Erma EMP: Heinrich Vollmer's Interwar Submachine Gun

I understand the SS used these until the MP 38 came out....

I love the simple flip up sights, tho I'm guessing it (among other things) was flawed in during a Russian winter assault

I love interwar stuff. Erma EMP, MP-28, KP-31, Thompson 1928, ZK-383, MP-34, MP-35, MP-38, the early Beretta 38's... all so sexy.

Interwar SMG's are cool. They basically fall into that short time slot when gunmakers saw what had been created in the first world war and tried to improve on it in every way they could think of. That often led to features which were absolutely unnecessary, but I guess the mentale was that any little advantage they can give soldiers might make a difference. Once WW2 started all those notions were quickly dispensed of; a gun just needs to be good enough to meet a certain threshold where it is not completely outperformed by what the enemy has, then it's a matter of how many can be produced and how fast. This lesson carried over into post-war SMG's, which pretty much never returned to the high-quality, machined parts, over-engineered, elegantly finished days of gun making. Even the arguably nicest SMG of the modern era, the MP5 is still very utilitarian in it's design by comparison to what was being made in the interwar period.

This thing decades ahead of it's time

That gun has a really good albeit weird and convoluted backstory behind. Gotta tell my grandkids in the future "there's one time a bunch of guns were sold by germany, made & used in spain, confiscated by the french, & ended up back to germany.

¡No pasaran!

That's literally PPSH-41 copy and the difference is it has Wooden grip attached to it and it has different location of the magazine -_-

It seems like some of the best made SMGs were from that interwar period before they all became stamped sheet metal. I understand why the change was made of course but given the choice who wouldn't prefer a milled gun to a stamped one.

That takedown lever worries me. It seems like it would be relatively easy to engage it while shooting and spontaneously disassemble the gun, especially without a lot of training.

Im gonna use a Erma EMP while listening to EDM music on a Samsung S 10

I know, it's hard for anglophonic speakers, but the name is "Follmer", not "Wollmer". It's the same phenomenon like in "Volkswagen", it's pronounced with "f". There are some historic reasons for this in German, even Germans get confused about this, before they attend school. But everything else in this vid is pronounced very good.

In the 1873 book "Pictorial History of the Sub-machinegun", it was noted that on 4 May 1939 the British Director of Artillery wrote to the Ordnance Board saying "although we are not particularly interested in this type of weapon, (Erma EMP) in view of the fact 1000 of this make could be procured at very short notice, we would like it to be investigated". Britain went to war with Germany in Sept 1939. The British had a few trial SMG, but no SMG in service. They could have had 1000 Erma EMP, had they moved quicker.

Its got a German dong

the emp at home:

First time knew this gun was from BFV

does anyone know what the rifle on the far right, on the rack in the background is?

Das Original Dong.

I think wooden foregrips are really cool

Your pronunciation is getting better and better ... however:
German smart-ass-mode on:
It's "PistolE", not "Pistol". The E is not silent. Another example: The Artillery Luger is called the "LangE PistolE". Neither E is silent. In the case of "lange", leaving out the E would make it doubly false, since that E denotes the gender of the word "Pistole" (female). The male version would be "langer".
The V in "Vollmer" is pronounced pretty much like the English "F" in ...er.. the F-word. Not like the soft English "V" in, say, veal.

Damn I'd consider a magazine at the position of the front grip as placed very far away and wasting space and barrel length... But this one 😂😅

The semi-auto selector together with the progressive trigger is interesting.

Republicans.... they are communists. Spanish Civil War.

Even before watching the video and knowing nothing about the gun (or that it even existed) It's very 1910-1940 looking.

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What is that funky looking thing in the background first one from right?

Slightly off topic: my local gun store has a Burgess Folding Shotgun for sale.

Vollmer was also, allegedly, responsible for developing the Vampyr night-sight, as well as doing work on the MP-38/MP-40. Schmeisser got "credit" because he had his name stamped on the magazines for royalties.

ERMA GOD! I totally missed this video.

How is that Calico coming on?

An EMP weapon is the best weapon against a terminator or against any robot trying to kill you. Very advanced for the '30s.

I like this series about submachine guns

There is a game called "Cuisine Royale" who have a lot of this kind of weapons that are maybe never heared before.

Clever trigger

His Name is pronounced "Follmer" because of the German V is pronounced pFffh, also why VW is called a "pFolks Wahgung" when spelling it phonetically

Looking forward to your NEW series, The Guns of Peak Blinders. An excellent series with lots of sex and violence. Game of thrones with no dragons but plenty of weapons.

Anyone know what that rifle is behind Ian on the right side of the screen?

I love that Gun

A couple of times over on the WW2 channel there's been a picture of a German soldier carrying one of these on the eastern front circa 1941.

A very pretty angry tube... Yet very safe.

Johnson LMG behind him.

Very Cool Submachine Gun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Interesting looking assault rifle on the backround at the right.

The little dong

Where my battlefield 5 players at? Lol

As used in battlefield 5.

I will never get used to the way the fore-grip looks.