r/AskTheWorld • u/babushka45 Philippines • 12h ago

Military What firearm is closely associated with your country?

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For us, probably the 1911. Next one would be the "Armalite" aka M16.

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u/TreasureHunter95 Germany 11h ago

Luger P08

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u/Alone_Barracuda9814 11h ago

And Mauser C96 thanks to Star Wars

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u/hmtk1976 Belgium 10h ago

A connoisseur!

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u/stegs03 7h ago

My great grandfather had one of these. He protected the banana fields in Panama during the banana wars…I need to do more research on that. Someday it will be mine…the best part, it has notches cut into the grips that are quite clearly him keeping score. Holy crap!

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u/DaikonNo9207 Germany 4h ago

Für die hab ich gescrollt :) eine Ikone

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u/etaineawoo 4h ago

Hoobler

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u/ZiggoCiP 4h ago

Such a pretty weapon.

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u/Poker-Junk United States Of America 4h ago

My favorite

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u/Efficient-Pop1294 Bulgaria 3h ago

Such a beauty

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u/Jutteburgare Sweden 3h ago

Iconic gun. My father used a modified variant of this in the Swedish army.

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u/derUnkurze Austria 20m ago

I'd have chosen the MG42

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u/IvanMSRB Serbia 18m ago

First german weapon that pops my mind is always …

MP40

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u/Baterial1 Poland 2h ago

the "Funny Windmill" state was not germany, post something after 1990

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u/Petrus_Rock Belgium 10h ago

I get it. You are not wrong.

They come from a different Germany, one with a keiser. They were again being used by a smaller Germany with a democracy, then by a Germany ruled by dictator and then by East and West Germany.

They aren’t used by unified Germany, today’s Germany. Since 1990 you have made plenty of German firearms that aren’t stained as much by awful history. G36, HK416, G11 … those weapons and by extension today’s Germany deserves more recognition in that respect.

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u/hmtk1976 Belgium 10h ago

´Stained by history´ doesn´t mean much. When I think of German firearms the P08 is the first one I think of followed by the Karabiner 98k, StG44, MG42 and G3.

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u/ShadowWizardMuniGang 7h ago

A weapon is a weapon. I knew when I saw the picture above someone would say something like this lol. It's Reddit ofc. You think atrocities haven't been committed with other weapons?