What was the best gun in world war 2?

Answer 1

The best rifle issued as a standard weapon to infantry was the US M-1 Garand, a gas-operated semi-automatic 30-06, with an eight shot magazine. When the last shot was fired the empty clip ejected automatically and the bolt stayed back, so the soldier had only to insert a fresh clip, and get his thumb out of the way, because the bolt would automatically travel forward and pick up the top cartridge of the new clip as soon as the clip was seated, and the piece was loaded and ready to fire. Every other nation began the war with the same bolt-action rifle they had used in the First World War, and most used that weapon to the end. The Germans did develop the very first assault rifle, the Sturmgewehr 43, from which the Soviets were inspired to borrow heavily to create the AK-47. But relatively few of these were made and most German troops soldiered on to the end with their Model 1898 bolt action, five shot magazine Mausers. This was a fine rifle, and had been also the standard weapon of WWI. The Germans had the best machine gun, the MG 34, later modified into the easier to produce MG 43, and copied after the war by the US, to produce the M 60, which until very recently was the standard infantry machine gun of US forces. The best submachine gun (sometimes also called machine pistols, because, though shoulder weapons, they fired pistol cartridges) was probably the German "Schmeisser", or "burp gun", the MP 38/40. This fired the 9MM parabellum cartridge, as did most German pistols, the same cartridge so beloved by gangsters today.