You know how in the movie Roadhouse people repeatedly say to Dalton, “I thought you’d be taller?” Well perhaps the most frequent comment we get from older military guys has to do with our hoses, or our Mac-10 “hose” submachineguns. Anybody with experience firing and maintaining a Mac-10 says something like, “Your guns must jam a lot.”
Well yes, factory-standard Mac-10’s do like to jam a lot. In fact, when our team was first offered a modified Mac-10 as our primary weapon, there was much laughing involved. A jammed gun means we get eaten by the bad guys. We laughed quite a bit at this poor sales rep who brought this new invention based on an outdated gun with a bad reputation.
Then one of our guys test fired it, and everyone shut up.
You see, our Mac-10’s aren’t factory-standard. They may resemble the stamped metal Mac-10’s from over forty years ago, but each one is modern and hand-built. The insides have completely different guts, and employ such crazy things as glass and ceramics. You’d think glass and ceramic materials would be too fragile for such a weapon, but these technologies can easily handle the workload. In fact, not only do our guns rarely jam, the cyclic rates are increased over the factory models.
Check out this dated video to see the factory model Mac-10 (and Mac-11). Now imagine ours having over three times as many bullets, a forward firing handle (so you can fire it with your front or back hand), and a suppressor that makes the thing awfully quiet.
For a better idea of how many rounds these hoses throw downrange, check out this video from the madman Dmitri over at FPSRussia — he’s firing two Mac-10’s at the same time.