Rhineland is working on a 9mm FG-42

I'm admittedly not very well versed in gunsmithing and I get the way lower pressures/wear and tear of pistol rounds but if they were cranking these out 80+ years ago firing 7.92, surely with modern tech in machining/metallurgy these couldn't be that hard to produce in proper rifle cals like 7.62x39? CNC and automated brakes should reduce some of the tooling needs no?
 
edmmatt said:
I'm admittedly not very well versed in gunsmithing and I get the way lower pressures/wear and tear of pistol rounds but if they were cranking these out 80+ years ago firing 7.92, surely with modern tech in machining/metallurgy these couldn't be that hard to produce in proper rifle cals like 7.62x39? CNC and automated brakes should reduce some of the tooling needs no?
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Building them in a low pressure cartridge like 9mm allows them to use a simple blow back action. Far cheaper to produce. I agree though, I’d love one of these in its original chambering or something else common, but I probably wouldn’t like the price. This is a plinking gun. May as well be in a plinking calibre.
 
johnny the boy said:
I like this put on a folder and very Sterling SMG ish.
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I tried to see how it is sterlingish, and the only thing I could come up with was... well I'm still trying to picture a sterling when I look at the picture. I can only come up with 3 thing that relate each other: the caliber is the same, and the original guns of these two designs debuted in the same war. I would love a sterling, but id love this FG-9 a little bit more. It will look pretty sweet beside my P.08 and MP-40. The Sterling would look very nice beside my No.4 Mk1 (T) however!
 
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