Italy's Sleeper Submachine Gun: The Beretta 38A
Italy's Sleeper Submachine Gun: The Beretta 38A
The Beretta 38A is not a gun that comes to mind for many people today when discussing World War Two submachine guns, but at the time it was one of the most desirable guns of its type. So – does it live up to that reputation?
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Lol. Unless you have a magic infinite ammo magazine, running out of ammo is not a malfunction.
Bellissima
It’s a beautiful gun, 🇮🇹
Held one once, in a police reference library of guns. Beautiful piece of kit. Would love to fire one but would probably have to visit a place like the U.S.A. or Switzerland, etc.
Beretta M1938 was the best Italian Weapon togheter the Beretta Pistol! The rest of Italian weapons all shit 😂😂😂
He’s not even pulling the fucking trigger
Left ejecting??
How havei never heard of this gun or seen in WW2 games
This is my fave
Maine winter with a pleasant SMG? Cozy vibes all around.
Can be also found in the hands of the Mafia gangsters in Italy😎
Compared to other WWII SMG this is a well designed gun.
SMG Music ❤️
First firearm I ever shot. During bootcamp in Italy in the 1980s. Mine didn’t have the barrel shroud though (slightly later model). We also had a more modern SMG, I think it was called the Beretta M-12.
2:03 "magazine shroud"!
Best in ww2 – worst in bfv
Does the bolt hit the rear? It looks to have generous allowance for bolt travel. Constant recoil?
That sounds like my mom’s sewing machine.
Cast forged alloy chassis.
Same design.
I’m Italian, and I really liked this video, because in the Second World War, we didn’t have a good reputation, and in this video, you rate an Italian machine gun, with the right respect, thanks for the nice words. Greetings from Italy
Never underrated or appreciated. My favorite platform of all time. Very rare & very $$. M49/57 is in my future.
There it is. That’s the North African WW2 weapon I’d been asking about. Lol
LOL running out of ammo is a malfunction
I have watched almost ALL of Ian’s videos, but this is the first video I have ever seen where I fully understood how a compensator worked. Mainly due to the design.
Even sounds like it has a sound reducers
But was expensive to produce
I’m very surprised Ian didn’t buy it himself!
"….the Axis had access…"
The Papal police had semi auto ones with only the one trigger. VERY rare guns!
This is the magazine that the Israelis copied for the Uzi.
Looks like a nice tool.
I unironically saw co2 airsoft rifles have more recoil that this MAB
Very nice.
Kjw ?
The Rolex of early smg’s. Beretta was and is the premiere of gun makers.
Thank you to post this video👍🏻
The Barretta sub is basically a rolls greaser.
where is the recoil?
What a beauty!
perhaps this is the best weapon that we Italians have made, the others are uncomfortable or difficult to build
Crazy how the Italians could make such a great sub machine gun, but an absolute shit ass light machine gun. It’s like the Italians are capable of only two things, absolute brilliance, or absolute failures. 😂😂😂
Italians do it better….
Incredibile how we managed to create one of the best submachine gun in history but being defeated by the Greeks
This machine gun doesn’t have recoil!! Its like an airsoft gun!!
It seems so smooooth!
aaah so that’s what it is. There’s a great picture of 2 British soldiers being treated by 2 Italian nurses in Catania Sicily, 1943, one of the Brits has this rifle slung over his shoulder
I like the fact that the barrel doesn’t look like a wet noodle when being fired full auto. When you watch some of the WW2 sub guns in slow Mo. It’ looks like they’re made out of PVC
nice video. take a shot of whiskey prior and your joke deliveries will be solid. trust me it works
I’m like " where’s the Recoil? Lol
Great! Good job!
the weapons produced by beretta were spectacular, but they were used in a wrong war that the italian people did not want because it was under dictatorship
That is an amazing gun