WW2 German MP-40 Machine Pistol

The War Years Shop In this video we feature the famous WWII German MP40 machine pistol. In 1940, German arms manufacturer Erfurter Maschinenfabrik GmbH, better known as Erma was at work on a submachine gun for the German military, the Maschinenpistole Modell 40 better known as the MP40. The German army was in need of a lightweight, portable automatic weapon with low production costs to replace its earlier models MP36 and MP38. The year of the weapon’s production, 1940, gav