7 Most Influential Guns Of All Time!

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[@travischapin886]

M-1 Carbine's DID see front line service, I knew and know WWII Vet's that carried them as a front line weapon. It's was NOT meant to replace the M-1911A1, it was meant to supplement it.

[@TerryKeever]

Yeah, my father started in AAA then moved to a squad leader protecting forward artillery spotters. As a youngster, I saw one in a movie and asked if he carried one. I don't know which units carried them, but he said lots of front line officers carried them and some higher ranking NCOs.

[@carlpaladino427]

Maybe the title should have been the most influential of WW2

[@OldManMontgomery]

Great minds think alike. I was going to say this.

[@peterruiz6117]

I have a Springfield P-35 "Hi Power" clone on the way to a gunshop for my possesion. A friend of mine went from 'terrible shooter', to 'exellent shooter' with a Browning "Hi Power". I hope this purchase enables me to "cover all bases" , for the 24/7 all purpose carry weapon. My loopis- beaten body needs a break. ❤

[@AllAboutSurvival]

It's fascinating to see how these designs have shaped modern firearms.

[@oloflarsson7629]

As for the M1 Garand, every nation worth mentioning was developing semi-auto rifles for standard issue, before the Garand saw combat. Germany, imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, France and Mexico, all used semi-auto rifles in combat before the M1 Garand. Technically the M1 Garand was a simplified Mondragon rifle and the part that was innovative (the clips) was a dead end. As for the High Power the lockwork was highly influential, but the twin stack magazine (that wasn't an innovation that originated with the High Power) didn't take of until 30 years after the war. As for the M1 Carbine, it was far from the first PDW (France and Italy designed and fielded PDW's before the war, and many nations had PDW's during the first world war in the form av carbines, and stocked pistols) and the concept chosen with a dedicated PDW-cartridge died out with the M1 Carbine, never to resurrected, as the intermediate cartridge, made a dedicated PDW-cartridge redundant. The SKS was far from the first semi-auto rifles, it included no technical innovations, and characteristics like a tilting bolt, and feed via stripper clips, rather makes it a dated and unmodern design, even when it was introduced.

[@stevee5598]

Actually the Soviets entered WWII with a semi auto. The SVT 38/40

[@jason200912]

Well nobody had it lol

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

​@@jason200912 I think they had about half a million by the star of operation Barbarossa. But that was far from enough to arme anyone. But they were losing them fast.

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

Even before that was the AVS 36 and it was select fire for AA use😂

[@carlpaladino427]

After the German invasion, production shifted back to the Mosin but correct the US was not the only army with a semi.

[@Dread_Pirate_Homesteader]

Sks too

[@MichaelGallagher-xe1kq]

Thanks for doing these videos! I love learning about the history of firearms and you really do a great job of explaining and educating people about them

[@Hegshot87]

Thanks man

[@MrWatson2001]

I could’ve swore that the M1 grand was originally chambered in 276 Peterson to compete with the P Peterson rifle. Which is why it has an oddball number of rounds at eight. It was originally chambered in 10 rounds of the 276 and then when he was told that he was the forerunner, but it needed to be in 30 Calber he changed it to 30 odd six, which is why it’s only eight rounds.

[@robertlosasso4222]

No it never was , I was issued an M1 in basic training at Fort Dix NJ , there were many classes about the M1 and the subject your talking about never was mentioned. That was in 1962 and I also but not issued was the M15 which was a very good rifle also was fully automatic.

[@danielcurtis1434]

@@robertlosasso4222I believe you mean M14 not M15? I honestly don’t know what the M15 was? I’m sure Ian on Forgotten weapons has a video?

[@jason200912]

Arisaka t99 first chrome line bore as standard. Was amazing for using the standard salty corrosive ammo. Ak47 and ppsh43 also had chrome bores

[@ValidSurvival]

Great video highlighting their impact!

[@adrnacad3434]

Colt Paterson revolver. Truly revolutionary for it's time.

[@williamhurt8512]

and this was immediately proven by john coffe hayes and his texas rangers against the commanche's, who ruled the southern plains untill each ranger armed with two colt pattersons matched their firepower and mobility, at last turning the tide on the texas plains.....................................

[@gregb6469]

Misleading video title, as it is about WWII guns, not all-time guns.

[@ChodaStanks]

You can trace the entire arms race today to the 1841 Dreyse needle rifle

[@c.antoniojohnson7114]

Europe was a leader in firearms innovation since the wheel lock, flintlock, the bolt action rifle,the semiautomatic pistol. Honestly,the matchlock musket and rifle are also European innovations as well,so are certain projectiles. Most notable would be the minne ball of the Civil war,and the bolt used in the Witworth rifle. Can't forget smokeless powder,the Lebell rifle was the first rifle to use smokeless powder.

[@j.c.1988]

Love the vid👍👍 very entertaining and informative. (As always) Great work.

[@Thomas-yw9eo]

Would be great to have a really modernized variant of the M1 carbine. I think the most significant improvement would be newly designed magazines as the originals were their weak link in functional reliability.

[@BUZZKILLJRJR]

Awesome video subbed !

[@shastaham7630]

It's interesting that the MP40 was, for many years during and after the war, called the Schmeisser. If you look at the photos of the Sturmgewehr(s) in this video, they are labeled Schmeisser. Hugo Schmeisser was a major German gun manufacturer responsible for both.

[@brittakriep2938]

As far as i know, german Bundeswehr still has a large number of P1 ( after war P38) in storage, even a number of PPK. Those PPK pistols had been up to early 90s used by pilots, and soldiers in civilian dress ( members of military police, military intelligence, couriers and socalled , Wallmeister '. This Wallmeister had to controll prepared positions, which they had to blastoff in a starrting war , to create obstacles of heavy concrete parts or flooded terrain.)

[@RuBearUSA]

Germany and Russia had semiautomatic rifles in WWII with external box magazines, and even automatic rifles...

[@jason200912]

The garand already had a box mag kinda like a m14 but sadly army wanted clips only no mag.

[@wizard_of_poz4413]

Ordinance Corp being fudds for you

[@RuBearUSA]

@@jason200912 Money talks I guess, the same everywhere in the world. Otoh, there might not have a been a way to produce cheap and consistent magazines.

[@jason200912]

@@RuBearUSA mag production worked fine for the Thompson, mp40, 1911, bar, smle 1 mag + clips

[@ssggant9620]

Didn’t see my left and right arm. You’re slipping bud.

[@tonylam9548]

The most unpleasant feature of the P35 Browning are the magazine safety. It is as vital a feature as a screen door in a submarine.

[@Team-lr6ty]

Like, bro! From Russia- with love!

[@TerryKeever]

I sonetimes carry my Hi-Power copy. I replaced the small thumb safety and grips, and thought about changing sights but haven't.

[@billfisher6708]

Very interesting!

[@kskeel1124]

Thank you for giving love to the Walther PP, you here so much about the PPK...

[@sonnysantana5454]

both the M-1' C & the M-1' D saw service in south east asia ( the nam to those that were their ) attached with the M-84' scope , ho'ho'7' carried the Walter ppk in 7:65mm , not the pp model , the us M-9' ( beretta-92' ) originates from the 1951' eye'talian bertta brigadier

[@JesseGacria357]

Nice to see the Hi-Power on this list. Odd it never shows up in WW2 games 😂 Awesome list.

[@SWATforce1]

Could the M1897 be considered an influential gun being one of the earliest and most successful pump actions?

[@edwarddowd9502]

I’ve wondered why Colt didn’t get the contract instead of Beretta? Unless the 3 round burst was patented so no one else could use it. And I know: 9mm like everyone else

[@aaronfarnsworth7653]

They need to bring the P5 back, with updates to make it even better.

[@johnscreekmark]

I love the Garand, but it is sooooo heavy! I can’t imagine dragging that thing around.

[@ehayes5217]

very interesting, thanks!👍🇺🇸

[@danielcurtis1434]

Wait you start with the high power abd not the forerunners like the iconic 1911? The Brownings set the standard for a full slide with a tilting locked breach design. It seems more influential to me???

[@OldManMontgomery]

The actions of the Mr Garand and the M-14 are very much alike. To say the M-14 action is an updated version with changes would be closer to the reality. FN High Power. Dieudonne Saive was a close co-worker with Mr. Browning. He also worked for Fabrique Nationale (FN). In the position of designer Browning worked for FN, so I doubt the patent problem. Saive did in fact finish up the design of the HP (which refers to round count, not the power of the cartridge). Yes they are pretty decent pistols, but I have reservatopms regarding the caliber. "M" stands for 'model'. The change in 1925 or so was to change from year of adoption (like M1911 or M1903) to a sequential numbering system. Instead of continuing this, I will just encourage all parties involved in this video and a all viewers to read up on the subject if interested. It may seem boring but it has much to do with the development of both mechanical devices and how to operate a functional military.

[@GorillaCookies]

My grandpa carried and used a M1 carbine in WW2 as a Marine fighting on Guadalcanal. In Korea he said he carried and used a M2 Carbine in combat.

[@TheAncientAstronomer]

Just a bit of nitpicking, Sturm, depending on the context and word combination, can mean either storm, or assault. The German army at the time used the definition as an assault rifle. Obviously though the propaganda opted to use both definitions.

[@jason200912]

Gun jesus said Hitler didn't like the mp43 only because he wanted only 2 calibers for the army and no more new calibers

[@KAI19772011]

❤ I got most of the guns used in the European theater. I really enjoyed your video but from my point of view the grand daddy of the browning design is missing Colt 1911.❤ because the big fat slow still does the job

[@happyhaunter_5546]

All my homies including my fiance refuse to ditch their M9 for the Sig M17/M18. The M9 is still very much in service, and we should have adopted the M9A3.

[@RollingRigTraction]

The best Beretta is now finally the X model where they went to the frame mounted safety decocker like the Taurus PT92AF which is all around a better design, Beretta may have a better finish but that's about it. The Taurus was years ahead of the Beretta. It has a 17+1 capacity versus the 15+1, has better three dot sights, better ergonomics especially when Hogue rubber grips are installed, the frame mounted safety/decocker versus the slide mounted, the light and laser mount, the second strike capability Taurus has introduced into many of their pistols is great for light primer strikes. As far as Sig goes, the only one I would consider is the Mk25 if it's good enough for the teams it's a viable weapon.

[@savagelee6973]

The 20th century was the golden age of handheld firearms.From the Luger,1911, to the Beretta 92 and the Glock 17.All in the 20th century.

[@wizard_of_poz4413]

It was a quantum leap in everything

[@kskeel1124]

The ARVN used M-1 Garands And mainly M-1 Carbines for most of the war, because of their small stature the Garand was just to big and heavy for most of their soldiers to use effectively same with M-14...

[@ram-gb4yg]

i would replace some of these guns with the first gun ever built, whatever that is, the ak47, colt revolver, glock 17 and ar15.

[@ericwin99]

Nice list. Surprised not to see the Mosin Nagant. Cool info thanks

[@kennethtaylor964]

My understanding is the M1 Carbine was designed to effectively replace the 1911 for use by rear area troops. Hitting any enemy with a pistol required lots of training and practice. A rifle or carbine is more effective for use by rear area troops than a pistol.

[@jason60chev]

That is my understanding, too. It was never meant to be a front line infantry weapon.

[@Rusterman-is7ex]

I'm remember seeing a video on KZbin with Mikael Kalashnikov, he was in WW2 when he came home he said during the war Soviet weapons were shit. So that's why he went to work designing something better for his country, the result was the AK-47. Whitch lead to AKM, and AK-74 later.

[@kskeel1124]

They reason it took Russia so long to "copy" the STG-44 was that they didn't have the ability to reproduce the quality of components and mainly quality of alloys and quality control.

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[@AndrewRunnion-cr5zs]

What about early Makarov pistols. Way to many Walter's

[@c.antoniojohnson7114]

The TT33 should have been on the list, very powerful pistol. 7.62x25 Tok is very hot, almost like .357 sig, but a lighter projectile.

[@danielcurtis1434]

I don’t understand why the SKS was listed? How was it influential??? Who copied it??? I just don’t understand that one ditto for the SVT-40? Not the worst guns. However I don’t see what they influenced or inspired?

[@unapologetic7900]

Regarding the M1, Gen. George Patton went so far as to call it “the greatest battle implement ever devised.” Mic Drop!

[@GmanGSW]

Had Germany gone with the STG in '42, earlier, when they had field-able prototypes or focused on making more, sooner, they could've fielded 750K+/- STGs and there, likely, would've been a different outcome in WWII and Germany may have been able to "hold out." The German Army already had STG units devised, but not enough arms. Their Mk IV tanks were fine, but always building stronger, bigger... More to add, but... Thank God "the leader" was an idiot!

[@drmachinewerke1]

The small arms guns that change everything were the 1851 colt navy . And the 1849 pocket . Look at the numbers on the 1849

[@ChargerusPrime]

I genuinely think the M1 carbine needs to make a comeback especially in ban states like commiefornia. And I'm not talking about the ruger mini 14 or mini 30, I mean a faithful reproduction of these rifles that weigh exactly the same and handle the same. The mini 14 is a good ways heavier than the M1.

[@leoguy1609]

Funny how most people even experienced in weapons pronounce Garand wrong, it's pronounced Gærənd. Canadians have to be special in the pronunciation of their names.

[@jason60chev]

Probably because most everyone pronounces its, "Guh-rand" and that pronunciation gets absorbed into the fabric of speech, that the correct pronunciation seems odd.

[@brenttesterman3171]

Have all of those except the last one. I might of added the Glock.

[@RDBean]

@brent, well USA did win WWII

[@richardschleenvoigt4374]

I mean this is a list of influential guns of 20th centrury and fowards. Surely the Brownbess, The Kentucky Long Rifle, and the Needle Gun should be considered for MOST influential of ALL time!

[@agiliteka]

Dreyse Needle Gun should have definitely up there, along with the Maxim Machine Gun and the Henry-Martini

[@c.antoniojohnson7114]

The Brown Bess was the weapon that was used in Great Britain's many conquests,it should be on the list. The Kentucky Rifle and matchlock(the grandfather of all guns) also deserve to be on the list. Tales of the gun,the ten guns that changed the world was much better. No Mauser either? This is a WWll list.

[@jason60chev]

The Minie ball and the rifled musket.

[@toddm9501]

CZ 75??

[@larskunoandersen5750]

a 1911 was hard to shoot for somebody

[@matthewwinn1306]

Ummm ma Duce. And mg42

[@mathewnorton]

The m1 was not underpowered. this is a myth - I saw a ballistic gel demo that showed it had the same stopping power as todays 5.56 round - except it was not effective past 150 -200 meters - this represents about 95% of combat engagements so it would be at home on todays battlefields - much more useful than an SMG - with a higher capacity mag it would have been more than a match for the STG 44 - not to many people hit by one of these things would be around to continue the fight for long. In summary I believe the m1 was the equal to the STG 44 - the Ruger 5.56 today is considered to be an equal to the M15

[@c.antoniojohnson7114]

The M1 carbine was comparable to .357 magnum,it just didn't have the range of a full sized rifle.

[@mattyallen3396]

These videos are always biased asf to American firearms

[@RDBean]

@matty, USA did win WWII

[@tasjan9190]

Absolutely awesome how the AR10/15 has now became the most prolific and influential small arm in the Western world. Eugene Stoner and Jim Sullivan created the best combat rifle/carbine series in the world.

[@kevinking330]

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[@philliplatham4256]

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