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Folding Submachine Gun

author Posted by:Sebastian on date Feb 26th, 2009 | filed Filed under: Gun P0rn

I thought MagPul’s folding subgun design was an original idea when they introduced the concept at SHOT 2008.  But it turns out the idea has been around for a while.  This video demonstrates an earlier folding subgun design.  Old enough there are a few transferrable ones out there.  I can’t imagine they are cheap, though:

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tag11 Responses to “Folding Submachine Gun”

  1. Tom Said,
    February 26th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    The videos giving me trouble right now for some reason, but there was a folding gun like the magpul in robocop. I’ve got the patent sitting around here somewhere.

  2. illspirit Said,
    February 26th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Isn’t this the one from Robocop?

    http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg70-e.htm

  3. Martini Said,
    February 26th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    that is just dead sexy. As for the mag pul one I would be happy with one that’t semi auto.

  4. SayUncle » Gun Porn Said,
    February 27th, 2009 at 8:21 am

    [...] Folding subgun. [...]

  5. Chuck B. Said,
    February 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Tom and illspirit:

    I think you both are referring to a firearm depicted in the 1990 movie sequel RoboCop 2, actually. There is a scene from that movie in which the preteen drug pusher boy reveals that his portable boom box unfolds like one of those “Transformer” cartoon robots to become a mini submachine gun.

    When I first saw this “transformer SMG”, I thought it was simply just Hollywood fantasy, but now I’d have to watch this scene again to see if it really was the same thing as the Ares FMG as shown on the web page link provided by illspirit, or the UC submachine as shown in the video above.

  6. John Hardin Said,
    February 27th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Ooo, want.

    “Do not fire this weapon one-handed!”

    …unless you are a T800…

  7. Steve Said,
    February 27th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    A prototype of the gun was used in Robocop 2.

  8. Chaz Said,
    February 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    You know…. there’ve been smaller submachine guns than that in the past. The Sten Gun comes to mind.

  9. UC foldable Submachine Gun | The Firearm Blog Said,
    March 1st, 2009 at 2:52 am

    [...] Snowflakes in Hell alerted me to the fact that FullAutoClassics.com are selling newly manufactured UC foldable machine guns build on pre-1986 receivers, making them fully transferable class III machine guns. The are chambered in 9mm and use UZI magazines. The gun was featured in the movie Robocop II. [...]

  10. Bill Poynter Said,
    March 1st, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    Mr Francis Warin designed a folding submachinegun that pre-dates all of the ones mentioned. He was working for Ares with Eugene Stoner, inventor of the M16. It is slimmer and more handy but it was not considered a viable gun for producition and ony two examples were made.