</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by riffraff:
<strong>Japanese medium and heavy maching guns were decent. All other small arms used by them were and are JUNK, and ugly, and underpowered. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Mike, no offense, but I get tired of hearing this. The Japanese guns are not junk and in fact, fairly well made, it is one of those myths carried over from WW2 vets. There are uglier guns around and less powerful ones, such as the 32 acp. It is not a very powerful round, yet was carried by many countries in Europe, so the 8mm is not a bad round, just not made in bulk. After WW2, I have heard it was hard to get 9MM and that some shooters had their barrels changed on their Lugers to 7.65mm, because it was more common, yet now the 9mm is one of the top selling rounds.
No flames intended, and yes, I like the Luger better, but the Nambu shoots nice also,
Ed