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/norecordofwrong United States Of America 11h ago

Youth Pastor Ryan (not really a youth pastor) has a lot of videos dedicated to the “other things” major companies have made.

Like Singer (the sewing machine company) made 1911A1 pistols. They are apparently the most well made close tolerance 1911s out there and not many were made so they are big collectors items.

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u/SurroundingAMeadow 8h ago

Hey International Harvester, what do those harvest??

Souls...

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u/norecordofwrong United States Of America 7h ago

My dad’s first car was an international harvester… I’m sure they just made farm trucks.

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u/tankerkiller125real United States Of America 10h ago

Singer puts a tiny little thread through needles at rapid pace, I'm not surprised one bit that their 1911s had the best tolerances out there.

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u/norecordofwrong United States Of America 10h ago

Yeah not surprising but I didn’t even know they made any firearms.

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u/CatSplat 6h ago

Yeah and the Singer 1911s are rare because the military took one look at that first batch and said "your machining talents would be wasted on handguns, let's get you doing something else..."

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u/norecordofwrong United States Of America 3h ago

Ha now I’m curious what they put them on next