Re: Interarms Tec 9
radar_ralf said:
Mac 10/11,
In real life, these small guns are nearly uncontrollable and have little use outside of special escort duty. Some of them fire from an open bolt, which is a very interesting thing to experience. Having said all that, if you slow down the cyclic rate and add a suppressor, it might be fun to shoot these unusual guns.
Some of you may remember when Hinkley tried to assisinate President Reagan.
What did the secret service have?
A full auto, open bolt uzi in a briefcase, which you can see both in the picture. The secret service agent brandishing the gun, and the briefcase laying in the street near the limo.
With that said, there are many submachineguns that were designed for full auto in an open bolt. Spanning the ages all the way back into the pre-WW2 era with the Thompsons and even the German MP40, Finnish Suomi M31, and a host of others, until the modern day in the U.S. when the ATF said no more open bolt semi's because they were too easy to convert to full auto by mechanically making the firing pin protrude through the bolt so they would strike the firing pin when it chambered a bullet, and thus creating full auto.
As for the M10's and M11's and M12's (MAC's), they can be very fun. I have an old M10A1 with a Lage 9mm slowfire upper reciever with ~750 rpm that is very accurate and is a pleasure to shoot, and I also have a Practical Solutions 22LR conversion kit that does well more than 1000 rpm of 22 goodness for when I want an economical bullet hose.
As for uncontrollable, I don't particularly care for the OEM upper because there is no front grip and your fingers can get very close to the muzzle by design, which again, I don't particularly care for, but with the new Lage upper is a game changer, and could be a lot "more" than just an escort/tank/aircraft crew gun.
Whether true or not, I have heard that the Mossad used the uzi AND the mac during the Entebbe Operation back in the 70's due how quiet they were.
Anyway, I like mine.