mbogo3, you are dating yourself. HA ha.
Back in the days (golden age of firearms), there was a lot of WWII propaganda that was still prevalent in North American memories. Some of this misinformation is still around today.
Many of the later products to come out of Japan at the end of the war were causes of concern. There were a lot of training rifles around that were crudely finished, purpose built pieces. They resembled standard milspec arms but in many cases were made of cast iron, rather than ballistic class steel. A few back yard geniuses thought they would clean up these specimens by just about any means available. If the "gunsmith" had a milspec rifle to start with, he/she was pretty safe. If they had one of the training rifles, they were building a grenade to hold between their hands, in front of their face.
This was part of the reason for the misinformation. Another reason was the Allied governments propensity to "talk down" the small arms issued to the Axis and Japanese armed forces. This was mostly BS but it made the people at home feel their troops were much better supplied than their adversaries.
Another good example of a very strong action that gets talked down is the Carcano.
Back in the days (golden age of firearms), there was a lot of WWII propaganda that was still prevalent in North American memories. Some of this misinformation is still around today.
Many of the later products to come out of Japan at the end of the war were causes of concern. There were a lot of training rifles around that were crudely finished, purpose built pieces. They resembled standard milspec arms but in many cases were made of cast iron, rather than ballistic class steel. A few back yard geniuses thought they would clean up these specimens by just about any means available. If the "gunsmith" had a milspec rifle to start with, he/she was pretty safe. If they had one of the training rifles, they were building a grenade to hold between their hands, in front of their face.
This was part of the reason for the misinformation. Another reason was the Allied governments propensity to "talk down" the small arms issued to the Axis and Japanese armed forces. This was mostly BS but it made the people at home feel their troops were much better supplied than their adversaries.
Another good example of a very strong action that gets talked down is the Carcano.
