• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    4 months ago

    Explanation: The post-WW2 French rifle MAS-49 had a bayonet mechanism that ‘locked’ the bayonet in place. Unfortunately, it was just the right size to ‘lock’ another MAS-49 bayonet inside (thanks to Tar_Alcaran for the correction), so if you got it in that position, you’d have to send both rifles back to the factory to get it unborked. Usage not as intended!

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      They stored the bayonet inside the lug, back to front. You could pull it out, flip it, and slide it into the same hole pointy-end-forward.

      You could disengage the connection from the back of the bayonet when it was stored, or from the front when it was deployed.

      Which made every bayonet a male-male connector for two rifles. And since it was now in both the stored AND deployed positions, the only way to remove it was to drill a hole into the gun.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      4 months ago

      First, thats amazing.

      Second, I misread MAS as MAT, and two dinky stamped smgs with bayonets, locked together like middle schoolers with braces, is even funnier.