South African here. These are super common to see in the hands of private security officers. I am not the most knowledgeable on the intricacies of the gun law here, just enough to have licensed my guns, but it is my understanding that these are easier to license as they technically fall under a pistol category and are therefore less restricted than a semi auto rifle. Essentially low level companies can purchase a ton of them, have a gun that is legally a pistol which handles like a rifle and so match most threats they would face. I think they look sexy in a sten gun sort of way, simple but extremely useful.
I owned an LDP in Rhodesia for a couple of years. The advertising said it was capable of firing 600 round a minute. I used it a lot on the range and never had any issues with it. Very nice size and it sat between the driver and passenger seat when travelling because there was always a threat of ambush even on the main roads. South Africa refused import when I immigrated there in 1980. I gave it to a friend who had been in the BSAP Special Branch and was then farming.
I have been asking for this video for a while now, so glad to see it. My grandmother had one of these during the bush war. It saved her and her 3 daughters lives and if it wasn't for one of these i would likely not have been born. You would be absolutely amazed by the stories she has to tell. I have been begging her to write book for years haha.
It was not the South Africans that called it a Rhuzi, it was the Rhodesian press. In fact there were a number of similar firearms manufactured in Rhodesia at the time and journalists lumped them all together as Rhuzis.
@@s.marcus3669 Hey there, I'm German and jewish, and there's something called "Schinui Schem" that allows us to change our names. That's kinda common in Germany, but I don't know how it works in the United states. I guess it depends on local laws if it's possible to change your name. In Germany it's very hard and expensive to change a name. You have to pay at least a couple thousand euros. Ah, and one last thing: Verstehst du denn noch Deutsch, oder haben deine Eltern dich direkt englisch erzogen, und die Deutsche Sprache ganz verworfen? 👋
manufacturing wise, this is a very clever design. Everything is a bent piece of sheet metal, a milled tube, or a milled piece of round stock. The lower is a piece of molded plastic. The barrel is about as simple as a barrel can be. I love all the work that went into making this easy to build.
So glad this channel has the support it has, really quality content and thoroughly investigated, giving one insight into not only how, but why the weapon was made. Epic 😍
My aunt had one and carried it when she went out at night with my uncle, the only doctor in his town willing to go out at night to see patients during the Rhodesian war....I did meet Alex du Plessis a few times in South Africa.
You have to admit, there's some interesting engineering takes in this to make it functional and to simply manufacture, specifically the bolt and feed ramp. That thing is neat as hell.
I do remember the Rhodesia version of the Kommando so great to see more info on this innovative firearm. Recall the demilled part kits advertised in Shotgun News (USA) in the late 80s or early 90s came with smoothbore barrels.
Really slick construction with the two-piece bolt and receiver-mounted feed ramp. And in addition to easing disassembly, the semi-captive recoil spring is there because the ejector rod is off-center on the plug, which obviously wouldn't work with a thread-in piece. I bet that if there was a full-auto version, any police, security or even military would've been very happy with them.
Found out minutes ago that the motorcycle gang chief in Mad Max Fury Road packed a stockless Kommando LDP. I first thought it was some kind of cut down Sten that had been augmented to look "post apocalyptic" but now know it's actually a very practical, real world firearm. The more you know 🌠
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I suppose it's not entirely necessary, but I feel like they missed a trick in using the latch for the stock to also lock the end cap for the receiver into place
I'd love to see this on the range, and hear you impressions on accuracy. Practical accuracy, because that's what things like this are all about. (Meaning semi-auto carbines, or subguns converted to semi-auto) Compared to a Pistol, this has a shoulder, and offhand contact point, so you can hold it steadier, and get a better sight picture. Also better site distance, though these crude sights probably don't let you really take advantage of that. You can't really adjust the zero on a hole drilled through a sheet metal bracket.
Lol you could have designated "burst magazines." Like load one mag with hot ammo, and then the burst mag has like 3 crap rounds, a good round, three crap rounds, a good round, etc.
Pine Cone guessing it’s mostly because Ian knows the tech and engineering and history and stays on topic (too many of the firearms shows get derailed into political posturing or talking about how manly it makes them feel or other nonsense).
In theory, the whole bolt assembly can be done on a lathe, all the vertical machine operations can be done using the cross slide and an angle bracket, where the cutting implement is held in the chuck. Those are simple enough to not miss the lack of a fully operational slide as in a vertical mill.
Early PDW! Nice! It seems really simple to maintain. Though the trigger and sear system seems like it could be simplified to make it more reliable and cheaper.
Very slick bolt design! It simplified production, thus lowering time and cost, and yet did nothing to functionality. Oh, and that rotating feed ramp? Awesome! 👌
I love that the designer used an "epoxy putty" to make the original. I've used putty epoxies in the past to make some really clever things but never a complete firearm receiver.
Some of it is probably reliability. Two parts that can move about (even a little) means a bit more wear than one part that does the same. That being said for cheaper guns it makes sense
seems like a sensible gun. I could also see this being useful with a small scope and a longer barrel, for light work against rodents and the like or for plinking cans and targets.
Great gun, from mechanical point of view better than UZI, very well thought out, very effective and easy to manufacture as well. I'm totally impressed!
Back in the 80s, I owned one of these in Canada. There was not that many of them, imported by OGT out of Metachewan Ontario. Sold it after a few yrs. The LDP was an interesting gun fore sure.
I have to say, that little retaining plate at the back of the receiver, is pretty smart. Makes disassembly much easier and you're not looking around for that cap piece. I wonder if it adds to the strength of the piece, with the locking pin, spring loaded nub, whatever you want to call it. I have to wonder how it shoots, that doesn't seem to be much travel. Well, it's enough.
Kommando in South African military were the reserve/countryside militia. Kommando being the Boer's republics typical Citizen army units. So it retained original meaning there, where in the rest of world , thank to their daring feats, became an alternate name for Incursors/Assault troops.
That second sear at 10:41 looks like the second sears from Walther MPL and Star Z70, but, since the gun has no full auto, there is no need to create more rules, just a kind of "half cock" for open bolt. Something most military weapons don't have. Kudos for South Africans.
Totally love it! I wouldn't have any problem in being seen carring this ''lady's SMG''...And i really like to see a video with Ian shooting one of these...
One of the first guns I learned to shoot/strip/clean. We had a Rhodesian version with sideways folding stock which also could be used as a front grip (could be vertical or flat.) I never heard the term LDP until now, we called ours the GM16. We would go to the range on weekends and afterwards My Dad, brother and myself would sit in the lounge on newspaper strip and clean the guns. My dad would do an MAG or Bren, my Brother (8 years old) would do the FN Fal and the GM16 would be mine to do. Happy times! I was 5 years old when the war stopped and the gun was handed in to the police.
I could imagine how well it panned out going to the PM's office with your groundbreaking new SMG design. Did he get excited and run up, waiving it over his head screaming "Look what I have! Look what I have!"
@@ForgottenWeapons Wow! wonderful. A east german Para told me how awesome it is. I like to dream of: 5.7x28 in a weapon like the RAK, semiaouto wen folded and if the souldestock is set a high cadence like the H&K VP 70m. But Yeah silly dream.
@@anthonys8947 The crew that she tried to make the deal with regarding the gas tanker, where she asked Max his name and he claimed it didn't matter. She decided to call him "Fool," and the gunman with the Kommando started firing on them from a higher vantage point.
I imagine one of the problems if us sales stemmed from the ban on open bolt guns (though that may have come later), and the ease in which it could be converted to full auto. You'd literally grind down the stiking face of the lever that presses down the disconnecter so that it depresses it enough to cycle but not enough to disconnect the trigger from the sear and its full auto. Anyone with a grinder (or a file for that matter), and a bit of time could do it.
I had one in England in the 80s It was on my Firearm certificate as a 9mm Carbine. I used it a few times on the indoor range at my club but they then decided that as it was a pistol range I couldn't use it there. So I took it to the outdoor Rifle range which had a 30m section that the army used for SMG practice thinking that would be fine, Wrong again! "You can't shoot that here it's not a rifle!" - The only gun I ever owned that I had to take back to the gunshop having fired less than 100 rounds!
“A man would typically run around the farm with a rifle”
Oh like a lever action
“Like a FAL”
Oh
Tough crowd, especially with poachers and what not.
@@WingMaster562 I think I know the "what-not" to which you refer......
@@frickpoo6644 How is it a problem to own guns?
Real man like real gun you know what I’m sayin
@@WingMaster562 Especially the what not.
Someone needs to make a forgotten weapons playlist for "guns that balance on their own magazine"
If someone makes this please send me a link
@@rangernolen8291 th-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/w-d-xo.html
@@GunsNGames1 damn you kid, you got me
@@GunsNGames1 ive known that url for a long time, yaint trickin me
Kel tec rfb, with no mag
South African here. These are super common to see in the hands of private security officers. I am not the most knowledgeable on the intricacies of the gun law here, just enough to have licensed my guns, but it is my understanding that these are easier to license as they technically fall under a pistol category and are therefore less restricted than a semi auto rifle. Essentially low level companies can purchase a ton of them, have a gun that is legally a pistol which handles like a rifle and so match most threats they would face. I think they look sexy in a sten gun sort of way, simple but extremely useful.
I'd rather have an R5. BTW I love SA...
@@gingerfitzgeraldtv2896 There are around 7 million whites if I recall correctly. So basically a sliver of the population here. I'm English and Greek.
@@gingerfitzgeraldtv2896 what's wrong with you boy...
Thanks for the info and that Christiano is a racist POS.
He is, but he isnt completly wrong, sa is starting to get more and more racist against whites...
I still don't understand how you don't sell branded pens labeled as "universal gun disassembly tool"
BS Kustomz I’d buy em.
I’d buy them 😂 I have too use pens all day at work 🤣
Me: Looks like a strange but interesting gun
Ian: *says a french sounding name*
Me: That makes sense.
Lots of Belgiums settled South Africa.
Afrikaners are descended in part from French Huegenots.
@@johnstacy7902 "Belgiums"
Back in the '80s in Johannesburg my high school maths teacher was a Mrs du Plessis which naturally, behind her back, evolved into Mrs Two-plus-three.
Ian is ENGLISH!
I owned an LDP in Rhodesia for a couple of years. The advertising said it was capable of firing 600 round a minute. I used it a lot on the range and never had any issues with it. Very nice size and it sat between the driver and passenger seat when travelling because there was always a threat of ambush even on the main roads. South Africa refused import when I immigrated there in 1980. I gave it to a friend who had been in the BSAP Special Branch and was then farming.
The two bandits who were constantly playing cards in the movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy" were armed with this weapon.😊
Excellent simplistic design. Easy to manufacture.
You can just imagine some South African guy buying one of these as a cheap, compact, second gun for the wife and kids.
Except we are only allowed 1 gun for defence. Lame.
Welcome to africa. The Balkans of of the world instead of just Europe.
@@codeguise Better than a knife, a machete and a slingshot.
@@codeguise What, like per domicile? Build a shed for your child/armed guard.
@@hoagielamp6543 we need to apply for a liscence for each firearm, and each person my only own one for self defense
Looks like an M3 "Grease Gun" had a baby with an Uzi...
Looks more like Czech Sa vz. 23 to me.
More like the Tech 9 (or KG-9 or whatever) than the Grease Gun.
I saw it and instantly thought it was a pem63 knock off.
Lol my thought exactly on seeing it a m3 and a uzi had a drunk one night stand 😂
To me it looks like a beretta m12s at least the top half anyway
That little hook disconnector is a dremel tool cut away from being full auto.
Which is why the ATF got the red ass for open bolt guns in the 80s.
All gun laws are unconstitutional. They should all be thrown out.
i can imagine that was the whole idea, u get the gun and then ur a dremel away from an uzi
I have been asking for this video for a while now, so glad to see it. My grandmother had one of these during the bush war. It saved her and her 3 daughters lives and if it wasn't for one of these i would likely not have been born. You would be absolutely amazed by the stories she has to tell. I have been begging her to write book for years haha.
That feed ramp is genius. Somebody put a lot of thought into making it simple to manufacture. [takes notes]
Looks like it's a (very heavy) stamping. Idk if something like this would fit in the Grease Gun, but if so it would have been a celebrated innovation.
Great weapon.I used to carry one of these in my trips throughout Rhodesia doing service calls.Very managable weapon while driving and initial shots...
Balashnikov and Rhuzi, the South Africans sure know how to pick a good name.
Wasn't Balashnikov an Isreali?
@@jackrush8752 Oops, you're right. l was thinking about the Vektor R4, but Balashnikov designed the Galil instead.
@@kurtbergh didn't Balishnakov change his name to Galilee or something like that when he moved to Israel ?
It was not the South Africans that called it a Rhuzi, it was the Rhodesian press. In fact there were a number of similar firearms manufactured in Rhodesia at the time and journalists lumped them all together as Rhuzis.
@@s.marcus3669 Hey there, I'm German and jewish, and there's something called "Schinui Schem" that allows us to change our names. That's kinda common in Germany, but I don't know how it works in the United states. I guess it depends on local laws if it's possible to change your name. In Germany it's very hard and expensive to change a name. You have to pay at least a couple thousand euros. Ah, and one last thing: Verstehst du denn noch Deutsch, oder haben deine Eltern dich direkt englisch erzogen, und die Deutsche Sprache ganz verworfen? 👋
"Tony Stark built this in a CAVE!" more or less.
FacelessDeviant ”WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!”
FacelessDeviant F for Iron man
manufacturing wise, this is a very clever design. Everything is a bent piece of sheet metal, a milled tube, or a milled piece of round stock. The lower is a piece of molded plastic. The barrel is about as simple as a barrel can be. I love all the work that went into making this easy to build.
So glad this channel has the support it has, really quality content and thoroughly investigated, giving one insight into not only how, but why the weapon was made. Epic 😍
South African guns are legit the most interesting by far!
Israel: takes European guns and makes them better
SA: takes Israeli guns and makes them better
@@AntonAdelson Basically 😂 But we do have our own interesting designs
My aunt had one and carried it when she went out at night with my uncle, the only doctor in his town willing to go out at night to see patients during the Rhodesian war....I did meet Alex du Plessis a few times in South Africa.
You have to admit, there's some interesting engineering takes in this to make it functional and to simply manufacture, specifically the bolt and feed ramp. That thing is neat as hell.
I do remember the Rhodesia version of the Kommando so great to see more info on this innovative firearm. Recall the demilled part kits advertised in Shotgun News (USA) in the late 80s or early 90s came with smoothbore barrels.
As a South African I got a little giggle out of the attempt at pronouncing Du Plessis like its French origin
I know right😂😂
Care to try to put the local pronouncing into text form?
@@SgtKOnyx Really similar, just without the French twang. "Doo Plissee" I guess but it's really just the difference in accent.
@@SgtKOnyx forvo.com/word/bismarck_du_plessis/
I didn't think it was that bad
Really slick construction with the two-piece bolt and receiver-mounted feed ramp. And in addition to easing disassembly, the semi-captive recoil spring is there because the ejector rod is off-center on the plug, which obviously wouldn't work with a thread-in piece. I bet that if there was a full-auto version, any police, security or even military would've been very happy with them.
Agreed
I honestly would buy this! It looks awesome!
Found out minutes ago that the motorcycle gang chief in Mad Max Fury Road packed a stockless Kommando LDP. I first thought it was some kind of cut down Sten that had been augmented to look "post apocalyptic" but now know it's actually a very practical, real world firearm. The more you know 🌠
FYI: Alex DuPlessis worked for Wilson Combat in the mid-to-late 2000s, at the time when the company manufactured his own ADP pistol.
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Reminiscent of the Czech vz 26.
It's actually direct copy of Sa vz. 23, the 9mm predecessor to vz. 26 with some minor (mainly ergonomic and visual) modifications.
Reminiscent is an understatement.
Was looking if someone noticed that too
that was the very first thing i thot
Teh Check lordz hath grinned!
I suppose it's not entirely necessary, but I feel like they missed a trick in using the latch for the stock to also lock the end cap for the receiver into place
Yeah I fully expected that piece to be a detent for the end cap.
Hey, you pronounced my surname pretty well! +respek!
+
I am also a Du Plessis and I totally agree with you.
I subscribed because you can pronounce du plesis correctly,showing you done extensive research
I'd love to see this on the range, and hear you impressions on accuracy. Practical accuracy, because that's what things like this are all about. (Meaning semi-auto carbines, or subguns converted to semi-auto) Compared to a Pistol, this has a shoulder, and offhand contact point, so you can hold it steadier, and get a better sight picture. Also better site distance, though these crude sights probably don't let you really take advantage of that. You can't really adjust the zero on a hole drilled through a sheet metal bracket.
Also fires from open bolt.
Sure u can just bend the piece of metal til its on target😂😂
"Unintentional" two and three round burst. Right.
Perhaps loosely controlled by buying some shiddy ammo?
Lol you could have designated "burst magazines." Like load one mag with hot ammo, and then the burst mag has like 3 crap rounds, a good round, three crap rounds, a good round, etc.
I guess whoever receiving the leads won't mind
HOLY MOLY! Forgotten Weapons is almost to 1 MILLION SUBS!!!
Pine Cone guessing it’s mostly because Ian knows the tech and engineering and history and stays on topic (too many of the firearms shows get derailed into political posturing or talking about how manly it makes them feel or other nonsense).
Ian is a gentleman, no doubt.@@Justanotherconsumer
In theory, the whole bolt assembly can be done on a lathe, all the vertical machine operations can be done using the cross slide and an angle bracket, where the cutting implement is held in the chuck. Those are simple enough to not miss the lack of a fully operational slide as in a vertical mill.
It looks like a caulk gun from Hell. I love it.
Early PDW! Nice! It seems really simple to maintain. Though the trigger and sear system seems like it could be simplified to make it more reliable and cheaper.
Thank you ,Ian .
Yeah, we have a return of the universal gun disassembly tool!
Very slick bolt design! It simplified production, thus lowering time and cost, and yet did nothing to functionality. Oh, and that rotating feed ramp? Awesome! 👌
This 2-piece bolt design is absolutely ingenious... and so is its ejector... and so is its feed ramp...
How is it no one thought of it before?
The same sort of ejector was already in use with the Ingram M-10, also a telescoping bolt design.
I love these attempts at really 'simple' guns. There is a real elegance to them ....
*TIGER* *MAFIA*
D E A D L Y K O M M A N D O
NON STOP DEADLY ACTIONS
GWA GWA GWA GWA GWA GWA GWA GWA
Bartosz Szulc SUPA KICKA
D I N O S A U R S
Happy to see Universal disassembly tool comes back again
Lol just imagine some lady carrying this around
"THATS MY PURSE, I DON'T KNOW YOU"
BRTBRTBRTBRTBRTBRTBRT
Looks like a child between an Uzi and a Sten
Looks like a blend of Cz26 and Uzi. Seeems very simple and incredibly easy to manufacture.
"Aimed more at women then at men".
Phrasing, dude! ;)
Looks like you'll hit 1,000,000 subscribers by the end of the year. Congrats good man.
I love that the designer used an "epoxy putty" to make the original.
I've used putty epoxies in the past to make some really clever things but never a complete firearm receiver.
I'm surprised we don't see more complex machined parts broken down into multiple, simpler to machine parts, like that bolt.
Some of it is probably reliability. Two parts that can move about (even a little) means a bit more wear than one part that does the same. That being said for cheaper guns it makes sense
I have a parts kit for one of those. The barrel is a smooth bore. It's the one with the sheet metal stock catch. Had it for years.
They are supposed to be rifled but to important the kits they had to do away with that. Was a real shame
One fun little PDW to learn on.
Sad day when my father had returned with his welded up bolt for deactivation.
Best line ever " universal disassembly tool"
It looks a bit like someone put a glue-gun on a pistol body and added a few parts.
My first thought was "oh look a baby m3"
Maxime Vincent More so a grease gun.
We made several caulk gun "guns" when we were kids playing army. One of them was supposed to be an Uzi but actually looked a lot like this thing!!
@@orangelion03 I've shot one, they work
Ha the gun for ladies comes with a purse...
@@gehtdianschasau8372 i think Lara only used the M1911, Desert Eagle, Browning HP and my favourite one the h&k usp 9mm match
seems like a sensible gun.
I could also see this being useful with a small scope and a longer barrel, for light work against rodents and the like or for plinking cans and targets.
It actually saved.lives in Rhodesia. So not a plunked but a legitimate weapon that was respected. Not everything can be an AR
Great gun, from mechanical point of view better than UZI, very well thought out, very effective and easy to manufacture as well. I'm totally impressed!
that bolt design is a great simplification
a very well thought and simple carbine
I love the fact most of the south african guns you find are basically just pipes that someone stuck some parts on
Back in the 80s, I owned one of these in Canada. There was not that many of them, imported by OGT out of Metachewan Ontario. Sold it after a few yrs. The LDP was an interesting gun fore sure.
This gun was in Mad Max: Fury Road. Was used by the Rock Rider leader.
The lighting looks good.
Stylish purse with an even more stylish gun on the inside!
I have to say, that little retaining plate at the back of the receiver, is pretty smart. Makes disassembly much easier and you're not looking around for that cap piece.
I wonder if it adds to the strength of the piece, with the locking pin, spring loaded nub, whatever you want to call it. I have to wonder how it shoots, that doesn't seem to be much travel. Well, it's enough.
If an uzi and a stengun had a child.
Kommando in South African military were the reserve/countryside militia.
Kommando being the Boer's republics typical Citizen army units. So it retained original meaning there, where in the rest of world , thank to their daring feats, became an alternate name for Incursors/Assault troops.
It's like the sten submachine gun f*cked an uzi and this is the result.
First video of the morning and I genuinely just said to myself "Good Morning Ian!"
I like the look. I want one
Cool! Fascinating design.
That second sear at 10:41 looks like the second sears from Walther MPL and Star Z70, but, since the gun has no full auto, there is no need to create more rules, just a kind of "half cock" for open bolt. Something most military weapons don't have. Kudos for South Africans.
That ejector is actually very clever
Dude, 10/10 for that Afrkaans surname pronunciation!
Totally love it! I wouldn't have any problem in being seen carring this ''lady's SMG''...And i really like to see a video with Ian shooting one of these...
South Africa : "Hey Czech Rep. can we copy your VZ.24?"
Czech Rep : "Yes, but change it a bit so it isn't too obvious."
South Africa :
Sanctions did it. We where not allowed to get foreign guns so we took what we had and made similar stuff or copied the design and improved on it.
this gun was in the move, the gods must be crazy.
I love these funky South African and Rhodesian guns from the 70's and 80's.
One of the first guns I learned to shoot/strip/clean. We had a Rhodesian version with sideways folding stock which also could be used as a front grip (could be vertical or flat.) I never heard the term LDP until now, we called ours the GM16. We would go to the range on weekends and afterwards My Dad, brother and myself would sit in the lounge on newspaper strip and clean the guns. My dad would do an MAG or Bren, my Brother (8 years old) would do the FN Fal and the GM16 would be mine to do. Happy times! I was 5 years old when the war stopped and the gun was handed in to the police.
The GM16 was a different gun to the LDP/Kommando. The GM was a copy of the Czech Vz.23, it was also made in SA as the Sanna 77.
@@denzilvenske6315 that may be so, but all the parts inside look the same to me! No doubt there was much "sharing of ideas" back then... :)
Fun fact: Rhuzi sounds exactly like "Ruzie" which means fight/conflict/argument in South Afrikaans and dutch
South Afrikaans?
I like this, was really surprised
It looks like kel tek got ahold of the sten blueprint and made another $189 abomination 😂😂😂
Great gun, I love the design
There's a bottle opener on the South African carbine, why no cork screw on the "Ladies" gun? (Marketing opportunity missed!)
cptreech cause our ladies drink beer
@@mariusoneill8102 - or that stuff that's beer mixed with something else?
I know about the bottle opener on the Israeli Galil but can't remember anything about one on a South African rifle. Any details?
Looks like a kid drew a tech 9 from memory and then someone built this to match.
I could imagine how well it panned out going to the PM's office with your groundbreaking new SMG design. Did he get excited and run up, waiving it over his head screaming "Look what I have! Look what I have!"
No need to worry about special ordering or scrounging a replacement part, just take it down to the neighborhood machine shop and you got that part.
Alex du plessis also made a very nice 9mm in the 90s. Amazing little weapon
"It needs a bit of encouragement." *pulls out a mallet* Yeah, that's a bit of encouragement.
Is there any chance to see the: PM-63 RAK?
Yes, it's filmed and coming.
@@ForgottenWeapons sweet! Got to fire it twice myself. Shooting video too, maybe?
Yes, I did. :)
@@ForgottenWeapons Wow! wonderful. A east german Para told me how awesome it is.
I like to dream of: 5.7x28 in a weapon like the RAK, semiaouto wen folded and if the souldestock is set a high cadence like the H&K VP 70m. But Yeah silly dream.
@@bleh8789 "Got to fire it twice myself." How many of your front teeth are remaining?
I think that it looks beautiful.
What an interesting firearm. Great video.
As seen in mad max fury road
Fun factoid, the Kommando was seen in Mad Max: Fury Road, used by the mountain biker gang member that spoke with Furiosa.
I don't remember a gang member riding a mountain bike.
@@anthonys8947 The crew that she tried to make the deal with regarding the gas tanker, where she asked Max his name and he claimed it didn't matter. She decided to call him "Fool," and the gunman with the Kommando started firing on them from a higher vantage point.
I imagine one of the problems if us sales stemmed from the ban on open bolt guns (though that may have come later), and the ease in which it could be converted to full auto. You'd literally grind down the stiking face of the lever that presses down the disconnecter so that it depresses it enough to cycle but not enough to disconnect the trigger from the sear and its full auto. Anyone with a grinder (or a file for that matter), and a bit of time could do it.
I had one in England in the 80s It was on my Firearm certificate as a 9mm Carbine. I used it a few times on the indoor range at my club but they then decided that as it was a pistol range I couldn't use it there. So I took it to the outdoor Rifle range which had a 30m section that the army used for SMG practice thinking that would be fine, Wrong again! "You can't shoot that here it's not a rifle!" - The only gun I ever owned that I had to take back to the gunshop having fired less than 100 rounds!
This looks very cool. I'd like to see the barrel lengthened by a few inches, but otherwise, I'd enjoy one of these.
LDP made this gun with the K.I.S.S method. I like the engineering that went into this Firearm. Very interesting.