America’s Forgotten SMG - Reising M50 From WWII

In this video, we talk about an often overlooked US military submachinegun used in World War II. The Reising M50 and its folding stock counterpart the M55 were issued in relatively large numbers and saw heavy fighting in 1942 and 1943. Originally the SMG was created to be a lighter, more compact, more accurate, and less expensive alternative to the famous Thompson. The thing is, the Reising ended up being all of those things, so what went wrong? Why was its military service so brief and why is it all but f