The Williams Machine Gun Mafia like the kind of guns that you can run really hard without having any issues. The boss Andy Williams, tells us which of his guns these are.
Williams, a Class 3 dealer from Maine, is a regular attendee at the Green Mountain Boys Machine Gun Shoot in Eden, Vermont. I caught up with him in 2014. He showed up, as usual, with his crew that consisted of his son and a few close family friends. In tow, was a small arsenal of select-fire weapons and a lot ammo.
Although Williams enjoys dealing guns, he prefers to shoot them. “There’s a couple different kind of dealers,” he said. “There’s the kind of dealers that want to make money off of everything. And there’s the kind of dealers that love guns like me.”
Williams and his gang shoot hard – probably harder than anyone else at the gun shoot. “We don’t worry about the gun. We fix it after,” Williams said with a grin.
“We like the guns that run time after time and you don’t have to mess with them. The AK is one example of that,” Willams said. He had about a dozen different variations of AKs in his lineup. “I’ll tell ya, the accuracy sucks on an AK, but the reliability is unbelievable,” he said.
Williams is also a big fan of Glock pistols. He had three select-fire G19 pistols at the shoot. “They’re really fast. I mean, they’re like, probably at least around 1,500 rounds a minute,” he said.
The Williams style of shooting their select-fire Glocks was unique. A shooter advanced to the firing line with two unloaded Glocks, one in each hand, held aloft in a safe direction. From behind, a loader inserted 33-round magazines in each of the G19s and released the slide. Checking the range to be clear, the shooter unleashed both guns in unison, spraying bullets everywhere. He then held the empty pistols, slides locked back for the loader to reload and repeat.
They fired the Glocks all day in this manner. They must have put a few thousand rounds through each G19, firing at roughly 1,500 round per minute, and I did not see a single jam. I don’t recall them cleaning them either the whole day. Talk about a testament to the Glock’s legendary reliability.
The third and perhaps most admired guns in William’s arsenal were his Heckler & Kochs. On his right shoulder is a giant tattoo of an HK MP5. (see below) He loves all things HK; MP5s, G36s, all HK pistols and of course the gun he had on hand at the shoot, the apple of his eye, his HK 21E. It’s a belt-fed general-purpose machine gun chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO. “It really roars. It has a three-round burst capability. It’s got a nice sight system. When this thing fires, you’ll see an arc of brass,” Williams said.
He then demonstrated it. And, true to his word, a freedom rainbow of hot brass filled the air. He claimed to have one of the few transferable HK 21E’s that was worth in the ballpark of $30,000. “I’ll never sell that gun,” he said with a smile. “HK is high quality. I just think it’s top end tactical stuff,” he said.
Williams also gave shout-outs to his other guns – AR-15s, M14s and an FN M240 machine gun. You can bet there’s other guns that Williams really loves but these are the ones he happened to have that day.
What guns do you absolutely love? Let us know in the comments.
