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Saddam Hussein spent decades accumulating weapons of all sorts, and as you might imagine there is a wide array of obsolete and highly collectable firearms among them. I have been exchanging E-mails with a captain assigned to a SPTT (Special Police Transition Team) in Iraq. He has generously shared a few photographs of weapons found there. I know that there have been countless weapons destroyed by coalition forces either in battle or as part of the ongoing process of reducing weapons available to insurgents, but the media has no particular interest in taking note of the more interesting weapons found- -no surprise there.
I have been given permission to share the photos, and will continue to post more as they become available. Many thanks go out to the generous captain for sharing these images. I will not post his name unless I hear otherwise. Here, then, is a snippet of the last E-mail with the photos to follow:
"I have found some of the most interesting guns over here. Most all were burned and left to rust. Here is a list so far.
Vickers machine gun
Lewis machine gun
Henry martini rifle
Henry martini cadet rifle
MP 44
Bren LMG
M1919a4 (flexible and fixed models)
M2 HB (flexible and fixed models)
G3
FN/FAL
Various Mausers
Lee Enfield
M79 grenade launcher
Iranian M16
Smith and Wesson 76 submachine gun
MG42
MAG 58
And the list continues, of course I left out soviet guns (AK,RPK,PKC,DSKA)"
This is an FN from the mid-1950s with the rare spadegrips. I hate to see this one destroyed.
You have to wonder how many piles like this one there have been
You can see some .50 & .30 caliber Brownings in this shot.
I have been given permission to share the photos, and will continue to post more as they become available. Many thanks go out to the generous captain for sharing these images. I will not post his name unless I hear otherwise. Here, then, is a snippet of the last E-mail with the photos to follow:
"I have found some of the most interesting guns over here. Most all were burned and left to rust. Here is a list so far.
Vickers machine gun
Lewis machine gun
Henry martini rifle
Henry martini cadet rifle
MP 44
Bren LMG
M1919a4 (flexible and fixed models)
M2 HB (flexible and fixed models)
G3
FN/FAL
Various Mausers
Lee Enfield
M79 grenade launcher
Iranian M16
Smith and Wesson 76 submachine gun
MG42
MAG 58
And the list continues, of course I left out soviet guns (AK,RPK,PKC,DSKA)"

This is an FN from the mid-1950s with the rare spadegrips. I hate to see this one destroyed.

You have to wonder how many piles like this one there have been

You can see some .50 & .30 caliber Brownings in this shot.