{"id":29084,"date":"2026-03-09T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/madsen-model-1945-a-rather-unusual-smg\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:01:34","slug":"madsen-model-1945-a-rather-unusual-smg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/madsen-model-1945-a-rather-unusual-smg\/","title":{"rendered":"Madsen Model 1945: A Rather Unusual SMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9SSeCPbDoU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Check out the Forgotten Weapons shop for everything from fun memes to serious kit:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of World War Two, the Danish Madsen company wanted to replace its production of licensed Suomi submachine guns with a design of its own. The result was the Model 1945, a quite unusual design with a pistol-like slide. The nearest similarities would be the Polish PM-63 and the German VG1-5. The Madsen design also used an unusual hammer firing system. It was chambered for 9mm Parabellum, feeding from Suomi box magazines (not drums). Both a fixed wooden stock version (seen here) and a folding stock version were made, but only a few sales came through (apparently to Mexico and El Salvador).<\/p>\n<p>Danish M1941 Madsen video:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hjs1uiAIpNQ\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/hjs1uiAIpNQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Madsen M1950 video:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/95YPVQR_7yw\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/95YPVQR_7yw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the Forgotten Weapons shop for everything from fun memes to serious kit:http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com At the end of World War Two, the Danish Madsen company wanted to replace its production of licensed Suomi submachine guns with a design of its own. The result was the Model 1945, a quite unusual design with a pistol-like slide.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/madsen-model-1945-a-rather-unusual-smg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madsen Model 1945: A Rather Unusual SMG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":29085,"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-29084","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\/29084","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=29084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}