Friday 11 January 2013

`New` sidearm for Britain's armed forces

This has been a long time coming. Why did it go on for so long? *Adolf warned us off the Browning nearly seventy years ago:

Hitlergram No. 136
  HITLER:
Who has been giffing mein Afrika Korps zer drag clothes!
HIMMLER:
It vos me meiner Führer.
HITLER:
You dumb kopf!! You silly Nana, vy zer poofs do ve have in zer army!
HIMMLER:
Nix poofs, zese are drag artists, zey are training to keep up zer morale of zer boys.
HITLER:
Vot I hear zer boys have all be up zer drag artists, how can mein Afrika Korps make shoot bang fire fight vit zer sore arses.
HIMMLER:
Zey like it mein Führer.
HITLER:
Like it? Zey must stop it!!! No more zer brown hatting until zer final victory. Give zer order. Stop all zer Browning!
*(Courtesy of Spike Milligan)

3 comments:

Blue Eyes said...

SIdearms from Austria. Ammo from Belgium. I hope we know what we're doing!

SCOTTtheBADGER said...

I prefer a larger bullet. I shall stay with .45ACP. I do not understand the allure of the GLOCK. That thing has such an appalling grip angle, and I consider the trigger system to be an accidental discharge waiting to happen. give me an HK or a SIG, please, or let me have my Colt Government Model.

Quartermaster said...

If I liked DA pistols I'd take an HK USP. Since I don't I'll take the good ol' firearms design genius Moses Browning's design we call the M1911. I'm also a steadfast proponent of the big hole theory. I like the .50 AE, but a Desert Eagle is a bit of a handful for me in rapid fire. I could stand it in a modified scary gun like an Ar-15. Someone made an upper for the .50 AE. It took a modified 30 round mag to hold 10 rounds of .50 AE. But it would get the attention of target real quick.

I am happy with the .45ACP, however.