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  2. List of submachine guns - Wikipedia

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    SMG Lmg-Pist 41/44: Waffenfabrik Bern: 7.65×21mm Parabellum Switzerland: 1941 MP Lusa submachine gun: INDEP: 9×19mm Parabellum Portugal: 1983 SMG M2 Hyde: Marlin Firearms.45 ACP United States: 1942 SMG M3 Grease Gun: General Motors.45 ACP 9×19mm Parabellum.30 Carbine United States: 1942-1945, with additional production in early 1950s SMG M49 ...

  3. Submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges.The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, [1] to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").

  4. Light machine gun - Wikipedia

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    A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same combat unit are often referred to as squad automatic weapons .

  5. Calico Light Weapons Systems - Wikipedia

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    Calico Light Weapons Inc. (CLWS) is an American privately held manufacturing company based in Elgin, Oregon, that designs, develops and manufactures semiautomatic firearms. It was established in 1982 in Bakersfield, California , and released its first production weapon in 1985.

  6. Taurus SMT - Wikipedia

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    Taurus offers the SMT in two different variants; the SMT9 and SMT40, the only difference between the two is their calibre. The Taurus CT G2 is a semi-automatic only pistol-caliber carbine variant of the MT G2. It was first announced at the 2011 SHOT Show. [2] The CTT40 is a further evolution of the CT G2 series.

  7. Machine pistol - Wikipedia

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    The term "submachine gun" usually refers to magazine-fed, fully automatic carbines designed to fire pistol cartridges, while the term "machine pistol" usually refers to fully automatic handgun based weapons. However, many weapons fall into both categories. An example of this is the Škorpion vz. 61, often called a submachine gun. However, it is ...

  8. List of British weapon L numbers - Wikipedia

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    The L number in isolation is not a unique identifier; the L1 designation alone is used for a rifle and its corresponding bayonet and blank-firing attachment, a machine gun, a tank gun, a sighting telescope, an anti-riot grenade, three separate rocket systems, a necklace demolition charge, a hand-thrown flare, a fuze setter head, and two ...

  9. General-purpose machine gun - Wikipedia

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    South Korean S&T Motiv K12, is based on the K3 light machine gun. Swiss MG 51, a direct descendant of the MG42. Swiss SIG MG 710-3; Swiss SIG MG 50; Austrian MG 74, a direct descendant of the MG 42/59 and since 1974 the standard machine gun of the Austrian Armed Forces. Israeli Negev NG7, is a GPMG based on the IWI Negev light machine gun.