@@Ananonymousguy-nk9oj they way other youtubers does it is set up a patreon and upload videos to there, making the video unrestricted, not requiring becoming a patreon supporter to watch.
Hey Ian, I have some info about the early prototypes and the trial in 1951 if you want me to share them with you. The trial scores, photos of the early prototypes and the competitor, the very beginning of the development process, etc.
In our country living some legenda that as a part of Czechoslovakia help they gave to Israel copy of drawings from samopal VZ26 with simmilar that tíme modern concept.. Did you heard about?.
So we've got the Uzi, the Mini-Uzi, and the Micro-Uzi... Where's the Uzi-C? Come on guys, you're falling behind. We need the SMG that works whichever direction you point it.
I'm old enough where I remember when we had to do everything through SCUzi ports. Never let anyone tell you the good old days were better, that stuff sucked.
So a military contractor makes a sub machine gun, a civilian contractor makes a semi auto compact version, and then military contractor takes THAT and turns it back into a full auto.
That part of the history was super interesting and cleared up a lot of confusion for me, nice to see the whole family covered at once for this sort of thing!
I can't wait for him to cover phased plasma rifles. Doesn't matter which range. It's also fascinating how the Micro Uzi was relatively successful while the smaller MAC smgs flopped, despite having basically the same concept.
@@johnmurcott1273 I was expecting him to say that IMI came up with a clever rate reducer, like the CZ Skorpion - but they didn't. Perhaps they just had more stable financing.
@@samsonsoturian6013 yeah, a cool thing I noticed in the IDF mod for Battlefield 2, is that the early maps set in 1967 have the UZI with the wooden stock, but into later maps like in 1973 they have the UZI with the metal folding stock
Covering them all together was actually really helpful when it came to which came in what order (both the guns themselves and open/closed bolt), thanks for this! Referring to a certain pair of other SMGs as the M10 and M11 (their actual names instead of just repeating colloquialisms forever) is very much appreciated too! :)
@@njones420in the US, full autos were banned in 1986. The ones that were registered as fully transferable can still be bought and sold, but even the cheapest least desirable machine guns start at about $10k today and can go up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
@@njones420machine guns were banned in the US in 1986. The ones that were registered as fully transferable can still be sold today, but the cheapest machine guns start at $10k, with some selling for 6 figures. A FN M249 sold for $588k last year.
0:50 My dad trained as a cold war conscript with the MP2 and he told me there was an order to unload the gun only when pointing at a preconstructed sand pit since they had the tendency to spontaneously discharge.
I know some people who served in Kosovo with old uzis and they all said they were prone to spontaneous discharges too, among other problems (jamming, loss of accuracy due to the mechanical issues, sometimes even falling apart). One of em saw someone die when he dropped his Uzi and it discharged into his head.
I would have enjoyed seeing them fired, but given the restrictions in doing that I'm happier knowing that I'll still see your reviews on the subject. Happy New Year!
My now passed gunsmith ( machinist first class. I do not recall the ship he served on, but he was a World War II veteran. I thank you for your service, rest in peace KV ) that being said in 2002 he passed away in 2004. In 2002 He offered me a in the box with all the accessories straight from Israel Uzi, I do not believe there was one word of English on the entire box, but it was the real deal for $1500 which was an insanely good price. He Had been the gunsmith for my father and done lots of restorations on early Browning auto five’s and he had done some work for me as well, but in my late 20s, I could not take the chance to own something like that because there was no paperwork with it and I did not ask where it came from or where it went. I got an opportunity to run a mag through it in his basement test range and it was quite fun. I miss that old guy.
I think there's a bit of an error at the start - the Shin Bet (a.k.a ISA - Israel Security Agency) did not participate in the Entebbe raid. I think Ian meant to say "Sayeret Matkal", which is indeed a special forces unit of the IDF's Intelligence Branch, and did participate there.
Shin Bet is basically the Israeli FBI, so internal security and intelligence, except that they are also responsible for counter-terrorism in Gaza and the West Bank. People often confuse it with Mossad, e.g. when blaming Mossad for October 7th, even though preventing it was in large part Shin Bet's responsibility.
When I was in the service in the Netherlands we had Uzis with wooden stocks that were full auto only. Much later as a member of a gun club I came across an Uzi that was semi-auto only. Closed bolt I think. So yeah, there's even more patterns that this.
I guess you were in the airforce or navy. I don't know how it was before the 80ties, but in airforce we had wooden stocks in Basic training and on the operational stations they had rigid metal stocks. In the army they had folding stocks.
@@bertnl530 Rigid metal stocks? Never even heard of those! Were they select fire? I was in the Marines (early eighties) and mostly used a FAL, but we also trained with Uzis. With a bit of trigger control, single shots were not hard.
Ian I Have read several books on the Uzi. 2 authors had pictures and a description of the differences between the Min Micro and Standard Uzi but NONE had as clear and complete description as yours on video. My compliments. -Grey Pilgrim
Many years ago I fired a full auto mini uzi at a Vegas SOF convention and found it perfect. Best I could get was a 5 round burst but it was very controllable and good hit probability.
I hate that people started this myth that you can't show people shooting guns on TH-cam, yes you can. There is nothing in the terms of service that says you can't, and there are channels that do nothing but that.
1. YT doesn't appear to demonitise on the basis of explicitly disclosed terms. Nor does it appear to demonitise consistently. 2. A creator has every right to establish a paywall if they believe that is the best business model for them. 3. An established channel with steady veiwership faces a different kind of risk than someone primarily hoping to grow their channel.
These videos are strictly educational. Children have the right to learn about guns. And I’m not paying for another service. Just put out a separate video on TH-cam and allow it to become age restricted.
Ian could easily have a TH-cam safe portion at the range, even if he didn't want to show full auto. Two some of them are select fire or semi auto only. Or even concluded the video with the post range review of the Uzi handling.
Ian, excellent video. The Uzi detailed video is one that I was very interested in. 🎉. Happy New Year from a lefty in the mountains of Prescott Arizona.
It was affordable and it was strong. I ve heared from people who took it with them under the shower to get rid of the sand and mud. I had one in BT, but I did not want to get busted with rust inside during inspection.
Uzis: The poodles of the SMG world. Standard: Working dog that's a bit fancy; gets the job done. Relaxed, but good energy. Mini: Compact and convenient when you don't have room for the full-sized model. A bit bouncier. Micro: Mostly a fancy toy, but can still bite the hell out of you. Hyperactive.
Moving from open bolt to closed bolt for the mini and micro seems like a brilliant decision. I'm a little surprised IMI didn't apply the change to the full-size model as well.
IIRC, it did not add much to the system operationally. That "MP5-like" first shot accuracy never materialized as expected. (Same thing has been seen in homebrew Mac closed bolt conversions done similarly.) Seems like the closed bolt conversion was done primarily (or at least initially) to make them easier to sell on the American civilian market.
25 years ago I took my girlfriend and her girlfriend to the range to shoot pistols. Low and behold, the offer to shoot a standard Uzi presented itself. The girls popped off a few rounds each. Guy says, go ahead and finish off the mag. I slow-fired the remaining rounds, shooting out the bullseye at 25 feet. Easy to sight and pleasant to shoot. Very cool gun.
Hey Ian, have you ever considered doing a storytime of the Wildey pistols? I know that you shot one once on video, but it would be cool to see the history of the classic Bronson cannon expanded!
I owned an Uzi Pistol many years ago. And have used the full size Uzi on many occasions. There are reasons not to like the Uzi, but I love shooting it far more than any other SMG. I love the MP5, but the Uzi just makes me smile when I just hold down the giggle switch. Just the rate of fire works with the movement of the bolt moving forward. The OG Rock N Roll. There may be better options for a service SMG, but they are just not as fun.
When I was in Israel in 1967, all the Uzis I saw were wooden stock. The one I remember the most clearly was on a bus across the lap of a somewhat dozy conscript with the muzzle towards me. I noticed that the idiot had the mag in the mag well but I couldn't see the position of the safety. My Hebrew was not the most competent but I managed in a very short time to convince him that he might well be responsible for killing half the passengers. Some days later there was a news report where exactly this happened. The Uzi is a classic weapon with a great history but, like the Sten, it definitely had safety downsides.
Ian can you confirm the existence of an Uzi "heavy bolt" experiment during the 80's? It supposedly featured tungsten inserts to increase bolt mass thereby slowing down rate of fire for these reduced size models.
My dad used to be our national Uzi shooting champion. Also he was a sharpshooter (not sniper!) in our countries MP. He was ordered to use it in anger once in a train hi-jacking. Very interesting to learn so much more about these guns.
In the late 80s, I had the pump action Uzi water pistol as well as the battery powered one. Very accurate water pistols, both 1 to 1 scale with the mini Uzi.
Ian, in 2007 we seized with bank robbers a Uzi standart - with CLOSED bolt and a shortened barrel... I believe I still have some pictures of this gun! I was the first and only closed bolt Uzi I ever saw here in Brazil... All others were open bolt.
Damn TH-cam! But then I've seen many machine gun videos by other uploaders. I don't understand. You'd get demonetized? I once owned an Action Arms full size Uzi and paid the NFA and cost to convert. Love at first sight, with the micro & mini but was after '86 and the price for a tranferable was way high. Very much more so now. You had recoil just dry firing the big guy. I wish I'd at least experienced the closed bolt of the other two. Sweet! Collect All Three!
A lot of people in the comments have no idea how badly channel push through recommendations and subscriptions is suppressed when shooting portions are added to videos, especially if it’s full auto fire and it shows.
an "app" +$15 a month for one channel when others have shooting channels on youtube anyway? sorry but no, even if i could use the app, not at that cost
7:18 Whether in the imperial or metric system, or in the Egyptian cubit, none of these barrel lengths has a round number - coincidence? I don't think so...
I remember back in the ‘80s when the UZI was so cool. They made their way into all kinds of television shows, I think, partly because after the assassination attempt on Reagan in front of a Washington DC hotel, a Secret Service agent was seen running around with an Uzi barking orders on live TV. They were kind of heavy and clunky guns, but apparently worked quite well in combat, leading to their popularity.
Yeah, just like how the MP5 gained it's popularity after the Iranian embassy siege in 1980 and then put in all sorts of media like movies, anime, art and video games Speaking of the UZI, it's strange how since October 7 every antisemite who's obsessed with anything Jewish, would start complaining about Israeli made guns or how the IDF used WW2 German equipment (ignoring the fact that many others used them too, like the Yugoslavians and North Vietnamese who also used Imperial Japanese weapons). Meanwhile nobody said anything after all these years about Israeli guns.
Full video cut available on the History of Weapons & War app:
forgottenweapons.vhx.tv/videos/uzi-family-4k
Pay wall? No thanks.
@@ForgottenWeapons You could upload the shooting part as a separate video in a secondary channel even if it gets age restricted
Nobody is going to join every little streaming service TH-camrs come out with. Y'all need to unionize and stand up to TH-cam. 🙄
@@Ananonymousguy-nk9oj they way other youtubers does it is set up a patreon and upload videos to there, making the video unrestricted, not requiring becoming a patreon supporter to watch.
Why a separate video? Did the rules change?
This is actually the first time that I'm genuinely annoyed for not seeing the shooting part on TH-cam
He could upload a firing video if he wanted, it would be age restricted but verified people could watch it
Yeah, TH-cam is such a retarted platfor these days.
I just watched it on playeur. It's all there and hearing Ian say "ratatat ratatat!" was the cherry on top. 🤣
@@Ananonymousguy-nk9oj Then he should do that IMO. Making a video about differences between Uzis without demonstrating them severely limits its value.
@@Drrolfski Understandably Ian doesn't want to mess with the TH-cam overlords.
Every 80s kid felt like a badass with his micro uzi squirt gun, candy cigarettes and dad's cobra shades.
I still have that squirt gun and I'm 52 years old! LOL
Hell yes
@@geemac7267this gun is also nicknamed the “genocide” for Israel famous hospitality for being so kind 😂
Never saw Cobra, did Stallone carry a micro uzi?
The candy cigarettes and Uzi squirt guns started long before the 1980s. It was Wayfarer sunglasses though
Come on, guys.
4.6 inches is a perfectly respectful size, no need to call it micro.
Most terrorists can only accommodate 4½ inches....
Perfectly sufficient for the task at hand.
😂
Lol
My wife says it's perfectly fine!!!
Hey Ian, I have some info about the early prototypes and the trial in 1951 if you want me to share them with you. The trial scores, photos of the early prototypes and the competitor, the very beginning of the development process, etc.
Yes, I would definitely be interested. Can you email me at admin@forgottenweapons.com?
Gosh it’s easy to forget the Uzi goes back that far. I think most people think of it as an 80’s gun because that’s when it really became “famous.”
@nicholsliwilson first prototype in July 1950
@@ForgottenWeapons sent!
In our country living some legenda that as a part of Czechoslovakia help they gave to Israel copy of drawings from samopal VZ26 with simmilar that tíme modern concept.. Did you heard about?.
“Da Ooozi nein millameetuh” -Some Cyborg
Nice
You know your weapons, pal
Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range?
@@Cookie-Dough-Dynamo Hey, just what you see, pal.
- You can´t do that
- Wrong.
So we've got the Uzi, the Mini-Uzi, and the Micro-Uzi...
Where's the Uzi-C? Come on guys, you're falling behind. We need the SMG that works whichever direction you point it.
Fires bullets both forward and backward. No recoil!
What about the Uzi, HDMI You can do 4K with that thing.....
I prefer the lightning Uzi
I'm old enough where I remember when we had to do everything through SCUzi ports. Never let anyone tell you the good old days were better, that stuff sucked.
They made that years ago, they call it the hand grenade.
Hollywood really made the Uzi a iconic firearm. Arnold asking for a Uzi 9mm in Terminator is burned into my memory
‘Only what you see pal’
Plus Chuck Norris used a pair of Micro Uzi's in shoulder harnesses in Invasion USA.
'Ideal for home defense.'
OOOZEEE NEIN MILLA MËTA
@@leroysanchino - Brilliant! That ranks alongside ‘GIT TU DA CHOPPAAA!’
When a Papa uzi and Momma Uzi love each other very much they make a Baby Uzi
does it make the uzi carbine a teenager uzi?
*Ian...pls pin this comment. 😀
Love 😂😂😂 Israel is anything but love, have you seen what they've bin doing to innocent familys
I really have no original thoughts.
So a military contractor makes a sub machine gun, a civilian contractor makes a semi auto compact version, and then military contractor takes THAT and turns it back into a full auto.
That part of the history was super interesting and cleared up a lot of confusion for me, nice to see the whole family covered at once for this sort of thing!
and that's totally legal as long as you dont show it in operation on youtube, that is a no no
I can't wait for him to cover phased plasma rifles. Doesn't matter which range. It's also fascinating how the Micro Uzi was relatively successful while the smaller MAC smgs flopped, despite having basically the same concept.
Better stock?
@@johnmurcott1273 I was expecting him to say that IMI came up with a clever rate reducer, like the CZ Skorpion - but they didn't. Perhaps they just had more stable financing.
@@AshleyPomeroy same tbh. But yeah the Mac guns were a real clusterfuck financially
He already did a rail gun
Brand recognition
I thought that all Uzis started out as the mini and got progressively bigger as you fed them more ammo.
I learned something new today.
Turns out it's like a fat guy starting to do cocaine. He starts to lose weight and gets angrier.
Haha!
Like Pokemon?
TH-cam logic: you can live stream firing full auto at people in a hyper realistic video game, but god forbid you shoot a real gun full auto at paper
Every fundamentalism goes into stupidity...
Some channels get away with it, some don't
@Moondog66602 well it isn't forbidden, you just can't get ad revenue from it
If I'm not mistaken there's a good number of videos on this channel that already feature that right? Just no more I guess?
I am wondering if youtube is partnering with the ATF.
Israeli Military also had Uzis with fixed wooden stocks.
I think the originals all had wooden stocks but they later started making folding/removeable stocks
@@samsonsoturian6013 yeah, a cool thing I noticed in the IDF mod for Battlefield 2, is that the early maps set in 1967 have the UZI with the wooden stock, but into later maps like in 1973 they have the UZI with the metal folding stock
So did the Belgians
@@SantorinTwo7 you dont buy guns in battlefield next question
Yes, back then the SMGs were still treated like Service rifles, like the PPSh41
We need a Macro Uzi that's a belt fed GPMG or something...
well technically that would be the base uzi
Missed opportunity by the Negev team.
No no, it would still need to be stick in from the bottom, but the stick would have a 100 round drum mag
(Kinda like the CBJ-MS but bigger)
Then we need a Mega Uzi
@@monsieurduquack5440 Kilo-Uzi in 7.62mm, Mega-Uzi in .50, Giga-Uzi in 30mm, Tera-Uzi in 155mm.
Minor addition:
MP2: Fixed wooden buttstock
MP2A1: Folding buttstock
Covering them all together was actually really helpful when it came to which came in what order (both the guns themselves and open/closed bolt), thanks for this! Referring to a certain pair of other SMGs as the M10 and M11 (their actual names instead of just repeating colloquialisms forever) is very much appreciated too! :)
A few authentic IMI full auto UZIs sold at Morphys Auction House in December 2024. The fullsize sold for $37.2k, the minis for $39.36k and $34.8k.
I have a full-auto original IMI mini …
admittedly it’s a deactivated one as I’m in the Uk (paid about £350)
@@njones420in the US, full autos were banned in 1986. The ones that were registered as fully transferable can still be bought and sold, but even the cheapest least desirable machine guns start at about $10k today and can go up into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
@@njones420machine guns were banned in the US in 1986. The ones that were registered as fully transferable can still be sold today, but the cheapest machine guns start at $10k, with some selling for 6 figures. A FN M249 sold for $588k last year.
That's a lot of money for a chunk of stamped steel.
@ £350 ?
Thanks!
0:50 My dad trained as a cold war conscript with the MP2 and he told me there was an order to unload the gun only when pointing at a preconstructed sand pit since they had the tendency to spontaneously discharge.
I know some people who served in Kosovo with old uzis and they all said they were prone to spontaneous discharges too, among other problems (jamming, loss of accuracy due to the mechanical issues, sometimes even falling apart).
One of em saw someone die when he dropped his Uzi and it discharged into his head.
Awesome seeing these compared side by side like this. Great video, Ian.
"The Uzi 9mm. You know your weapons buddy, any one of these is ideal for home defense..."
You can't do that. Wrong!
" Hey, just what you see pal."
"Phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range"
Literally just watched that movie yesterday lol!!!
Wrong
I would have enjoyed seeing them fired, but given the restrictions in doing that I'm happier knowing that I'll still see your reviews on the subject. Happy New Year!
Fun Facts: The prefix Micro is from Greek; the prefix mini as from Latin. They each mean the same thing.
Thanks!
My now passed gunsmith ( machinist first class. I do not recall the ship he served on, but he was a World War II veteran. I thank you for your service, rest in peace KV ) that being said in 2002 he passed away in 2004. In 2002 He offered me a in the box with all the accessories straight from Israel Uzi, I do not believe there was one word of English on the entire box, but it was the real deal for $1500 which was an insanely good price. He Had been the gunsmith for my father and done lots of restorations on early Browning auto five’s and he had done some work for me as well, but in my late 20s, I could not take the chance to own something like that because there was no paperwork with it and I did not ask where it came from or where it went. I got an opportunity to run a mag through it in his basement test range and it was quite fun. I miss that old guy.
I think there's a bit of an error at the start - the Shin Bet (a.k.a ISA - Israel Security Agency) did not participate in the Entebbe raid. I think Ian meant to say "Sayeret Matkal", which is indeed a special forces unit of the IDF's Intelligence Branch, and did participate there.
Shin Bet is basically the Israeli FBI, so internal security and intelligence, except that they are also responsible for counter-terrorism in Gaza and the West Bank. People often confuse it with Mossad, e.g. when blaming Mossad for October 7th, even though preventing it was in large part Shin Bet's responsibility.
Uzi... never to be forgotten. buuut much appreciate the walk down memory lane.
What a clever, logical way to convert to closed bolt!
0:48 in the reflection of the cabinet you can see a guy come in and join the Gun Jesus lecture
*sermon
This may well be the first time a Come to Jesus moment is stated as a TH-cam time stamp.
When I was in the service in the Netherlands we had Uzis with wooden stocks that were full auto only.
Much later as a member of a gun club I came across an Uzi that was semi-auto only. Closed bolt I think. So yeah, there's even more patterns that this.
I guess you were in the airforce or navy. I don't know how it was before the 80ties, but in airforce we had wooden stocks in Basic training and on the operational stations they had rigid metal stocks. In the army they had folding stocks.
@@bertnl530 Rigid metal stocks? Never even heard of those! Were they select fire?
I was in the Marines (early eighties) and mostly used a FAL, but we also trained with Uzis. With a bit of trigger control, single shots were not hard.
Misschien wist de klu niet dat ze inklapbaar waren😂
I shot a full auto one in texas. I loved it. The weight of the gun keeps the recoil easy and it was so nice to shoot
Uzis are just cool. Sure, a lot of that comes from their prominent place in media, but it's such an elegantly practical design.
Ian I Have read several books on the Uzi. 2 authors had pictures and a description of the differences between the Min Micro and Standard Uzi but NONE had as clear and complete description as yours on video. My compliments. -Grey Pilgrim
We should have a nano uzi by now
Physicists are building larger and larger colliders in search of the famed femto uzi
Apple is working on one in .25 ACP that also plays MP3's.
Many years ago I fired a full auto mini uzi at a Vegas SOF convention and found it perfect. Best I could get was a 5 round burst but it was very controllable and good hit probability.
I hate that people started this myth that you can't show people shooting guns on TH-cam, yes you can. There is nothing in the terms of service that says you can't, and there are channels that do nothing but that.
1. YT doesn't appear to demonitise on the basis of explicitly disclosed terms. Nor does it appear to demonitise consistently.
2. A creator has every right to establish a paywall if they believe that is the best business model for them.
3. An established channel with steady veiwership faces a different kind of risk than someone primarily hoping to grow their channel.
TH-cam restricts full auto firing heavily and tanks the video's reach. You are new to this?
This video is a certified banger, we all love you Ian
These videos are strictly educational. Children have the right to learn about guns. And I’m not paying for another service. Just put out a separate video on TH-cam and allow it to become age restricted.
Ian could easily have a TH-cam safe portion at the range, even if he didn't want to show full auto. Two some of them are select fire or semi auto only. Or even concluded the video with the post range review of the Uzi handling.
My uncle had a micro uzi in .45 acp back in the 90s. Totally sweet and totally impractical for anything but range fun. 😎 I wish I had that gun…
新年明けましておめでとうございます🍾
今年も刺激的な解説をたくさん配信して下さいね！日本から熱い応援を🇯🇵
熱い応援って英語に自動翻訳したらすごくおかしく聞こえますよ笑笑。
Ian, excellent video. The Uzi detailed video is one that I was very interested in.
🎉. Happy New Year from a lefty in the mountains of Prescott Arizona.
Ironic that the Germans of all people adopted an Israeli SMG barely 20 years after the end of WW2.
Bf 109
Tbf most of the nazis were in south america, the us or russia by this point
The first german KSK members were trained by Israely anti terror units. They are pretty close.
It was affordable and it was strong. I ve heared from people who took it with them under the shower to get rid of the sand and mud. I had one in BT, but I did not want to get busted with rust inside during inspection.
Well they both commited genocides, same coin, different sides.
Interesting to see that the bolt, striker, and trigger mechanism of the Micro is essentially a copy of the CZ Sa Vz 58.
The Micro Uzi just got back from swimming.
That water must have been cold...😅
I want to wish you a very Happy New Year and thank you for all your videos. Stay well.
Uzis: The poodles of the SMG world.
Standard: Working dog that's a bit fancy; gets the job done. Relaxed, but good energy.
Mini: Compact and convenient when you don't have room for the full-sized model. A bit bouncier.
Micro: Mostly a fancy toy, but can still bite the hell out of you. Hyperactive.
This is what I'm here for, the developmental history stuff.
Aw man! History of Weapons has only credit card payment.
I do not have a credit card, since i don't need one in Germany.
TH-cam:
Fatal workplace accidents ✅️
Shooting gun at static targets ❌️
I have always liked the full size Uzi , Always wanted one . Pity I never got one . Great video
Go get one.
@@timb7775 can`t a fixed income pard ...no extra cash to do it .
Moving from open bolt to closed bolt for the mini and micro seems like a brilliant decision. I'm a little surprised IMI didn't apply the change to the full-size model as well.
IIRC, it did not add much to the system operationally. That "MP5-like" first shot accuracy never materialized as expected. (Same thing has been seen in homebrew Mac closed bolt conversions done similarly.) Seems like the closed bolt conversion was done primarily (or at least initially) to make them easier to sell on the American civilian market.
Uzi, the 9mm MAC that works.
25 years ago I took my girlfriend and her girlfriend to the range to shoot pistols. Low and behold, the offer to shoot a standard Uzi presented itself. The girls popped off a few rounds each. Guy says, go ahead and finish off the mag. I slow-fired the remaining rounds, shooting out the bullseye at 25 feet. Easy to sight and pleasant to shoot. Very cool gun.
I've heard of wife's boyfriend but not Girlfriends girlfriend before
"The Super, the Lovely, and the Gorgeous. The Gorgeous, Peter, is of course the more expensive option".
Fry and laurie?
@largain Privatization of the Police Force 😊
Great gun, great vid. Thanks ian
Hey Ian, have you ever considered doing a storytime of the Wildey pistols? I know that you shot one once on video, but it would be cool to see the history of the classic Bronson cannon expanded!
Thanks for your work, Ian. It's a shame TH-cam makes it more difficult. I wish you and your loved ones a happy new year.
I remember seeing pics of old 50’s German army with Uzis and it was pretty sweet
we still had 2 in our Regiment when i was in the Bundeswehr in the late 90s, shot with it a couple of times, loved it....
@@jan3381 really ? That's awesome!
Uziel G. Originally Gotthard Glass German Jew
@@454FatJack very interesting! Uziel roughly translates to "Strength of God", which sounds like what the German name might mean!
@@454FatJack Makes sense
❤ Thank you for the movie and the information you provided. With regards Antonio
I wonder if he had to edit out the times he called them by the wrong names or if he managed to not get them mixed up even once
I’ve been aiming to get an Uzi and this just adds gas to the flames!
The UZI’s always intrigued me-
Same here-
Never been an Uzi fan, tbh but they are great guns.
I know it's not on here, but the modern Uzi Pro is incredibly fun to shoot.
I did never heard about that... 😮😮
@@pedrotome9119i think it's just micro use but with picatinni rails. Charging handle had to be moved to the side too
I owned an Uzi Pistol many years ago. And have used the full size Uzi on many occasions. There are reasons not to like the Uzi, but I love shooting it far more than any other SMG. I love the MP5, but the Uzi just makes me smile when I just hold down the giggle switch. Just the rate of fire works with the movement of the bolt moving forward. The OG Rock N Roll. There may be better options for a service SMG, but they are just not as fun.
I prefer the ugliest of the lot ,the OWEN .
I love how they get rapidly more insane and angry, the smaller you make them
So you dated the same ladies I did when I was a younger man?
I thought he was talking about Frenchmen!
When I was in Israel in 1967, all the Uzis I saw were wooden stock. The one I remember the most clearly was on a bus across the lap of a somewhat dozy conscript with the muzzle towards me. I noticed that the idiot had the mag in the mag well but I couldn't see the position of the safety. My Hebrew was not the most competent but I managed in a very short time to convince him that he might well be responsible for killing half the passengers. Some days later there was a news report where exactly this happened. The Uzi is a classic weapon with a great history but, like the Sten, it definitely had safety downsides.
Ian can you confirm the existence of an Uzi "heavy bolt" experiment during the 80's? It supposedly featured tungsten inserts to increase bolt mass thereby slowing down rate of fire for these reduced size models.
Cool presentation. Uzi in any of the size configuration are all great sub guns.
It was quite popular in 80s movies.
My first memory of one was the Reagan assassination attempt
@@josephknaak9034 my mini is stored in a brown Samsonite briefcase for that very reason :)
When I was a teenager I found out the uzi had smaller varieties and was in love with the weapon ever since.
Truly the peak of Cold War non-carbine smg's.
Growing up in the early 90s this was THE gun!
*The Uzi was so influential that any SMG/PDW that has the magazine in the grip is automatically an Uzi-clone to me.*
What about the SMGs like that which are older than the Uzi? Like the Sa-26 and the ZK-476, both of which the Uzi is heavily derived from?
Great video!
Uzi Life, Uzi Love ❤️
My dad used to be our national Uzi shooting champion. Also he was a sharpshooter (not sniper!) in our countries MP. He was ordered to use it in anger once in a train hi-jacking. Very interesting to learn so much more about these guns.
In the late 80s, I had the pump action Uzi water pistol as well as the battery powered one. Very accurate water pistols, both 1 to 1 scale with the mini Uzi.
I had a battery powered one too, but it was broken by the time I acquired it. My dad made a little barrel shroud for it out of PVC :)
My brother owned the standard Uzi several years ago. It was a lot of fun to shoot. I have a video of my 8 year old son shooting it.
All in favour of renaming the Micro to Fun Size?
With shrinkflation, there will maybe be an Uzi Nano that fires .25 ACP and is called Snack Sized, but costs the same as the original Uzi.
@@kentvesser9484 Pico Uzi: .22 LR @ 9001 rpm. Femto Uzi: .22 Short @ 40,000 rpm. Planck Uzi: 2mm Kolibri @ 32.34×10^45 rpm.
Ian, in 2007 we seized with bank robbers a Uzi standart - with CLOSED bolt and a shortened barrel...
I believe I still have some pictures of this gun! I was the first and only closed bolt Uzi I ever saw here in Brazil... All others were open bolt.
Miami Vice memories!😂😂
Great video. Always a pleasure, good sir.
Six different ads just to watch all the way through, and I don't even get to see everything.
This platform sucks.
adblock ftw
Patrons get all ad-free videos at every pledge level, FYI - and they get the full auto videos as well.
Another great video. Thanx, Ian!:)-John in Texas
why don`t they make a depleted uranium bolt to reduce rate of fire?
because, as it travels, it will create DU dust which is extremely toxic?
Wouldn't it be easier to make the bolt bigger?
@@toddheartsound5451 And incendiary...
I've never really cared for the aesthetic of the uzi, preferred the MAC, but a micro uzi would be a really good PDW so I'd definitely consider one
having fired all 3
mini uzi is best uzi
Awsome video!
The micro Uzi is what you get when you dry your Uzi in high.
Damn TH-cam! But then I've seen many machine gun videos by other uploaders. I don't understand. You'd get demonetized? I once owned an Action Arms full size Uzi and paid the NFA and cost to convert. Love at first sight, with the micro & mini but was after '86 and the price for a tranferable was way high. Very much more so now. You had recoil just dry firing the big guy. I wish I'd at least experienced the closed bolt of the other two. Sweet! Collect All Three!
A lot of people in the comments have no idea how badly channel push through recommendations and subscriptions is suppressed when shooting portions are added to videos, especially if it’s full auto fire and it shows.
Absolutely annoyed at youtube for not letting us see the shooting part , such a tempting comparison
an "app" +$15 a month for one channel when others have shooting channels on youtube anyway? sorry but no, even if i could use the app, not at that cost
It's $10/month and has 9 different channels.
it was my birthday when this was posted!
7:18 Whether in the imperial or metric system, or in the Egyptian cubit, none of these barrel lengths has a round number - coincidence? I don't think so...
I remember back in the ‘80s when the UZI was so cool. They made their way into all kinds of television shows, I think, partly because after the assassination attempt on Reagan in front of a Washington DC hotel, a Secret Service agent was seen running around with an Uzi barking orders on live TV.
They were kind of heavy and clunky guns, but apparently worked quite well in combat, leading to their popularity.
Yeah, just like how the MP5 gained it's popularity after the Iranian embassy siege in 1980 and then put in all sorts of media like movies, anime, art and video games
Speaking of the UZI, it's strange how since October 7 every antisemite who's obsessed with anything Jewish, would start complaining about Israeli made guns or how the IDF used WW2 German equipment (ignoring the fact that many others used them too, like the Yugoslavians and North Vietnamese who also used Imperial Japanese weapons). Meanwhile nobody said anything after all these years about Israeli guns.
Isn’t it kinda weird that Uzi sizes progressed the same way as USB?
Now we just need Uzi-C
@@KIWI_DUDE. With switchable ejection side.
@@whyjay9959 double stack single feed magazines, ejects out the front like an F2000
TH-cam is such a buzz kill not allowing you to show the range part of the video.
The guy in the window is so annoying.