Best WWII automatic weapon

[Hansie Bloeckmann]

The MP-44 is the best small-arm of WW2, and it saw more action than the Owen - so if you ask me it should be on the list, but nevermind.

If I had to choose between the above I think its going to be a tie between the Thompson and MP-40.

I'd take the MP-40 slightly over the 1928A-1 Thompson, due to larger magazine capacity (32 vs. 20 rds.) and lighter weight. But I could survive in hostile territory with either weapon, given sufficient extra loaded magazines. If I had the MP-40, I would also want a Walther P-38 for common ammo- if I had the Thompson, I would want a 1911-A-1, again for common ammo.

 

[Guchi]

MP-44

 

[SaparotRob]

Thompson sub machine gun. Sergeant Saunders never ran out of ammo with it.

 

[Christopher Tarana]

I chose the Thompson Sub-Machine Gun!

Christopher Tarana

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I would hate to lug around 11 pounds though all day like that. 11lbs does not seem like a lot but the lighter the weapon the better.

My #1 guitar for over a decade was an 11-lb Les Paul, and I'm here to tell you that after a two-hour gig, even in my late twenties, my left shoulder knew it had earned my money that night.

 

[swampyankee]

Since I've never used a firearm*, I don't have a favorite. However, my father's (he served on PT boats in the Pacific) favorite automatic weapon of WW2 was the 40 mm Bofors**. He wasn't particularly fond of the Thomson SMG.

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* I neither like nor dislike guns, per se; my life just makes them totally superfluous, as I don't hunt and don't feel any particular need to "protect my home." I'm also not fond of loud noises.

** I wonder if he was thinking "go big or go home." He also got a hernia lifting the receiver out for maintenance.

 

[GrauGeist]

It's a shame the StG44 isn't on the list...

 

[Shortround6]

Since I've never used a firearm*, I don't have a favorite. However, my father's (he served on PT boats in the Pacific) favorite automatic weapon of WW2 was the 40 mm Bofors**. He wasn't particularly fond of the Thomson SMG.

If you are on a PT boat then you are using a Thomson to repel borders and it beats a Cutlass

If you are firing ship to ship (or boat to boat) and you are using a shoulder fired weapon.........................................

YOU ARE TOO DARN CLOSE!!!