peashooter85:The Frommer Stop double submachine gun,In 1917 the Hungarian part of the Austro Hungari
peashooter85:The Frommer Stop double submachine gun,In 1917 the Hungarian part of the Austro Hungarian Empire came up with this weird and bizarre World War I weapon. Called the M.1917 Frommer Stop dual submachine gun, it featured dual Frommer stop pistols mounted upside down on a special tripod. The Frommer stop pistols used were not the traditional M1912 sidearms, but instead a modified fully automatic machine pistol called the M1917 with special 25 round magazines. It was chambered in 7.65mm (.32acp).Supposedly the Frommer submachine gun was inspired by a similar Italian weapon called the Villar Perosa. I don’t know why the Hungarians would want to emulate the Villar Perosa, certainly a flawed and terrible idea. Having faced off against the Italians and their Villar Perosa submachine guns, I would think they would not be inspired to copy such a flawed weapon, but they did. The Frommer Stop submachine gun had all the same weaknesses as the Villar Perosa. It had very limited range and accuracy, was under-powered for its purpose, was too small to be a machine gun, yet too unwieldy to be a submachine gun. The Frommer Stop submachine was later deemed inadequate for military needs, thus they were only produced in limited numbers.I forgot how ridiculous this thing is. -- source link