Most American service gun!

[bbuddtec]

Another for Ma Deuce

 

[sublimaze41]

Love the Garand but the 1911 just smells American.

 

[Gig 'em]

Gotta love a Ma Deuce. She just makes me smile.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Gotta love a Ma Deuce. She just makes me smile.

Me, too -- I commanded a Mechanized Rifle Company (A-1/61 IN) in Viet Nam. Getting into action with all those Ma Deuces is a blast!!

 

[GCBurner]

The Pennsylvania or Kentucky Long Rifle was the original All American gun, both in war and peace. That's why the Army uses it on the Combat Infantry badge.

 

[Crash_Test_Dhimmi]

The Makarov

JK

1911 All the way

 

[50 cal]

Shot my ma deuce today. Every time is like the first time. I found out what a troy built push mower engine looks like 30 feet in the air after an api round hits it. Lots of fun.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

This one about sizes up the good old USA: The M2 Browning .50 BMG. Been in service longer than ANY US military weapon, and still going. It's tough, goes anywhere, and kickss ass, just like our country and our military. Beat that!

 

[northark147]

+1 for Ma-Duece... Its the biggest, Its the baddest

on the down side

Its known to get itself in a jam every now and then AND

is there one that weighs about 500 pounds and cant be moved from in front of the television?

I say it comes pretty close in some configurations.

Can it please get added to the poll so I can vote...

 

[Stevie-Ray]

1911 for sure. But as a close second, I'd have to go with Ma Deuce. I really want one badly.

 

[Cosmoline]

The Pennsylvania or Kentucky Long Rifle was the original All American gun, both in war and peace. That's why the Army uses it on the Combat Infantry badge.

Actually that is a Springfield Arsenal Musket M1795, and not a rifle at all.

http://www.army.mil/symbols/CombatBadges/infantry.html

But certainly if we're talking about non-issued firearms the long rifle is hugely significant. Technically though it's a hunting arm used in war, and not a service weapon per se. In some respects though what could be more American than having the most American service gun not be a service issued firearm at all, but one brought by men of peace to stop the Redcoats in the War of Independence and 1812? Is the idea of a military issued firearm even really American?

 

[Ignition Override]

At least one person here feels that the country which produced the M-1 Garand during WW2 (and many Mosin Nagants during WW1, under contract) might need a memory refresher.
This nation also lost many merchant seaman steaming around Murmansk- to German "U-boats"- while supplying shiploads of guns and some P-39 Aircobra aircraft etc to its besieged ally.

 

[50 cal]

As much as I love my ma deuce, I have to agree that the kentuckey long rifle is the most american service rifle, and will always be. On second thought, any weopon that was used in those days to win our freedom deserves credit. Swordes,knives,rocks,etc.

 

[merlinfire]

Its got to be the 1911, especially if you take into account length of service (its still in service in some units). No other long arm or handgun even comes close

 

[Vern Humphrey]

Another problem with the militia was lack of standardization. How can you resupply a regiment with ammunition when every man has a different caliber gun?