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Having movie guns (and other props) as a hobby isn't specifically American. I live in a country with very strict gun control laws, and I collect and build repli

Having movie guns (and other props) as a hobby isn't specifically American. I live in a country with very strict gun control laws, and I collect and build replica movie guns (and other prop replicas). I hate what guns are used for, but I love movies. BTW. As a consequence of my hobby, I have begun finding the history of handguns interesting though. I have also started to appreciate the human-scale mechanical engineering and the design for usability and ergonomics. Gun designers don't mess about with the user interface when it is literally a matter of life and death.

int_19h 5y ago
> Gun designers don't mess about with the user interface Oh, there were plenty of gun designers who did mess up the ergonomics big time - it's just that these are the guns you learn in the history of "why we don't do things like that anymore" class. For example, many early SMGs were prone to feeding failures if the magazine was disturbed. At the same time, the magazine well is basically a natural forward vertical grip - and this was even more true on designs like MP40, where it's so far from the pistol grip. MP40 was supposed to be held with supporting hand gripping the handguard behind the magazine, but malfunctions induced by magwell grip were extremely common in practice.