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ETVS submachine gun: Établissement Technique de Versailles 7.65×20mm Longue France: 1933-1939 SMG Experimental Model 2 submachine gun: Nambu: 8×22mm Nambu Japan: 1935 SMG F1 submachine gun: Lithgow Small Arms Factory: 9×19mm Parabellum Australia: 1962-1973 SMG FAMAE SAF: FAMAE: 9×19mm Parabellum Chile: 1993-Present SMG FBP submachine gun
The history of the Model 76 submachine gun started in April 1966 with a call from Smith & Wesson's Washington, D.C. sales representative; he had been contacted by the US Navy Department to see if Smith & Wesson would be interested in designing, and producing a 9mm submachine gun. [1]
The Uzi carbine is similar in appearance to the Uzi submachine gun. The Uzi carbine is fitted with a 400-millimetre (16 in) barrel, to meet the minimum rifle barrel length requirement for civilian sales in the United States. A small number of Uzi carbines were produced with the standard length barrel for special markets.
Most of the time, K1 submachine gun is regarded as a shortened or carbine version of Daewoo Precision Industries K2 assault rifle. However, although the two guns share development history they are very different from each other for the following reasons:
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-").
The CZ Model 23/25 (properly, Sa 23/25 or Sa vz. 48b/samopal vz. 48b – samopal vzor 48 výsadkový, "submachine gun model year 1948 para") was a series of Czechoslovak designed submachine guns introduced in 1948. There were four generally very similar submachine guns in this series: the Sa 23, Sa 24, Sa 25, and Sa 26.
The counter-terrorist unit GSG-9, which was established after the incident, adopted the H&K MP5 as their service submachine gun instead of the Walther MP. As the MP5 became more prevalent, it would begin to eclipse the Walther MP's sales until the Walther product was discontinued. [5] In addition, exports to other countries were also carried out.
The Socimi Type 821-SMG was a submachine gun manufactured in the 1980s by the firm of SOCIMI, Società Costruzioni Industriali Milano, SpA located in Milan, Italy. [ 1 ] Development