Is this something new or something left over from the beginning of the war. Syria is known to have had a lot of MP44s stored. There were a number of soldiers who turned up quantities of them when our troops were there some time back....
Syria was one of few countries who produced ammunition for the guns post war.

Frank

 

The PLO and other factions had them in Lebanon since the very early 1970s (or earlier). The AK47 (and variants) made it obsolete even back then. Lack of ammo was a problem. You could buy one in the 70s for about $100. And of course they had the full auto capability.

 

I believe this discovery is from about a decade or more ago. He addresses it in the video. The lack of ammo will relegate it to a pile of metal and wood without ammunition to shoot. In a war zone where people are obsessed with killing each other for 'reasons', these will be of virtually no use. Mark pointed out in the video that, given what these things draw on the collector market in the US, they could sell them and buy 10 times the amount of useable weapons and ammunition with the profit from said sale. Alas, a bridge too far methinks.

 

You have a better chance at finding an original one forgotten in a cave for 80 years than a new one made by psa.

 

New ones are easy to buy from DK in the US or SSD in many other markets.

 

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I have a original MP43 in semi auto. And I use 7,92x33 kurz from PPU.

 

Funny story, a guy I knew in Pennsylvania about 15 yrs ago, told me of a 'hunting' rifle and an entire case of ammo for it.
Looked just like the ones shown above, for $600, $400 for the case of ammo. I bought the ammo, nice solid original WW2 case, sold most of the ammo in a short time!

 

Funny story, a guy I knew in Pennsylvania about 15 yrs ago, told me of a 'hunting' rifle and an entire case of ammo for it.
Looked just like the ones shown above, for $600, $400 for the case of ammo. I bought the ammo, nice solid original WW2 case, sold most of the ammo in a short time!

Reminded me of that story about 2011-2012 a woman in Connecticut brought an STG/MP43-44 to a gun buyback program with a mag in it still holding original ammo. I guess her father brought it home from the war and it sat in a closet until he passed away.

Here’s a link to the story Woman Turns in Valuable WWII Gun at Police Station Weapon Buy-Back

 

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I have a original MP43 in semi auto. And I use 7,92x33 kurz from PPU.

Die Waffenbrüder | PPU 7,92 x 33 kurz, Vollmantel 123 grs 1 Packung (20 Schuss á 1,11 €*) | online kaufen

Bei uns direkt ab Lager lieferbar. Bestmöglicher Staffelpreis bereits ab einer Packung. Die Patrone 7,92 x 33 mm kurz (auch als Pistolenpatrone 43 bekannt) wurde seinerzeit als Kompromiss zur Gewehr

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I have a original MP43 in semi auto. And I use 7,92x33 kurz from PPU.

REALLY? ONLY in Semi Auto? It's NOT an 'original' made one if ONLY in semi-auto.

 

You must not be very familiar with firearms laws in other countries. Outside the US in many cases it is acceptable to remove the full auto parts and simply block the reinstallation of the parts with a bit of weld to convert a full auto to semi auto only. The laws in the US are actually unusual in their focus on the stripped receiver as an eternal machine gun.

 

Yes Sir, it was a deactivated original Sturmgewehr. The barrel had 6 holes and both ends were closed by welding.
FA rifles are not allowed in Germany. A gunsmith in munich had a licence to replace the barrel and to convert into a semi rifle. He told me that the barrel was a former MG34 barrel.
I paid 2000€ for the deactivated rifle and 1200€ for the gunsmith.

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