New Zealand made MP38

[Australia]

Not sure if you guys have seen this New Zealand made MP38 that was reversed engineered from a captured german MP38 during WW2 , it's now located at Waiouru military museum in NZ

[Gunny Hartmann]

Cheers for sharing, i didn't know this existed!...

[lebus12]

Nice! It's seems the bakelit is different.

MP38 - Die Maschinenpistole 40

[TrondK]

Very interesting!!!

Thanks Sir

[Glenn66]

What was the purpose? Evaluation? Training? Or was there a plan to manufacture and use the weapon?

[harryamb2]

they did a great job.

[AZPhil]

Very Cool copy.
Thanks for sharing that pic.
Semper Fi
Phil

[severin]

Thank you for posting this.
Very interesting and I also had never heard of this.
Guessing it's also in 9mm.
I bet it's worth a bob or two!

Jonathan.

[Australia]

Thanks gents , Not sure why they made it to be honest .

[TrondK]

Most likely an experiment to see if they could produce this weapon quicker and better than the ones they already were using. In a war, speed and quality is important.

Most likely they didnt produce them because of the mag sticking down. Even the germans favored the ppsh over the Schmeisser.