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...ler2001">Miller, David (2001). ''The Illustrated Directory of 20th Century Guns''. London: Salamander Books Ltd.. ISBN 9781840652451.</ref> The P90's name
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...ms]], requiring the services of more than one crewman, just like artillery guns. Generally, an automatic firearm designed for a single user is referred to
For handguns and long guns, the [[projectile]] is a [[bullet]], or in historical [[cannons]], a [[cann
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...an the pistol cartridges of submachine guns, but that could be used like a submachine gun in close-quarters and urban fighting. Production of the StG44 was never
*[http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl02-e.htm world.guns.ru]
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...tle of Caporetto. it also aided development of the next Italian submachine guns, the OVP 1918 and the Beretta 1918. It is always claimed that the Beretta b
...explains the reputation of unreliability of these first Beretta submachine guns.
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==Machine guns==
==Submachine guns==
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...etta 1934|Beretta Modello 1934]]''': A fine compact pistol adopted as the Italian service pistol before World War II, has become one of the most popular coll
...Glisenti Model 1910]]''': A less-successful design which was the standard Italian sidearm in World War I. Many remained in service in World War II.
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;Machine Guns
;Machine Guns
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...un]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [[submachine gun]]s, which fire a handgun cartridge rather than a rifle cartridge. Assau
...NATO standards, and became in the late 1980s the main assault rifle of the Italian military, retaining such role up to date. The most widely issued version of
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'''Luigi Franchi S.p.A.''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] manufacturer of [[firearm]]s, most notably various [[shotgun]]s.
* [[List of Italian submachine guns]]
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...& Koch G3|H&K G3]] and other rifles, and even the [[Heckler & Koch MP5|MP5 submachine gun]]. Most of these other companies have since devised 40 mm grenade laun
*[[Italy]] [[IMI Galil|Bernardelli VB/VB-SR]] in [[Italy|Italian]] service (limited to Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza); [[Beretta]]
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...m submachine gun usually refers to larger automatic firearms. Typically, a submachine gun's operating mechanism is scaled down from that of a full-sized machine
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[[Image:Hkmp5count-terr-wiki.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Heckler & Koch]] [[MP5]] submachine gun is widely used by law enforcement tactical teams and military forces.]]
A '''submachine gun''' (SMG) is a [[firearm]] that combines the [[automatic firearm|automat
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...s firefights. As a result, armies sought a cartridge and rifle combining [[submachine gun]] features (large-capacity magazine, selective-fire) with an intermedia
...) was not the first with these features; its predecessors were the [[Italy|Italian]] [[Cei-Rigotti]] and the [[Imperial Russia|Russia]]n [[Fedorov Avtomat]] d
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...un]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [[submachine gun]]s, which fire a handgun cartridge rather than a rifle cartridge. Assau
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...o.png|200px|right]]'''Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta''' is a major [[Italy|Italian]] [[firearm]] manufacturing company. Its firearms are used world-wide by ci
...lian army fielded. Beretta manufactured [[rifle]]s and [[pistol]]s for the Italian military until the 1943 Armistice between Italy and the Allied forces durin
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...ding line was chosen, apparently, to exempt almost all air, gas and spring guns. The government's experts refused to consider the NFA's repeated submissi
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