The Owen gun, known officially as the Owen machine carbine, was an Australian submachine gun that was designed by Evelyn Owen in 1938. The Owen was the only entirely Australian …

2023年2月28日 · The Owen gun underwent testing in September 1941, with the Australian military pitting it against the US Thompson and British STEN submachine guns. It immediately showed …

2013年3月25日 · The Owen gun story begins with a young 23-year-old Evelyn Owen and his incessant tinkering with guns. In 1938 he perfected (well, sort of) a homemade full auto …

2025年3月12日 · This sparked a 24-year-old Pvt. Evelyn Ernest Owen, with the 2/17 Battalion of the Australian Army, from Wollongong, New South Wales, to submit a gun he made to the …

It was the Owen submachine gun (SMG) or Owen machine carbine, and the Australian infantry often favorably referred to it as the “Digger’s Darling.” According to historian Michael Haskew, …

2013年3月24日 · The Australian-designed Owen submachine gun is a weapon with quite a story behind it. The Owen is arguably the best subgun used during WWII, and also probabl...

2023年12月26日 · Evelyn Owen sold the patent to the Australian government for 10,000 pounds and used that money to buy enough liquor to kill a herd of water buffalo—or one Evelyn Owen. …

2023年2月21日 · Back during WWII when gun designers were crafting such conventional weapons as the German MP-40, America’s M-3 Grease Gun, the Russian PPSh, and the …

2019年4月20日 · If there were a contest for the weirdest and wackiest-looking submachine gun of World War II, Australia’s Owen would win hands-down. It looks as if the designer cobbled it …

1999年12月5日 · Still, simple in design, with loose fitting parts, rugged and deadly in close quarter action, the Owen was a weapon made for the Aussie Digger warrior. The Owen went into …