M3 Grease Gun

[StevenO]

Firearms are not my field of interest, but I have a couple of things I picked up here and there, most of them are in really bad shape got this at the same time I got a .30 tripod, the Grease Gun is in really bad shape and the whole trigger part is missing, someone told me that this was often done when a weapon had to be disregarded and left behind. This could fit because it was found in the northern part of Luxembourg. Hope this is of some intersest to some of you.

Steven

[StevenO]

Parts

As you can see the trigger is missing

[StevenO]

Parts II

Well the trigger is there but the housing of the trigger is missing

[daisycutter416]

IMO it would be going much faster to unscrew the barrel and throw it away, then disamble the triggerhouse...

[MikeP]

IMO it would be going much faster to unscrew the barrel and throw it away, then disamble the triggerhouse...

Been a few years since I handled one of these but I believe there was just a little clip or something similar you pulled loose and the trigger/retracting group came off in one piece.
Crude pieces but reliable and effective-slow rate of fire-very controllable

[Matt Wilson]

daisy & Mike,

I'm w/you guys on this. Looks like someone just lost the housing w/the charging handle from this M3. Someone intentionally disabling the weapon would have had an easier time just unscrewing the barrel & chucking it in the weeds, along w/the bolt/guide assembly which would drop out.

I'm no historian, but I am not aware of any ETO engagement in which US forces were overwhelmed so severely that they were reduced to rendering their PERSONAL WEAPONS inoperative, & that late in the war, weren't the Germans more inclined to USE captured armaments - or at least study them - than destroy them?

As I say, I am NOT a historian. I hope folks can offer insight & make me a little smarter.

Best,
Matt