Finding the Lewis Gun

It is time to take a journey with the Nelson family to find the holy grail of machine guns; the Lewis Gun. Discover how this down to earth suburban family tries to fulfill their dream of shooting one of the deadliest weapons of of World War I.

Here we have a short documentary about my family's favorite machine gun. I made this film due to my fascination with firearms and as a counter-attack
to anti-gun activists. For the activists, here is our side of the story.
Enjoy. (approx. 24 min.)
Dir. Mike P. Nelson

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• lewis
• gun
• machine
• finding
• documentary
• anti-gun
• firearms
• counter
• family
• history
• shooting
• comedy
• funny

[tigertank557]

omg i love guns a ton were u find a shooting range that kets u shoot machine guns!

[randomcreatureface]

@tigertank557 there was a machine gun shoot they had all the time up in princeton, mn but a few years back they shut it down cuz some guy blew his finger off. lame.

[krookedshocker]

you couldnt handle the smooth recoil of the lewis gun at all you pussy fart.

8-)

[randomcreatureface]

pussy fart...hahahaha

[h0lehshyt]

im jealous of your family btw hahah they seem awesome

[h0lehshyt]

8:27 dont lean back Nancy :\ lean into the gun so u get more stability :)

[Rcampo42]

@justforever96 my point. i'll only use weapons wielded by the german empire, and the soviet union

[justforever96]

is that a vickers .50 cal on the wall at 3:20?

[justforever96]

@Rcampo42 Then I'd say you were loosing out for foolish reasons. Then again, if you really only left out weapons "wielded by" Hitler, Saddam, etc, then there would still be a lot left, since none of them actually wielded many weapons at all. They had their soldiers do it for them. If you won't touch any of those weapons that were used by their armed forces, then you'd be missing a lot. Namely the AK 47, the Mauser rifle, captured M-16's, and scores of others. Knock yourself out.

[justforever96]

@monsimand It's not; in two of the Hollywood movie clips (The Mummy) you can see the actual barrel. It looks so big in the others is because it has a shroud around the barrel, which uses the muzzle blast to draw air through the shroud and cool the barrel (which is debated). At the time, most guns had big water jackets around the barrel to cool them (see the Maxim gun, 1:18). It was very heavy, so a shroud was better. Aircraft Lewis' left it off since the airflow in a plane was enough.

[MattAUS1997]

my grandfather used this in ww2

[jwaustinmunguy]

Grandfather was a Corporal in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I. He was a Lewis gun instructor in England for the better part of the war. After the appalling losses at Passchendale Ridge he accepted a reduction in rank and volunteered for France. He was wounded Sept 30 1918 at the Canal du Nord and left for dead by the Germans. He moved as the Canadians were stacking bodies and survived. I don't believe he cared for guns again although he must have had a rifle on the farm.

[hordichuck]

British soldiers used this weapon for trench clearance and aircraft mounting during ww1. the vickers mg was used in static defence

[njrobinson95]

You're a Quentin Tarantino fan aren't you?