Slow Motion: Swiss LMG-25
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I had a cool Swiss viewer named Bjoern kindly send me this footage of a Swiss LMG25 machine gun firing - thanks, Bjoern! These guns are very rare in the US, and the only one I've been able to handle was in Europe. If I can ever get my hands on one myself, I will make some video with my Edgertronic high speed camera, but this footage is a great look at the gun until that is possible.
If you are not familiar with the LMG-25, you should check out my overview video of the gun from a couple years ago.
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