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Old 10-08-2010, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Excalibur View Post
Well it was called MP, meaning machine pistol to disguise it from Hitler because he didn't like the idea of the ammo that it used...until he saw it in action and renamed it the "Storm Rifle".
Uh, not Storm rifle. Even though in Germanic Dictionaries, the noun for Sturm can mean "storm/Gale/Tempest" it also means "attack or Assault". Everyone assumed Hitler meant "Assault" not "bad weather" when he named the rifle.....
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