M50 reising submachine gun

[8guage]

the reising submachine was used in the pacific theater during world war 2.The "paramarines" (a short lived marine paratroop division) were armed with these submachine guns.check out the specs of this infamous gun at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reising

 

[Jim K]

IIRC, that unit was also armed with Johnson rifles. They liked the Johnsons, hated the Reisings.

Jim

 

[M2 Carbine]

We had a little machine gun shoot a while back.

An old fellow had a Reising submachine gun that he had bought, brand new when they were still made and sold to civilians.
(he also had a FA 45 Mac 10 with the original box and silencer)

The darned Reising jammed on us almost every magazine.

The bolt would jam pretty good on me. I think he had a couple really bad mags.

 

[Lone Star]

The Marines on Guadacanal hated the Resings, too.

Lone Star

 

[craig101]

you can tell that old fellow i will pay him $2k for that jam-o-matic reising.

you gotta watch it on a bad jam. i recently bought a M50 and it had jammed so bad, the ejector broke somehow. thats a bad jam.

 

[M2 Carbine]

craig101
you can tell that old fellow i will pay him $2k for that jam-o-matic reising.
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Craig, he's pretty old but he isn't senile yet.

The gun looked like new. I'll bet he's shot it very little.
While we were running a lot of ammo through my M2 and a UZI, MP40 and a few others he shot his Mac 10 and Reising very little.

 

[craig101]

i just bought a minty M50 for $2k. just needs a new ejector. it has a pennsylvania state police property sticker on the stock as well.

i'm in a C&R only state, so i have a SW76, the M50 coming in and a savage '28 thompson.

 

[bogie]

The Reising was a "nice" buzzgun. Tight tolerances, etc... Gotta keep it cleaned and oiled, or it's gonna give you trouble.

Now, the grease gun will run all day long...

 

[M2 Carbine]

Well that's interesting craig.
The way that FA prices have been going up I thought the Reisings were bringing more than $2,000.

But then I don't keep up with the market, I have no idea what my M2 Carbine (conversion) is bringing.

 

[Joe Demko]

The police department my dad worked for when I was a kid had a Reising in their armory. In all the years they had it, I'd be surprised if it had more than a couple hundred rounds put through it. It wasn't a reliability issue, AFAIK. The Chief, and then his successor, just wasn't comfortable with the idea of full-auto at annual qualification.
That Reising, along with some other pretty surprising goodies, got sold off in the late '80s to fund other more immediately useful items.

 

[M2 Carbine]

It's surprising what you hear about old police depts having SMG from way back when.

Just last week I heard about an old LEO that said they were offered brand new M1 Thompsons and a handfull of stick mags for $80. He said he and a few others bought them, but $80 was a lot of money back in the 30's or whenever.

 

[LeonCarr]

The department I used to work for had a Reising. Fun, but you had to keep it clean.


Just my .02,
LeonCarr

 

[Joe Demko]

Same department also had a bunch of lever action rifles in .32 special, an M-16, a Crossman tranquilizer gun, a Thompson, several tear gas launchers whose make I disremember, and a great huge pile of SW and Colt .38 specials, among other things. This is just the stuff I remember seeing on the couple times I was allowed to peek into the vault.

 

[reagansquad]

That sure is a pretty firearm... Even if it's kind of junky, I think it's totally beautiful.

 

[SMLE]

My Father was a Marine in WWII. He told me that they hated the Reisings until somebody figured out that the magazines were a little too wide. The cartridges would jam beside each other. The fix was to have the Sea Bees roll a groove down one side of the mag. This cost two rounds capacity, but made for nearly faultless feeding. I got to shoot a Reising that had "fixed" mags and it was a real doll.