Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to another video on ForgottenWeapons.com.
I'm Ian McCollum, and courtesy of the Morphy Auction Company
we are out here today with a Marlin/Hyde M2 submachine gun.
This is what was supposed to follow the US M1 Thompson,
but ended up getting replaced by the Grease Gun instead.
So that's enough talk, let's do a little bit of shooting.
That is a wonderfully slow and controllable submachine gun, this thing is nice.
I really like this thing. Now, was it a mistake to cancel this and use the Grease Gun instead?
Probably not, they had production problems with this. If you watch yesterday's video
you can see the entire history of where this gun came from, and why it didn't get adopted into service.
They ultimately only made about 400 of these and this is one of the very last ones.
But it was a marked improvement over the Thompson.
Alright, we'll get a little bit from behind the shoulder so you guys can see the ejection port side of the gun.
That's not too bad, hitting some bowling pins at 50 or 60 yards.
This was an accurate gun in US military testing, and I totally understand why.
It doesn't try to climb. It bounces around a little bit because the .45 calibre
cartridge gives it a little more oomph than you might get with an equivalent 9mm.
This thing's really nice.
Yeah, there we go again.
Yeah, this is a nice choice.
Well, it's been really cool getting a chance to actually put some ammo through one of the...
I think there're a half a dozen of these guns still surviving today and several of those are in museum collections.
So a really enlightening part of firearms historical research is being able to actually shoot guns like this,
and find out were they actually all that they were supposed to be. Were they good guns?
Were they not so good guns? And I'll tell you what, this one was definitely a good gun.
Had it not been for the manufacturing issues, and the fact that ... by the time this finally got into production
they'd designed something that was simpler and cheaper. And that's what the Army was more interested in,
that new gun of course being the Grease Gun.
So this ... is one of those few guns I think that really didn't get the chance that it deserved.
This was a good gun. And for reasons outside of its control it didn't actually get adopted.
So, if you're interested in this of course it is at the Morphy Auction House.
Check them out on the web, find their catalogue, take a look through.
You can find all their pictures of this as well as a whole bunch of other stuff they've got.
As usual, we'll finish it off with a 30 round mag.
Man, I really like this thing. And I hit that bowling pin too.