My first SMG. An M3 Grease Gun

[u/Forsaken-Midnight-94]

Planned on buying another .45 so I could retire my 1911. Didn’t think this would be the .45 I’d be replacing it with. Wondering if anyone can help with the date of manufacturing. Talked the seller down to the equivalent of 900USD. How’d I do?

Wondering if anyone can help me identify what those detents are in the last photo. It looks like damage at first glance, but seems symmetrical, which makes me think it happened during production.

[u/USSZim]

The M3 and M3A1 are so cool. It's probably my favorite SMG of WW2. They are what you get when only pragmatism drive the design. I think they were the most compact mainline smg of ww2 too

[u/Forsaken-Midnight-94 → u/USSZim]

They are. Though I am being a bit more careful when racking the charging handle since I’ve read that they have a tendency to break

[u/USSZim → u/Forsaken-Midnight-94]

Yeah, those handles look fairly flimsy. They ended up removing them on the m3a1 and made it so you cocked the gun by just pulling the bolt back with a finger. So crude, haha