I Have This Old Gun - Vickers Belt-Fed Machine Gun

[@fortawesome1974]

I recently worked at one of the biggest gunshops in Australia. In about 2013 I think it was there was a gun amnesty and someone had handed in a machine gun. We were contacted and asked if we wanted to buy it. Having the right licence to buy a machine gun my boss was very interested. It turned out to be a 1942 Vickers, still in it's original crate and the only thing missing was the water bottle. It was STILL IN IT'S COSMOLINE!!! It had NEVER been fired!! Unfortunately the idiotic Australian government wouldn't let us export it to the US where it could be bought by someone with te right licence. It could have sold for hundreds of thousands of US dollars. An Australian made (Lithgow) Vickers!! I wept when I found out it was being either made unusable or turned into a blank firing movie gun.

[@13infbatt]

Watching a vickers team in action is amazing, how they make adjustments, clear stoppages, move and set up, indirect fire, area denial, anti aircraft, it was obvious the need for a specialized machine gun Corp . They were able to use it to its maximum potential .probably a few sore knuckles though

[@dispatchforthwith]

Larry Vickers made that.

[@pilgrum23]

Made down the road where I live

[@johnvickers8071]

I wonder if I am related to the people who invented that machine gun

[@keithmoore5306]

yeah they didn't fix everything wrong with it!! they left that goddamn knuckle busting charging handle in place!!

[@kirkstinson7316]

British propaganda. The factory was co owned by Maxim and Vickers (later just Vickers). The redesign of the gun (flip the action to make the receiver lower/lighter). And trenches were not caused by just machine guns. Artillery caused more casualties then the MG. And machine guns on planes? Ya, the Lewis guns were there. The German Spandua machine guns were there. He'll the Germans invented interupter gear!

[@georgemorley1029]

This is a National Rifle Association production. The NRA is American. This is not a British video. How is this “British” propaganda and not “American” propaganda? Just curious as to how you can say the British are somehow complicit in this. Example - if a Japanese man made an inaccurate or simply untrue claim about a Kalashnikov rifle, would that be Russian propaganda?