{"id":15289,"date":"2016-05-16T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T20:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15289"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T20:48:24","slug":"obscure-weapons-the-standschultze-hellreigel-submachine-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/16\/obscure-weapons-the-standschultze-hellreigel-submachine-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscure Weapons: The Standschultze-Hellreigel Submachine Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15290\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/smg1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"SMG1\" width=\"620\" height=\"451\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"494a\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">The Austro-Hungarian<strong> <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Standschutze Hellriegel<\/em> <\/strong>debuted in 1915. Today the automatic, light firearm is something of a mystery.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8b3c\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">The prototype blended pistol-caliber ammunition with the firepower of a machine gun, making it one of the first weapons which could be considered a \u201csubmachine gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"34fb\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">That much, we know. The rest is\u00a0\u2026 conjecture.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4e5f\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--figure\">The images in this story come from an Austrian archive, where they all fall under the title \u201c<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Maschinengewehr des Standsch\u00fctzen Hellriegel<\/em>.\u201d The photos are dated 10.1915\u200a\u2014\u200apresumably meaning October 1915\u200a\u2014\u200aand show what appears to be a test-firing of the weapon at a shooting range.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cd61\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">The archival entry indicates that the weapon was named after someone with the second name \u201cHellriegel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"8ff8\" class=\"graf--p graf--startsWithDoubleQuote graf-after--p\">\u201c<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Standsch\u00fctzen<\/em>\u201d may refer to the designer being a member of the Austro-Hungarian reserve force, the <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Standsch\u00fctzen<\/em>, whose mission was to defend the Austrian states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg.<\/p>\n<p id=\"38bf\" class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">The <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Standschutze Hellriegel <\/em>may have been developed for this corps or by a member of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/warisboring.com\/the-standschutze-hellriegel-submachine-gun-is-a-mystery-e98f6f66fb92?mc_cid=400c167c5e&amp;mc_eid=1149a36069#.kdjzx8gbx\">War is Boring<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p graf-after--p\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austro-Hungarian Standschutze Hellriegel debuted in 1915. Today the automatic, light firearm is something of a mystery. The prototype blended pistol-caliber ammunition with the firepower of a machine gun, making it one of the first weapons which could be considered a \u201csubmachine gun.\u201d That much, we know. The rest is\u00a0\u2026 conjecture. The images in this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3900,5064,1286,4827,5660,6446,24,3545,8399],"tags":[11664,11665,3913],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}