{"id":7755,"date":"2019-10-05T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/05\/marlin-m2-at-the-range-a-remarkably-nice-smg\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:32:42","slug":"marlin-m2-at-the-range-a-remarkably-nice-smg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/05\/marlin-m2-at-the-range-a-remarkably-nice-smg\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlin M2 at the Range: A Remarkably Nice SMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nynxl9bgy9Q?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s history and disassembly, I had a chance to take the Hyde\/Marlin M2 submachine gun out to the range today for some test firing. It is a remarkably nice gun to use &#8211; with a good in-line stock design and low rate of fire, it was extremely controllable. Better than both the Thompson (in any of its forms) and the M3 Grease Gun, in my opinion. I think this is one of a very small number of guns which were actually really excellent despite being cancelled or abandoned before seeing substantial military service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday&#8217;s history and disassembly, I had a chance to take the Hyde\/Marlin M2 submachine gun out to the range today for some test firing. It is a remarkably nice gun to use &#8211; with a good in-line stock design and low rate of fire, it was extremely controllable. Better than both the Thompson (in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/05\/marlin-m2-at-the-range-a-remarkably-nice-smg\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marlin M2 at the Range: A Remarkably Nice SMG<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7756,"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-7755","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\/7755","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=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions\/13384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}