The Owen gun, known officially as the Owen machine carbine, was an Australian submachine gun that was designed by Evelyn Owen in 1938. The Owen was the only entirely Australian …

2013年3月25日 · The Owen gun story begins with a young 23-year-old Evelyn Owen and his incessant tinkering with guns. In 1938 he perfected (well, sort of) a homemade full auto …

firing of the Owen gun. The Owen gun took a circuitous path to approval and production but eventually reached frontline troops and more than 50,000 were manufactured. Following the …

2023年2月28日 · The Owen gun was equipped by the Australian Army from 1942-71. During the Second World War, it was primarily used by troops fighting the Guadalcanal and Solomon …

Firing accurately and without stoppages the simple construction of barrel, bolt, spring, pistol grip, one bent piece of bent steel for a stock and operated by the recoil of each shot, the Owen Gun …

The firearm designed by the untutored Evelyn Owen is casually described in the official Commonwealth history Australia in the 1939-45 War as “a very light machine gun firing a pistol …

The Owen has a simple blowback design, firing from an open bolt. It was designed to be fired either from the shoulder or the hip. It is easily recognisable, owing to its unconventional …

The Owen Gun, which was known officially as the Owen Machine Carbine, was an Australian submachine gun designed by Evelyn (Evo) Owen in 1939. The Owen was the only Australian …

2023年2月21日 · Back during WWII when gun designers were crafting such conventional weapons as the German MP-40, America’s M-3 Grease Gun, the Russian PPSh, and the …

2013年3月25日 · The Owen gun story begins with a young 23-year-old Evelyn Owen and his incessant tinkering with guns. In 1938 he perfected (well, sort of) a homemade full auto …