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"Surely no one would be dumb enough to try to connect the bayonet lugs on two rifles." Bored soldiers:
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Explanation: The post-WW2 French rifle MAS-49 had a bayonet mechanism that 'locked' the bayonet in place. Unfortunately, it was just the right size to 'lock' another MAS-49 bayonet inside (thanks to Tar_Alcaran for the correction), so if you got it in that position, you'd have to send both rifles back to the factory to get it unborked. Usage not as intended!
They stored the bayonet inside the lug, back to front. You could pull it out, flip it, and slide it into the same hole pointy-end-forward.
You could disengage the connection from the back of the bayonet when it was stored, or from the front when it was deployed.
Which made every bayonet a male-male connector for two rifles. And since it was now in both the stored AND deployed positions, the only way to remove it was to drill a hole into the gun.
First, thats amazing.
Second, I misread MAS as MAT, and two dinky stamped smgs with bayonets, locked together like middle schoolers with braces, is even funnier.
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