Frank Iannamico

Update I modified the channel on the pin so it protrudes out the back a little further, the gun ran fine today. No more light primer hits.

In the first picture, it looks like a TSMG hard case in the back of the vehicle near the rear window.

I wrote that article in 2018, still working fine, there is not much gassing, nothing like suppressed 5.56, no battering to speak of.

Article on suppressing the Reising M50 http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=4066

Hard to control? Not really

That is correct, but what happened was trigger frames got mismatched with the receivers, and while secured in the rack, the wrong serial numbers were recorded. So around 1943-44 or so they were ordered to stop numbering M1-M1A1 trigger frames, there is more detailed info in American Thunder 3. That is a pretty low serial number, the lowest I had ever seen recorded was by Roger Cox, as I (vaguely) recall was #153

There are/were Sten aftermarket magazines sold by KeepShooting.com, I believe they were made in Taiwan and they work VERY, VERY well, well-made and the feed lips do not distort when fully loaded. I suppose the magazines did not sell well because of the abundance of original magazines. I have seven of them, I wish I had bought more. I have a friend who has been looking for them for years, with no luck. They have a shiny black finish. Link to the aftermarket Sten magazine article http://archive.smallarmsreview.com/display.article.cfm?idarticles=3018 Link to magazine tool article https://smallarmsreview.com/sten-magazines-a-love-hate-relationship/ If the links don't work just go to the Small Arms Review website and search Sten, its now free

Has anyone successfully modified a Keystone titanium firing pin into an inertia pin? I often get several light-firing pin hits that won't fire the round. My thoughts are that the titanium pins are too light in weight to function as an inertia firing pin? http://www.machinegunboards.com/forums/ind...?showtopic=8854

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Those pictures are a mere fraction of Babty's inventory, there are a lot more guns than in the photos, and they also had helmets, uniforms, military radios, swords rubber prop-guns, Knights armor, etc. We also visited a restored WWII airfield in the north of England, it was closed, but Dan got us in, one of the aircraft was a C-47 used in HBOs Band of Brothers Series. At the time we were at Babty the place was being remodeled there were workers and painters there, so everything upstairs was in disarray.

I went to England with Dan Shea, who knows everyone there. On that trip in 2012, several people went along, Dan, Phil Dater, Dolf, and Robert Segel. It was a two-week trip, Dan was able to get us in the National Firearms Collection (former Pattern room) The British Small Arms School gun room, Warminster, another Army facility in Shrivenham (I don't recall the name) Babty, A section 5 dealers Greg Felton, and Dave Thomas' and the War and Peace show, on the weekend we went to the War Museum in London. It was great all I had to do was show up in the hotel lobby in the morning and get in the van. The attached images are all from Babty

Good catch, in addition to no Buttstock, the gun has the VERY early L rear sight. When I visited Babty's movie rentals in England the owner showed me a rack of Grease Guns and said that ONE of them was used by Lee Marvin in the movie, BUT they never documented which one. He also said Lee Marvin wanted to use an MP40 for that part, but I guess he was "shot down" in that request. Note that the 3rd and 7th M3s on the top shelf appear to have L rear sights. The movie was filmed in the UK, based at the, long-gone, MGM Studios in Borehamwood, using locations in Hertfordshire.

EVERYONE gets old (well the lucky ones get old) the only way to stay young is to die young.

I'm glad you got some resolution, in my experience dealing with lost, damaged shipments, you must be persistent. They never pay on the first attempt hoping you will give up. I wonder WHAT happened to the parts kit? Pretty big box to go missing. The missing signature is a mystery. Once I had a registered mail shipment that was lost, the PO found it locked in their cage, apparently they forgot about it.

You have to use PDF Pro The free version won't work, it does as described, it only fills out the first page, the others will be blank.