The most amazing thing about this entire video is that the patent office responded in two days.

@Law0086

29 күн бұрын

They probably had a lot of people working still with not much to do.

The BAR is a really aesthetically pleasing firearm. It just looks so right.

@matthewbrasel2737

Ай бұрын

The WWII Era of firearms, vehicles, and aircraft look cool cool to me. Granted this was a WWI weapon, but this, the Thompson, Bren, Sherman, all of that stuff is astheticly pleasing to me.

@samuelleal6149

Ай бұрын

Browning mindset: make cool guns that look good

@frankbarnwell____

Ай бұрын

The BAR and a few 1920- or so shotguns just hollar "Bonnie and Clyde ", to me. Of course, Thompson smg, as well.

@Bobbymaccys

Ай бұрын

Yes! It looks cool AF!

@kruger7796

Ай бұрын

It looks heavy, real heavy :p

My grandfather Robert Browning inherited a tool room example. Traded with his lawyer for legal services before I was born. It’s really cool to see these guns still trading owners and gives me hope I can own one in the future.

@RebelScum1996

Ай бұрын

My great uncle is Samuel j Hawkins who invented the Hawkins percussion rifle trapper rifle ❤

@thomasvagenasjr5623

Ай бұрын

John M Browning was from my hometown of Ogden, Utah. The guy invented many of the firearms used by US forces in WWII.

@austinbouma4315

Ай бұрын

@@thomasvagenasjr5623no shit

@1lovesoni

Ай бұрын

Woodrow Wilson was my great great great uncle, and Jasper John's is some sort of cousin on my father's side (though I've only met him once at a wedding, very reclusive). I have a shotgun from Wilson in storage somewhere, but with it being in a pretty bad state of disrepair, and with no way of effectively proving its ownership, it's not a very worthwhile collection piece.

@josephvalcarce3124

Ай бұрын

Ever been by the Browning sports club? Cool how it stands out in the water.​@@thomasvagenasjr5623

I remember seeing an old magazine ad where the BAR was being sold in Texas hardware stores for the bandit problem. If you could have a time machine, this could be a good trip to buy one of these from the hardware store.

@razgriz1258

Ай бұрын

If you had a time machine you could go back and prevent the 1934 NFA and own one or a reproduction right now...

@arvintyree1109

Ай бұрын

​@@razgriz1258I'd just straight up abolish the NFA

@frankbarnwell____

Ай бұрын

One could outfit a good little army from a Sears catalog.

@fr4ct1v09

Ай бұрын

@@razgriz1258 Or you could do something to repeal NFA or particularly FOPA.

@AsbestosMuffins

Ай бұрын

1930s hardware stores were WILD

Sweden bought 403 BAR, designated Kg m/21, later manufactured under license by Carl Gustav Stads Gevärsfaktori. Revised in 1937, m/37.

@Gibnetz

Ай бұрын

The look a difrent than a normale BAR, rly cool LMG.

@jasonwooden

Ай бұрын

Fun fact: They can be assembled from a flat-pack using only an allen-key wrench and cartoonish instructions.

@justindunlap1235

Ай бұрын

If i remember correctly they converted them to 6.5x55 swede, the light recoil/flat trajectory would make a pretty sweet lmg.

The Irony is that in 1920, anyone could Order and Own a BAR, but Don’t you DARE have a shot of Bourbon! Twenty years later, you could get Drunk all day long, but Don’t you DARE to shoot a Full Auto Weapon!

@hornmonk3zit

Ай бұрын

They did that deliberately to keep the Prohibition Bureau agents from losing their jobs after brutalizing the public over beer for so long.

@timbirch4999

Ай бұрын

Full auto firearms for EVERYONE!! What could possibly go wrong!!

@knutdergroe9757

Ай бұрын

​@timbirch4999 tell me, What could go wrong ? Here is something you need to look at. Crime actually goes up with more gun laws. Funny how that happens. Totally kills your gun control logic.

@Wohlfe

Ай бұрын

Reminder that the first gun laws were created to disarm minorities explicitly.

@AllahDoesNotExist

Ай бұрын

​@@knutdergroe9757chicken and egg problem

"This is a recovered gun" - he says like a caretaker would speak of an injured animal they are fond of

I post to support the alligator rhythm

@robertsmith4681

Ай бұрын

Crocodilians unite !

@paulis7319

Ай бұрын

Rawr!🐊

@FabianMacGintyONeill

Ай бұрын

Ah, finally another person who understands that KZread is run by a cabal of breakdancing alligators

@oddball_the_blue

Ай бұрын

I dunno, I prefer the Al Gore rhythm... (that man can move)

@xxacidmv

Ай бұрын

🐊

Sweden bought 403 BARs in 1921 and later built a number on licence at Carl Gustafs gevärsfaktori. The ones bought had a detachable pistol grip. The Swedish name is Kulsprutegevär m/21 or kg m/21 for short.

@andersjjensen

Ай бұрын

I love Swedish nomenclature. It literally translates to "bullet spray rifle".

Back in the old days when you could buy a machine gun at your will…

@MrJeepmarine

Ай бұрын

Repeal the NFA!!

@craigthescott5074

Ай бұрын

You still can but it takes forever and it’s ridiculously expensive.

Ah yes, a gun that kicks like perkele, what does it NOT need? A pistol grip, of course. Those were truly the times of all time.

@LD-Orbs

Ай бұрын

Wild design decisions - some great, some inexplicably traditionalist - adds to the charm.

My father used BAR in his service with 10th Mountain Division dealings with German military in mountainous northern Italy. He said to use it effectively required 3 shot bursts because recoil of longer bursts moved BAR off target. He said he and all other BAR riflemen removed bipods to reduce weight plus bipods did not help with accuracy in combat conditions.

I've read the title card for the video ("Colt Automatic Machine Rifle ...") and came up with a really stupid conversation in my head. - _Hey, what do you do for living?_ - _I am a CAMR man._ - _Oh! You're shooting a lot of pictures! How cool is that?_ - _Not pictures, but... It pays the bills, yeah._

But Ian I want the 1919

@ForgottenWeapons

Ай бұрын

Hey, don't let me stop you! :)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as you stick to a 10 round magazine the sweepstakes rifle is actually perfectly legal in CA because it doesn't have a pistol grip. The latest model of BAR is legal in CA for the same reason.

6.5mm seems more appropriate for the BAR. The reduction in recoil should make the gun more manageable on full auto. The thing was a beast and the biggest guy in the squad got to carry the gun.

I have to agree with Ian regarding rebuilding it as original. You can always keep the currently installed parts or do what you please, but at some point the ability to restore will go away and originality matters historically.

@HunterTN

Ай бұрын

Given how pitted the receiver is, the rest of the gun may have been in pretty bad shape. And if you're spending the money to own a legal MG it needs to be configured to fire first and foremost.

@possumpatrol45

Ай бұрын

Dremel go brrrrrr

@andersjjensen

Ай бұрын

@@HunterTN Yup. And it's always easy spending other people's money with high standards.

My dad carried a BAR in the Marines (1959-1962). First thing he did was remove the bipod.

8:40 Here I was for a split-second thinking Finland placed an order for 700 BARs in 6.5 Arisaka haha.

This is the 2nd Colt 1919 you've had on the channel. The first was a Faux Monitor built at the direction of Jim Ballou. He was rather proud of it; it had a Stellite barrel turned down from a 1919a4, the rest of the parts were from a R75 parts kit, and he engraved the 'COLT MONITOR' on the left side of the receiver to match period Colt Advertising. It sold at auction with no indication that it was a built up replica

@ryanr.3925

Ай бұрын

That's fkd

@georgeknott7563

Ай бұрын

@@ryanr.3925 Jim was pretty open about it being a clone; he even wrote an article about building it but it went unpublished. He said it was better than Colt built. Whoever got their hands on it after his death sent it to auction as a real Monitor. It was built on a Colt 1919 stripped receiver

The BAR is without a doubt one of the most unique firearms and something that WW1/WW2 gun collectors would love to add to their collection. Thank you for showing it to us Ian.

Bonnie and Clyde's favourite gun. Also a favourite of the agents that took them down.

I had a semi BAR made by OHIO ORDINANCE. The one drawback I noticed was the rifle was extremely heavy, but in a full auto version that would be a plus, because it controls the recoil. I sold my semi back to the original owner for $6500.00 a full auto version is ridiculously expensive.

A CAR walked into a BAR...

@ragingjaguarknight86

Ай бұрын

Three Germans walked into a WAR. (Winchester Automatic Rifle)

So if you could dual wield BAR's, would that make you a BAR BAR-ian?!? ^-^

I believe that I read that during a police ambush of Clyde and Bonnie that Bonnie used a BAR to shoot their way out. Supposedly one of the officers said that he thought she wad going to cut down the tree behind which he was hiding. As to the truth I can't say.

@ForgottenWeapons

Ай бұрын

Yes, Bonnie had a cut-down M1918 (stolen from a National Guard armory) that she apparently liked.

@ciamciaramcia99

Ай бұрын

She must've been pretty strong to fire from the hip a sawed off BAR in full auto. That sounds like a whole lotta recoil for a girl who's 5 foot nothing and weighs under 100 pounds.

@donwyoming1936

Ай бұрын

The cut down BARs were a glimpse into the future.

@ForgottenWeapons

Ай бұрын

Yeah, it's not clear to me if she was really effective with it, or if it was more of a PR thing...although PR has an effectiveness in it's own right.

@seculartapes

Ай бұрын

Whether she can hit anything with it or not, I imagine having someone open up in your general direction with a full auto 30-06 is pretty disconcerting, especially if all you’ve got is like a .38 and a shotgun.

NB I was told by somebody from the US Patent and Trademark Office that there is no such thing as a classified patent. After all, a patent is a public notice that you will be breaking the law if you make something that infringes on the patent. Rather the patent application is classified, and the process of getting the actual patent is put on hold.

My absolute favorite platform to run!

Those things were usually assigned to the biggest strongest member of a squad. A bear to carry and a bear to fire full auto.

All looks like shiny quality metals? Very clean and shiny and solid looking.

The first gun I ever truly lusted after...and continue to given how expensive the Ohio Ordnance model is. The BAR has to be the classiest machine rifle/LMG/SAW ever.

Bring back commercial full-autos

Very cool rifle! The bar was a very foward thinking weapon for it's time.

Thing of beauty

Must have been quite something to carry into battle back in WW1

Thanks

I love these commercial BARs

8:45 That was Sweden. They bought BARs from FN built specially for swedish specifications (cal. 6.5x55mm, pistol grip, dust cover for ejection port, spiked bipod) and adopted it as their LMG called Kg M/21. Don't You remember Ian? kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKum0q1_e8bIos4.html

Imagine walking into a gun store and just buying a BAR no questions asked

@cyrilhudak4568

Ай бұрын

Flash back to the firearm store in "Highwaymen"

@initial_kd

Ай бұрын

Casually own a Maxim for home defence.

@AshleyPomeroy

Ай бұрын

I'm reminded of the gun store scene in The Terminator. Which raises the question of what guns The Terminator would have bought if he had gone back to 1919 - he could have had a 12-guage autoloader and perhaps a longslide .45, but he'd have had trouble getting hold of an Uzi.

@ryanr.3925

Ай бұрын

Saw one not long ago in my local shop. Ohio ordinance 8500 buckaroos. Background check 10 minutes

@trooperdgb9722

Ай бұрын

Well... I imagine they were pretty damn pricey!

So what's the difference between this and the Colt Monitor? or are they the same?

@ForgottenWeapons

Ай бұрын

The Monitor was a quite different model, with a lighter and shorter barrel, and pistol grip. I have a full video on it here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJZqpZt6g9zSnbQ.html

@kt00628

Ай бұрын

The colt monitor has a shorter barrel with a large Cutts compensator, a shortened handguard and a pistol grip. This looks more like an off the shelf version of the 1918 BAR marketed to civilian purchase

@nachoakajrod

Ай бұрын

The Monitor is a variant of this. A pistol grip was added, and a huge climb compensator on the end. A few other minor changes but operation and action are the same. Think of an M-16 A1 compared to the modern M4. Same weapon with different configurations

@bobhill3941

Ай бұрын

The Monitor was shorter, lighter, with had a compensator.

@OrionGould71

Ай бұрын

Same basic design but the Monitor is shorter, has a pistol grip, and a big muzzle break. The Monitor was mainly made for law enforcement to keep up with criminals armed with their own BARs, Thompsons, etc.

a great very interesting video and firearm Mr.GJ.have a good one Mr.

Sweden did use BAR. I 2 versions actually. Kulsprutegevär m/21 and m/37. About 400 m/21 wich would have been the 1919 model. The m/37 had a pistol grip among other "upgrades" not sure if those where m/21s that where upgraded locally.

Excellent vid. Thanks ian

Imagine being able to just go into a gun store and come out with that the good ol days of America 🇺🇸

Just a beast of a gun

BEAUTIFUL,,,simple beautiful 🎉

Love these videos

Thanks!

Algo says yes.

Are the overlords gonna allow us to comment today?

@shawn7889

Ай бұрын

FYI for anyone that sees this and doesnt know why. KZread is f'd and has disabled them on its own almost a dozen times and he keeps manually reopening them.

@jamesallred460

Ай бұрын

​@@shawn7889I wondered what the hell was going on. Thanks for letting us know.

@johnking6252

Ай бұрын

👁️👁️ it's past curfew, do you know where your children are? Hahahaha. 👍

@enricopaolocoronado2511

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I was wondering why the last video or so had comments disabled.

@oscarjosefsson9300

Ай бұрын

Very interesting! I have heard that this phenomenon has affected alternative media channels here in Sweden and I noticed it on one such video yesterday.

Forgotten weapons. Do you think its possible that you could do a review on the rpk74m?

Cool rifle.

Which of these is the superior light machine gun- the M1918A2 BAR or the DP-27/DP-28?

How this guy don't have like 100 milion subscribers is beyond me.

Cool gun

I have the newest generation of this gun from Browning. The BAR mk3 DBM in 308.

Great video as always.

Browning knew how to make good guns and good looking guns.

@garypiont6114

Ай бұрын

A bit chunky but good

Just entered with 15 minutes to spare! Even if I don’t win I’m just happy to support you, and a small veteran owned business (and I get a cool freaking mug)

That's the Bonnie and Clyde killer. Real Purdy. ❤

My fave joke on this subject; June 6th 1944, Omaha beach head: 'Two Germans walk into a bar...''

Leave it to John Moses Browning to develop an Assault Weapon 20 years before everyone else - and have the American Army try to turn it into a Machine Gun. My Service - the Marines - knew better. Rather than my usual BAR Rant - I'll tell an Anecdote about the Army Chief of Staff and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Army Chief of Staff: - _"The Marines Are Fanatics!"_ Marine Commandant: - _"Uh ... Yes?"_ That really happened. .

Awesome

Love your channel can't thank you enough,can't swing it,

You just answered my question... thank you :)

While it would be neat to own that beast, I know myself, and I know I would become bored with it pretty quickly. So I won't enter, so someone else can win it. You're welcome. Thank you for the video Ian.

Markin Rockwell the Third. Got it.

Mmmm BAR my beloved

What a tank of a weapon.

This video made me wonder: what was the first long gun to receive a pistol grip?

It was Sweden that bought them btw before they switched over to the later BAR patterns.

I m not sure but ,i remember having seen a photograh,from sweden volunteers in the winter war .Using BAR with pistol grip,i do not remember where i saw it. But i think i have seen it some times. I am from finland and seen guide a lot photographs from finnish wars.But i could be wrong.

I miss the old US when arms manufacturers couldn't contain themselves to sell their cutting edge weaponry to the general public through cutout ads in magazines. 🤣

mannn i have 0 use for a gun but BARs are so.. so cool despite not being entirely practical

This would be my Grail rifle. The only way I could afford it would be to inherit it.

Very cool.

Hey. Ian I have a request could you possibly do a video on the German 77mm WW1 cannon/artillery???

Okay. Ive seen the photos from a biography book of JMB. Ive been to the museum in cody. I read the biography book, and even remember some of what ive read . I know what JMB's ogden gunshop looked like, as much as the above description allows, at least. Are you telling us that JMB did ALL of his R&D work,( i bet john didnt call it r&d, but whatever) In that little old log cabin blacksmith shop? Im sure he invented the high-wall there, but the 1911? The BAR? The A-5? They weren't no 110 outlets to plug a computer into in that cabin.

When is enter to win. Do I get a mug and a gun mat. Or just one of the two. Or could I buy them separately and still get entered to win? I don't exactly know how this works .

First commercial Bar comes out just months before prohibition starts...coincidence?

@HenryMulligan

Ай бұрын

Yes, in fact, it is a coincidence.

One of the guns that killed Bonnie and Clyde

@LiteralCrimeRave

Ай бұрын

They used a Colt Monitor. They wouldn't have been able to use this.

@bobhill3941

Ай бұрын

​@@LiteralCrimeRaveStephen Hunter's Bob Lee Swagger book G-Men features a Colt Monitor prominently. It's where I first learned of that BAR variation.

@paulstuhrenberg9165

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure it was a US issue BAR on loan from a NG Armory

@LiteralCrimeRave

Ай бұрын

@paulstuhrenberg9165 Monitor that they purchased with govenment funds

@Donkeykongington

Ай бұрын

That gun isn't one of the ones used to kill Bonnie and Clyde

Good video.

Waiting for "Charles Swagger" to enter the chat...iykyk😉

Okay I entered. Fingers crossed

Yeah

That is cool

I wish the U.S. Army had been as forward thinking as the Swedes regarding modifying the design. It could have been so much better. I still love the weapon, but a removeable barrel and a pistol grip would have been nice.

Sweden designated the BAR as M21 in 6.5x55 Swedish . Some made their way to Finland during the Winter War and Continuation War.

He really ran a $7k completely rebuilt rifle through a 2 gun match, that makes my soul so so happy

@oldesertguy9616

Ай бұрын

I believe that was a newly manufactured model, not rebuilt.

A quick look around seems to indicate that both Sweden and Norway used the BAR in WW2, although they were listed as 1918 models. The Norway guns were noted as having been used by the Norwegian resistance, which might imply that the bulk of any 1919 sales were probably to Sweden.

@Ben_Lehnert

Ай бұрын

That's quite the oopsie...

Crazy to think that machine guns used to be just for sale publicly. You could do anything in the old days, huh?

Why is it only available in 720p?

Is there any chance that Ian will do a video on the Bergman MG-15? I would love to see that. Just sign below to vote.

Was there ever a BAR which feeds from a belt? It kinda seems like a no brainer for this type of gun, if used like a SAW.

@garypiont6114

Ай бұрын

Why waste ammo?

@JeffEbe-te2xs

Ай бұрын

Surprised a protype wasn’t made

@kmech3rd

Ай бұрын

My suspicion is that the extra mass and weight required to add a belt feed would have made the thing immobile and ruined the form factor.

@ForgottenWeapons

Ай бұрын

The Swedes prototypes a belt fed one, but it didn't go any farther. For the US, the belt-fed role was the M1919A6.

@Ghatbkk

Ай бұрын

The FN MAG is a belt fed BAR - the receiver is flipped.

Could one place a precision barrel on this?

Kool!! I want one. Doesn't our constitutional say we can!! 😮

Is this muted? Or is YT being tryannts again?

Walking fire intensifies

The M1918 is a battle rifle & the M1918A2 is a light machine gun. Specification of M1918 battle rifle: 1. Selective-fire mode can be switch in between semi and full-auto 2. With normal rifle barrel 3. With a rifle sight 4. No bipod Specification of M1918A2 light machine gun: 1. Fire mode only full-auto 2. With heavy barrel(also known as machine gun barrel) to prevent overheating 3. With a machine gun sight similar to the Browning M2HB 4. Have a bipod

@kot0472

Ай бұрын

Well there was no real difference in barrel with original and A2 version. Also the sight isn't any argument. It's the same in rifles and machine guns.

@johntaliaferrothompson6052

Ай бұрын

@@kot0472 I just read it on wiki its say the A2 is in different design.

@kot0472

Ай бұрын

@@johntaliaferrothompson6052 Yes, but I mean, the type of gun doesn't determine that it will have open notch sight or aperture sight.

@johntaliaferrothompson6052

Ай бұрын

@@kot0472 The M1918 sight is much more fitted(comfort) for shoulder firing rifle. The sight of the M1918A2 is terrible for shoulder firing. It much more fitted for prone firing like a machine gun.

@kot0472

Ай бұрын

@@johntaliaferrothompson6052 I dunno dude, heard this old sight was better in every way than new open sight, no matter how you were shooting.

Iam like 90% sure ive heard that we (sweden) baought a load of BAR around WW1 or soon after but i have no source to point at :/