on a lighter note...

[BRICKBURN]

and then...

 

[Woodcarver]

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and then...
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Does that count against your license?

 

[steve white]

Growing up in Bulawayo, Rhodesia we knew about gun safety! Whenever we went out to family farms or "out of town" places there were always FN's, Uzi's and 9mm out and ready for use. They would be leaning against the kitchen or lounge walls etc. Loaded and ready for action...

Kids would be running around BUT we knew, without a shadow of doubt, that if we touched them our asses would be black and blue until the day we died! We'd skirt those weapons like we would a coiled puff adder!

We knew about gun safety but we also knew what we were doing when we played with our pellet guns, bows and arrows, blow pipes, catapults etc. Yes we were naughty buggers sometimes but we weren't idiots (although some might disagree)

I think my order of experience was No.1 pellet gun, No.2 pellet gun, .22, FN, 9mm, Uzi and then my dad's O/U Berretta shotgun... best days of my life!

If the Israeli civilians had been armed like that there would have been at least equal casualties on both sides recently...

 

[Dewald]

Growing up in Bulawayo, Rhodesia we knew about gun safety! Whenever we went out to family farms or "out of town" places there were always FN's, Uzi's and 9mm out and ready for use. They would be leaning against the kitchen or lounge walls etc. Loaded and ready for action...

Kids would be running around BUT we knew, without a shadow of doubt, that if we touched them our asses would be black and blue until the day we died! We'd skirt those weapons like we would a coiled puff adder!

We knew about gun safety but we also knew what we were doing when we played with our pellet guns, bows and arrows, blow pipes, catapults etc. Yes we were naughty buggers sometimes but we weren't idiots (although some might disagree)

I think my order of experience was No.1 pellet gun, No.2 pellet gun, .22, FN, 9mm, Uzi and then my dad's O/U Berretta shotgun... best days of my life!

I still have a Uzi from the Rhodesian Light Infantry hanging on my man-cave wall, donated to me by the widow of an ex colleague, who used to be a GP in Rhodesia, before specialising in radiology in RSA. The weapon is supposedly deactivated, but simply has a 9mm lead slug tapped into the barrel. Obviously they used it for civilian defence, and the second magazine lies on top of the weapon.

 

[Trophyhunter01]

 

[mdwest]

I still have a Uzi from the Rhodesian Light Infantry hanging on my man-cave wall, donated to me by the widow of an ex colleague, who used to be a GP in Rhodesia, before specialising in radiology in RSA. The weapon is supposedly deactivated, but simply has a 9mm lead slug tapped into the barrel. Obviously they used it for civilian defence, and the second magazine lies on top of the weapon.

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That my friend is not an Uzi..

I’m 99% certain it is a Czech SA25 or one of the other old combloc variants… it pre dates the UZI… the Uzi actually incorporated several of its best features…

They are a fun little weapon to shoot… rugged, reliable, low cyclic rate and 9mm so easy to control..

If it were a functioning firearm it would be worth a small fortune to a class III collector here in the states..

 

[Dewald]

That my friend is not an Uzi..

I’m 99% certain it is a Czech SA25 or one of the other old combloc variants… it pre dates the UZI… the Uzi actually incorporated several of its best features…

They are a fun little weapon to shoot… rugged, reliable, low cyclic rate and 9mm so easy to control..

If it were a functioning firearm it would be worth a small fortune to a class III collector here in the states..

Thank you for the information, I appreciate it. Reactivating it would simply require tapping out the lead slug in the barrel. The headache would be to get it to the USA to a collector.

At the moment it is merely an interesting conversation piece hanging on the wall. Given the vast amount of communist weapons that entered Rhodesia, and how many were repurposed by the military you could be spot on. I suspect the term “Uzi” might have been broadly used then for all 9mm hand machine carbines. I will look if there are any stamps or inscriptions on it and PM it to you a bit later.

 

[Hunter4752001]

Close but not quite. Its a LDP Kommando designed and manufactured in Rhodesia. Necessity is the mother of invention - especially when your country is under sanctions.

 

[Dr Ray]

Close but not quite. Its a LDP Kommando designed and manufactured in Rhodesia. Necessity is the mother of invention - especially when your country is under sanctions.

Necessitude is the mother of intention

 

[Dr Ray]

Necessitude is the mother of intention

Not original
It’s from a musical called
Viva Mexico
I played in the orchestra ( guitar)

 

[mdwest]

Close but not quite. Its a LDP Kommando designed and manufactured in Rhodesia. Necessity is the mother of invention - especially when your country is under sanctions.

I had to google LDP Kommando..

It looks like we’re all correct!

The Kommando was a locally manufactured sub gun that was patterned from the CZ SA23… that locals commonly titled “the bush uzi”…

That was a fun little exercise! Thanks!

 

[mdwest]

Will stop threadjacking after this post…

Well done video on the Kommando above..

And good information on it below (for old school firearms enthusiasts like myself)…

Kommando LDP - Modern Firearms

Lacoste / Kommando LDP (Rhuzi) semi-automatic carbine Lacoste / Kommando LDP (Rhuzi) semi-automatic carbine Calibers 9×19 Length, overall 425 / 600 mm Weight 2.7 kg empty Barrel length 200 mm Magazine capacity, rounds 25, 30 or 40 The LDP semi-automatic carbine was developed during...

modernfirearms.net

 

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[mdwest]

 

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