# Firearms Enthusiasts! Which Machine Gun Should I Play With? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 25, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948 "2003-12-25T02:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948/41 "2003-12-29T19:19:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Xgemina \* > \*\ ***Bear\_Nenno** arghh! Actually, it’s the 93R not the 97/96. Well, their going to make me turn in my membership card to the Executioner’s Fan Club. And the 93R isn’t full-auto but has a 3rd burst selection. Still cool as far as I’m concerned. \*\* LOL… nintey-something ARRRRGH!!! The auto-pistol for pirates! NOT fullauto? I. did. not. know. that. I would still really like to see one!! And shoot one! If for no other reason than they are so rare in this country. Even G18s are pretty rare. But I’ve seen at least a couple of those. And those little conversion deals are VERY easy to come by and cheap too. What’s better, is one can put those conversions on any Glock. So you can have a fullauto 45, or 357sig or 10mm (woohoo). The converted 17 shoots just like the 18. But… it’s NOT an 18. So there is a bit of the “I have one, and you dont” value of the 18… If you’re an elitest anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948/42 "2003-12-29T19:32:58Z")
w w w. [geocities.com/bear\_nenno/webpic1.gif](http://geocities.com/bear_nenno/webpic1.gif) There’s the pic I was talking about! Back when I was fat and sat around shooting machine guns all day!! No mag in the SD, but the 100 round mag in the K more than makes up for that… If you check out the pic, PLEASE copy/paste it into the address bar. I put some spaces in the www to make sure you can’t CLICK it. Geocities got pissed last time I linked to a pic from a message board. ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948/43 "2003-12-30T03:58:28Z")
Looks like you’ve got both of the MP5s locked open - good on ya. ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948/44 "2003-12-30T04:02:01Z")
BTW - is that a _real_ MP5K or a converted SP89? ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948/45 "2003-12-30T09:26:00Z")
quote: A fun SMG to fire is the M3 Greasegun, partly because it looks like a 4th grader put it together. Kind of a slow rate of fire at .45 cal, makes you feel like you are literally throwing the lead. I thought so myself… but I found that it would jam if I didn’t fire the entire magazine. maybe it was only that weapon… ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948/46 "2003-12-30T12:06:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by radar ralf \* > \*\*BTW - is that a _real_ MP5K or a converted SP89? \*\* They are both original factory HK. No conversions. The company I worked for at the time (and still call “my shop” or “my store”) is the only Official HK Law Enforcement Distributor for the southeast. So ANY agency in those states wanting MP5s or UMPs or whatever has to get them from us. So, we had pleanty of samples of everything to play with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firearms-enthusiasts-which-machine-gun-should-i-play-with/220948.md?page=2)