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  2. Thompson submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, the Thompson submachine gun was adopted by the U.S. military and was used during World War II. There were two military types of Thompson submachine gun: The M1928A1 , which had provisions for both box and drum magazines, utilized the Cutts muzzle brake, had cooling fins on the barrel , and employed a delayed blowback action with the ...

  3. .45 Remington–Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Headstamp for the .45 Remington-Thompson cartridge. The .45 Remington–Thompson (11.4x25mm) was an experimental firearms cartridge designed by Remington Arms and Auto Ordnance for the Model 1923 Thompson submachine gun, a variant of the Model 1921 with a longer barrel, with the intent of increasing the power and range of the weapon.

  4. 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-").

  5. M3 submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. [12] The M3 was chambered for the same .45 ACP round fired by the Thompson submachine gun , but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter, at the expense of accuracy. [ 12 ]

  6. Auto-Ordnance Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Auto-Ordnance Corporation was created by John T. Thompson in August 1916 with the backing of investor Thomas Ryan.In 1915 Thompson had found the Blish Lock patent of Commander John Blish, which was the operating principle of the first prototypes of the Thompson submachine gun and the Thompson Autorifle.

  7. List of submachine guns - Wikipedia

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    CETME C2 submachine gun: CETME: 9×23mm Largo 9x19mm Parabellum Spain: 1964 SMG Chauchat-Ribeyrolles 1918 submachine gun: Ribeyrolles, Sutter and Chauchat (RSC) 8×50mmR Lebel France: 1918 SMG PDW Chropi GP10 submachine gun: Chropi 9×19mm Parabellum.45 ACP Greece: 1975 SMG Choroszmanów submachine gun: Grzegorz Choroszman 7.62×25mm Tokarev ...

  8. List of most-produced firearms - Wikipedia

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    Thompson submachine gun: Submachine gun 1,700,000 TT pistol: Semi-automatic pistol Soviet Union: 1,700,000 SVT-38 and SVT-40: Semi-automatic rifle 1,000,000+ [112] 1,600,000 Winchester Model 1890 and 1906: Pump-action rifle United States: 1,600,000 [93] Colt Police Positive Special. and Detective Special. Revolver 1,500,000 [52] Beretta M1934 ...

  9. Table of handgun and rifle cartridges - Wikipedia

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    This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load (e.g. the highest muzzle energy might not be in the same load as the highest muzzle velocity, since the bullet weights can differ between loads).