PieFedNever underestimate the ingenuity of the common infantryman 💪
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Explanation: The French MAS-36 rifle had a unique system for storing the bayonet, wherein the bayonet is simply reversed and inserted beneath the barrel and ‘locked’ in for storage. Efficient use of space!
However, a handful of goofing-off French infantrymen found out that the same system could be used to ‘lock’ two rifles together, and that doing so blocked the release button… making both rifles unusable without being disassembled.
Great work, GI Pierre! We salute your ingenuity in breaking guns designed to be impossible for any ordinary moron to break! o7
“being disassembled” here meant “literally drilling hole through the storage unit to push the locking stud back. The refit was (unsurprisingly) to make that hole standard.
I wonder if they unofficially named it after the moron who discovered this feature.
Maybe the design was a form of surrender
“hon hon hon, on en a fait une baguette”