{"id":30919,"date":"2026-11-11T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/og-44-a-really-excellent-italian-last-ditch-smg\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:00:24","slug":"og-44-a-really-excellent-italian-last-ditch-smg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/og-44-a-really-excellent-italian-last-ditch-smg\/","title":{"rendered":"OG-44: A Really Excellent Italian Last-Ditch SMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QA5cPly67is?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Small Arms of WWII: USA&#8221; at Headstamp Publishing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/ww2-usa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/ww2-usa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>L4 Field Shirt Varusteleka: <a href=\"https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en-us\/products\/varusteleka-l4-1-field-shirt\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en-us\/products\/varusteleka-l4-1-field-shirt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The OG-44 is an Italian late-war submachine gun designed by one Giovanni Oliani at the Armaguerra factory in Cremona. It is a revision on Oliani&#8217;s earlier 1942 design, changed to use standard Beretta 38 magazines. Only 14 of these guns were made, and the quality of their manufacture is excellent. Unlike most late-war weapon designs, the OG-44 is quite well conceived, and could probably have been a real contender in the post-war arms market had the factory survived. It is a simple blowback open-bolt 9mm, with a large bolt mass telescoped forward like the Czech SA23 and Uzi. The stampings are well made, the controls refined, and the folding stock design well devised.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Beretta for giving me access to this very rare example from their reference museum to show to film for you!<\/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<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Small Arms of WWII: USA&#8221; at Headstamp Publishing: https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/ww2-usa L4 Field Shirt Varusteleka: https:\/\/varusteleka.com\/en-us\/products\/varusteleka-l4-1-field-shirt The OG-44 is an Italian late-war submachine gun designed by one Giovanni Oliani at the Armaguerra factory in Cremona. It is a revision on Oliani&#8217;s earlier 1942 design, changed to use standard Beretta 38 magazines. Only 14 of these guns were&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/og-44-a-really-excellent-italian-last-ditch-smg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OG-44: A Really Excellent Italian Last-Ditch SMG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30919","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\/30919","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=30919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}