Full Auto Friday: The Grease Guns of Indy (VIDEOS)

By Chris Eger

Your normal M3 Grease Gun is very compact but a bit louder than this one (Photos: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
While walking around the 148th NRA Annual Meetings in Indianapolis last week, we stumbled upon a sweet M3 Grease Gun with a giant can.
The M3 was the U.S. Army’s stab at a cheaper alternative to the Auto-Ordnance Thompson submachine gun during World War II and got its nickname for its easy resemblance to a mechanic’s grease gun. The gun not only replaced the Thompson in U.S. service but also remained in use with Army armored crews through the Cold War.
Out of production since the early 1950s, it was unusual to stumble upon an M3 at a gunmaker’s booth in 2019, until you realize who had it. Joe Meaux with Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s Aklys Defense had the suppressed M3 along with a similarly be-quieted BREN gun on hand to the great interest of attendees.

This guy:

Meaux and Aklys are the people behind the integrally suppressed Velociraptor AK as well as other, more dubious creations while taking time out to help with local military museums.
The M3 of Meaux’s uses a suppressor that is an homage to the gun’s use by the OSS in WWII.

And a lot

Source: Guns.com