What do these rifles have in common?

[Ian]

This shouldn't take long for someone to figure out...but I'll bet there aren't many photos out there of all of these guns together. You could buy a nice house for the cost of these particular guns...

 

[Vaarok]

Roller delayed bolt mechanism.

 

[Ian]

Alright hotshot, can you identify them all (without looking at the blog post)?

 

[gunnutery]

What do these rifles have in common?

They all live in a free state (the SBR tipped me off).

 

[dho3]

Could not have gotten that in a million years. What are they?

 

[Sav .250]

Looks to me like you`ve got the "home defense" thing figured out.

 

[mcdonl]

Guns rich people collect?

 

[frankenstein406]

There all sitting in your unfinished basement? Make sure to wire up the wall plug in good, so they don't go poof.

 

[Ian]

Gunnutery - Actually, the Mp5 is a machine gun, not an SBR.

I don't want to give this away yet (though they're all identified on the blog post, if you follow the picture link) - I'll just say that this particular selection was chosen specifically, and there is some historical significance to each one.

So the challenge stands - who can identify them?

BTW, they are in an unfinished workshop, not basement - it's the best photo background we had available.

 

[Rubber_Duck]

They're all German?

 

[Ian]

Nope, not quite.

 

[Rubber_Duck]

Oops, I forgot the CETME is a Spanish rifle. Are the rest German?

 

[Ian]

Everything else is German except the CZ52 pistol.

 

[mcdonl]

They all have iron sights.

 

[rja1]

Guns that make liberals crazy?

bob

 

[Carter]

They've all had a counterpart that has seen combat?

They all signify that you ha e way more money than me?

hot...cold...?

 

[Ian]

I took the photo, but alas I don't own the guns myself (that's at least $150,000 worth there).

For a hint, I'll say that the MG42 was the first significant roller-locked firearm, and the CETME was the major post-WWII development of the roller locked system. But what happened in between?

 

[KParms]

I'm pretty sure the K43 & G43 use retracting bolt lugs, and not roller locking.

 

[Ian]

You are correct - the rifle on the left is not a K43/G43.

 

[KParms]

Never mind. Forgot about the CZ.

 

[jerkface11]

AG42,VZ52, Two different STG's, a CTME , a G3, I think a G41, an MP5, MG42 and a CZ52.

 

[Ian]

You've got the right side, but not the left. Think roller locked, and do some deep digging.

 

[jerkface11]

If it's not an AG42 it's a Hakim.

 

[KParms]

Gerat-something?

 

[earlthegoat2]

Gerat 04, 05, 06.

2 of those three.

I dont know which.

The STG type rifles, are they STGs or something else based on the design. I dont know of an STG with stamped components. Of course I have heard of but never seen a picture of a STG 45. Maybe..