It's cute when the allies think they're moral.

No one who speaks German could be an evil man

69th like, nice

"Original Ghetto Blaster"

You god-damned right brother, you god-damned right!

The Sten and Grease Gun also have as slow or slower rates of fire but the MP40 is smoother than both.

@@ExpatriotSilencers never shot either of those but having shot the mp40 the ergos are pretty good for a subgun of the era, personally i think the sten guns are god awful ugly but the brits did churn out alot of them so they had to of been a decent gun in a pinch. Grease guns grew on me, that simple collapsible wire stock is iconic, its next on my list of ww2 subguns after the ppsh.

Same here, such a little lovely detail.

Good day fellow german

Then as a German, what the hell did he shout at 1:40? Sounded fukin legit and clean.

Davorne kammeraden oder so musik war zu laut

@@peterpan41 cant understand it music is too loud or he says only non sense

@@peterpan41 something with Kameraden idk but I think it's not even him saying it I think a line from a movie maybe

@@stacheoperator Shut up trumper.

@@stacheoperator i wonder what that stands for 😏

I will eventually get one of those shirts.

@@stacheoperator fucking seriously lmao

And arch as a McDonalds sign.

Biiiiiiiigggg ooof

@V3lthan I don’t believe so, I know he was in the 19th Engineers in 2 corps under Patton

He did tell me one of the Lugers had a date of 1918 on it. I cant even imagine how much that might be worth today. They were told there would be an inspection and to get rid of “whatever”, the next day he got on the troop ship home. They never looked at anything. $100 may not seem like much, but a privates pay was $21 a month.

This might be his Mp40

@@familyaccount3501 I don't know what they would have checked for either. It is well known that troops were allowed to take or send guns home, especially if they had capture papers. I have a crate in my garage that I found set out with a neighbors trash the says in giant white lettering: "Contents: One Jap Rifle". It was from a Marine mailing a rifle and bayonet home to Arkansas. (sadly, the items were no longer in the crate)

I loved it tho, or the are you hiding any whiteclaws underneath the floorboards?

you must *concentrate* better...

They had camps for that.

please mind your german audience and don't make them laugh about that stuff next time

@@michaelschlesener282 its funny dont be a negative nancy

Hätte nur noch ein Heil-Kreuter dazu gefehlt 😂😂😂

As someone with an anime pfp, you should be exiled to Antarctica.

@@toytacambery9427 k bro

A German weeb. Dangerous combination.

@@toytacambery9427 Stay mad for no reason

lel why are you feeling guilty you weren't even born back then. Just a joke you laughed at.

Tbf I've only just got the 'joke' 😂 And yes I chuckled.

I didn't even think twice until I realized "ghetto" meant more than today's modern nomenclature... Sometimes... I am not smart...

German humor is no laughing matter

More a sick joke

Piat and nambo pistol bothered trash .

I find the Sten a bit...challenging.

The Erma EMP the tube machine gun

@@Dover78 I think the sten is cool but it sucks that it isn’t really good and has some problems

@@commissarlugh1040 nambu for sure was garbage

all of them had cool stuff too except the Italians ew Only thing I’d like from them are probably uniforms, webbing and pistols

I miss Lemmy

Lemmy is an absolute legend

Yeah you don’t have to like the ideology or their beliefs to like their weaponry. I like com block weaponry because of how sexy they can look and how simple and highly effective they are but that doesn’t mean I support communism or any similar ideology

@@tlshortyshorty5810 true, however I think anyone can agree that the german Uniform's and Camo patterns were by far the most awesome/beautiful.

So successful he multiplied the number of Germanies by two!

Wtf is an eastern bloc accent?

@@thekraken1173 it’s usually what Americans call Eastern European’s

@@connorohoare7470 Eastern European accent doesn’t make any sense though. Albanian accent has nothing in common with Lithuanian accent for example.

@@thekraken1173 I didn’t say anything about accents for a start but Eastern European is what Western European people use. Which is a generalisation for usually former members of the ussr. So as a general rule of thumb anything east of Germany.

nerd

actually its not realy a dropping safety - more like an unintentionally discharge safety by klimbing in and out of Tanks. This gun was designed for vehicle crews espacially for tank. Sometimes it happened that the charging handle got caught on the vehicle and pulled back the bold far enough to loosen a round. The leather band was the first try to keep it safe and improove it later like they did with the notch - but you can still find MP40s without notch.

@@Gurkenpudding I thought the ones without the notches were MP38s, I've also seen it written as "MP38/40"

@@CrizzyEyes Kind of - MP40s are just updated MP38s. The forward notch should be standard by the times of MP41s/43s. You can easily spot an MP38 by the ripped ejection/Magweld part (MP40s are flat). If you are interested in these guns i suggest you a start at Forgotten Weappons video on this topic.

The Bolt closed safety is refered to as a transportsafety on the M45 Carl-Gustav (Swedish K). When the gun is unloaded, the safety is supposed to stop the bolt from bouncing around. Never to be used with a loaded magazine, it does also stop gunk/debris from getting in through the ejection port. Makes you wonder if the Swedes got the idea from the MP40. The M45 is just a mix of Sten, MP40, Suomi and PPS/PPSh.

The "Krummlauf" was meant to be a screw-on attachment, but they basically never went anywhere. A few have been made for trial purposes, some (with a reduced bend-angle of 30° instead of the extreme 90° that was also trialed) were even given out to army units in small numbers but they were rare back then and these days you need to visit museums to find one. Didn't help that the idea itself, while understandable, was painfully dumb in practical terms - design a barrel extension with an intentional "obstruction" and pray your gun can handle it. Service life also was rather limited, as they tended to blow out after a few bursts, plus there was no simple way to aim (there was an aiming device with mirrors, but it was fragile and cumbersome) meaning you likely didn't hit jack...

Они ограниченно применялись в конце войны, а автор сказал, что комплектующие 42 года

Because the "bent barrels" were along with the other last-ditch effort of the war for both Germany and Japan, they didn't have the resources to mass produce something like that.

Gun Jesus had a good book on the Sturmgewehr, that has an entire section on experimental devices for the STG44, including the Krummlauf. Worth the price.

I loved that hahaha

Mg-HAAAATTTEEEE

Art Deco? Actually that’s a pretty good description. It’s design does resemble that style rather well. Yeah I’m gonna use that description for it.

The Luty one might be Bauhaus then. Anything keltec makes surrealisme and the Mac 10 kubisme. Art and firearms design would make a great video. PS: Read the colors you mentioned, look at the german flag. (The modern one)

When half of his comments are filled with sympathizers it’s sad, they’re doing Tonys work for him

So a bit like katyusha

Es

My classmates sing it

This was a German army song long before the Nazis.

@@patrickb1303 Yep. They even sang it, during The Great War too.

He didn't ignore the proof marks, he bitched about 'em. 😁

Imagine a world where Brandon was Forgotten Weapons but the whole thing was comedy and Adult Jokes, and Ian was a super serious AK enthusiast and owned his own AK shop

@@Stevarooni he saw the marks and was like "proofmarks....ughhh, cuz Germany!"

I prefer it.

Erica has the spirit of Nazism, she was popular among the Wehrmacht soldiers

Me at 105k thinking the same

Balaclava: Grabs Walther

1:30 Balaclava really got into character

@@remy6978 at 2:12 he got into character even more

@@HimyNamesN I really laughed at this

*USSR ANTHEM STARTS*

Ikr Great guy und stylish beard

"Original Ghetto Blaster"

Yeah I figured that was coming, I just wasn't expecting it right off the bat. Made me choke on my food

Unlike Anne Frank…?

Polish remover....

It took way too long for the weight of that joke to hit me. Man that is dark. I love it lol

Damn I missed that, but that's hilarious lmao

You will like my mp 40 video as well , ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mnf0vWruaO0.html

Caught me off guard. Damn that's a good one 😂

Haha my mind went straight the same way lol

So dark, so funny.

@Robert Sears at least you’ll be in good company when we get there haha

I feel like that joke is going to go over a lot of people's heads. For those of us who understood it I'll see you in that special place we're gonna wind up.

Didn't the PPS43 have issues with magazines between guns due to loose manufacturing tolerances? Or was that just the PPSH41?

@@Phantom_Aspekt Yes stoppages due to load issues were common with all Russian smg's in WW2 especially the classic drum mags. Forgotten weapons mentioned it in several of his videos. Basically, for the Russian smg's carrying soldier, if you found a mag that worked with your gun you held on to it. Your "good" mag probably wouldn't be a "good" mag in the guy next to you gun.

My wish list has the MP40, the Thompson and the Suomi KP/-31.

@@Phantom_Aspekt PPS43 didnt, you are mentioning all variants of PPSH

but when it comes to design the MP40 totally outclasses the PPS43. Now the PPSh41 looks more awesome than the MP40 ngl, however she's a heavy girl with all that wood, has a fire rate that is waaaaay too high, and was built with with soviet tolerances rather than the german perfection.

“And I want my scalps”

The song is called Erika not Erick

@@entengrutze1717 Erick was a song especially made for the gay guy in the unit... Hops on Kettenrad and drives away

Garbage movie

It was actually a hair off tempo, unfortunately.

Why, are you not German?

I want to like this but…

@@luwaldo22 Understandable

@@stratigangames508 that shit was funny

They won't kill you faster than a Russian Sniper, I tell you that much

Yes and no. The issue is that afaik it uses stampings, and stamping is really expensive to set up. Furthermore open bolt guns are scary to the government. I guess it could be used if you wanted to arm every citizen Swiss-style but your country was very urban. But yes, open bolt designs are very simple and the go-to for the illegal "home made" SMG (Luty, Stens, etc.)

The irony is that law abiding citizens, who would never misuse one of these, are forbidden from having them. Meanwhile, criminals like drug cartels, drug smugglers, drug gangs, etc, who have no problem breaking the law and using weapons to kill the innocent and each other, can afford to buy all the automatic weapons they want.

@Monochromatik the Thompson saw fairly regular use by allied forces early on in the war. Commonwealth forces made fairly heavy use in Africa and early asia campaigns. Many Thompsons we're also sent to the USSR as lend lease it's just the Russians liked to cover up the west saved them Materially for a decent portion of the war. As far as U.S. service the Thompson saw use all the way through the war in various different variants and was even used in Korea and Vietnam by some units. To say the Thompson's use was rather limited is flat out false.

@@Krieg-ch8ot But the Thompson was rather expensive to make, hence why the M3 exists.

@@franciszeklatinik889 yeah absolutely I'm not disagreeing with that, the way he put it, it sounded like he thought the Thompson was rare when it very much so wasn't

I sadly can't buy cannadips because I'm not 21 but if I was you bet your ass I would be buying some CBD.

LETS GO!!

pure political stupidity. I sincerely hope Brandom isn't actually a mentally challenged trump supporter.

It is scary good isnt it? Can’t think of a better smg for ww2

how did he risk it

@@square7935 all the jokes 💀

See the video I did on mp 40 , you won’t be disappointed, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mnf0vWruaO0.html

oh no the troons are gonna tattle...

He talks to damn much stfu and shoot the gun

Underrated comment 🖐🏼

did the helmet and gun come with any cool gold nuggets or jewelry too

I hope a walther p38 came with the helmet and mp40

@@tlshortyshorty5810 No but it came with a picture of a weird looking factory with railways!

dont tell me you are 90 years old and ur name is Hanz

@@ArmorKingEmir 🤣🤣 no, not of German descent either. That was a good laugh though

@@ArmorKingEmir 🤣🤣🤣

@@ArmorKingEmir the name Hanz does not exist. People are either named Hans (which is the short version of the biblical name Johannes) Or they might be named Heinz.

@@Oberkommando wow you are so smart. you wanna feel smart, that why you wrote this right? here is some validation. from my heart

the big heavy bolt flying back and fourth really does make it a dream to shoot

I fired one in Vegas and yes it was an awesomely smooth weapon to use!

It kicks backwards more than upwards, still a dream

My local range has a room full of machine guns, one of which being an MP40. Haven’t rented any out yet, but I already know which one’s gonna be first.

he's just hiding his power level to maintain the youtube cash flow.

yep, true Bakelite is actually fairly brittle as well. I'v got a few items from ww2 that have it in it and they are not strong. that said I think the MP40's lower is a slightly stronger type of Bakelite and I would not be surprised if it had glass or some other reinforcement as it feels slightly different (have held a few and shot one).

@@MrSolLeks Yeah its a consistent myth that those mags are bakelite, I honestly dont know why its continiued for so long.

For those wanting the pronunciation: "Tsu-zahmen-shtelloong"

@@DerWaidmann_ as an American who has had a German friend and never properly learned much German, I read the word as it was pronounced without knowing.

@@enclavesoldierusa high five

I wish you guys won the war

@@nopenopenopenopenotnow take it lol danke mein freund

Thank you for your work, I too wish to buy old rifles to preserve and prevent them from getting bubba'ed

You mostly have to worry about them getting Bubba’ed when they are cheap. Given that they cost $1000+ nowadays, Bubba will look elsewhere for guns to sporterize. Most Krags are sporterized because they were quite cheap for some time, a lot of Mosin and SKS have been sporterized or modernized as well be cause they used to be cheap. While we do have the Carcanos left as cheap surplus, the ammo is quite expensive so we currently do not have any cheap milsurp guns for Bubba to molest.

@@MPdude237 I have a nice 1943 mosin that all original as far as I know. I honestly don't mind some of the "modernized" SKSs as long as it's done right.

I used to be a little pissy about the 86 MG ban built then I remembered all the awesome stuff made before 86

@@WhuDhat 86 mg ban made it so you can't buy a reproduction that is full auto so they are all really expensive.

Me: **eyes MG-34** _I'mma keep this, then..._

You have to concentrate.

Been there, done that ? :-)

@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 wouldn't you like to know fed boi

@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 *frightened dog noises*

@@redheadrambo by no mean a fed. Not everybody can afford a pre86. Heavy Metal über alles ! Thanks god Elon Musk is buying the AFT anytime soon.

@@TacticalTerry a good one ! :-) Should be selling dog sized bullet proof vests. Worth it.

Helps that it was a pre-war design and not a prototype rushed into service like most everything the Germans fielded after 1941...

Even simpler than a sten in terms of its trigger control group

@@ISwearMyNameIsJohn not quite the same build quality though.

NOPE it is not, remember the telescopic main spring xDDDDDDDDDD