cluttonfred
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Well, as you have seen in some of my other threads, I like those funny-looking Australian Owen SMGs with the top-mounted magazines, which got me thinking, what other guns have used top-mounted magazines and why?
There's the crazy Villar Perosa double gun (originally meant for shooting at aircraft with a weak 9mm pistol cartridge, believe it or not) and the Beretta Modello 1918 SMGs made from remanufactured Villar Perosas. And there's the Pedersen device to turn a Springfield rifle into the world's biggest SMG.
There's the Bren LMG, and it's Czech forefather, and a number of other LMGs like Madsens and a French one and even recent Stoner SAW-type configurations. The LMG seems to about the only category of gun in which top-mounted magazines could be called anything like common, I imagine because the top-mounted magazine facilitated two-man magazine changes for sustained fire and, like the Owen, helped reliability by letting any dirt that gets in fall right back out.
More recently there are a couple of bullpup rifles with horizontal magazines across the top of the barrel, like the H&K G11 and FN P90.
How about it? Besided the LMGs, can anyone think of any other rifles, SMGs, pistols or shotguns with Owen-style top-mounted magazines?
There's the crazy Villar Perosa double gun (originally meant for shooting at aircraft with a weak 9mm pistol cartridge, believe it or not) and the Beretta Modello 1918 SMGs made from remanufactured Villar Perosas. And there's the Pedersen device to turn a Springfield rifle into the world's biggest SMG.
There's the Bren LMG, and it's Czech forefather, and a number of other LMGs like Madsens and a French one and even recent Stoner SAW-type configurations. The LMG seems to about the only category of gun in which top-mounted magazines could be called anything like common, I imagine because the top-mounted magazine facilitated two-man magazine changes for sustained fire and, like the Owen, helped reliability by letting any dirt that gets in fall right back out.
More recently there are a couple of bullpup rifles with horizontal magazines across the top of the barrel, like the H&K G11 and FN P90.
How about it? Besided the LMGs, can anyone think of any other rifles, SMGs, pistols or shotguns with Owen-style top-mounted magazines?