{"id":12225,"date":"2013-06-23T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/23\/madsen-semiauto-lmg\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:30:42","slug":"madsen-semiauto-lmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/23\/madsen-semiauto-lmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Madsen Semiauto LMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9qbbr-_QdyY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Madsen light machine gun is note-worthy for several reasons &#8211; it was the first military-issue light machine gun developed and it was successful enough to remain in production into the 1950s (long after every WWI-era machine gun was long out of production). It was also one of the most usual machine gun mechanisms ever successfully designed &#8211; one of the early &#8220;what if we try this?&#8221; sorts of mechanisms that actually worked quite well. You probably saw the video of me running a Madsen in a 2-gun match last week, and the reason I actually had the gun on hand was to do a more academic video on its history and function. So if you have always been confused about that the heck is going on inside that mechanism, grab a cup of coffee and let me walk you through it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madsen light machine gun is note-worthy for several reasons &#8211; it was the first military-issue light machine gun developed and it was successful enough to remain in production into the 1950s (long after every WWI-era machine gun was long out of production). It was also one of the most usual machine gun mechanisms ever&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/23\/madsen-semiauto-lmg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madsen Semiauto LMG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15866,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions\/15866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}