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...455. (May 1981)</ref><ref name="CNNpoll">[http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/16/guns.poll/ Majority in U.S. poll support gun ownership rights] - CNN.com</ref> w ... has never ruled against the constitutionality of reasonable regulation of guns and the prohibition of private possession of certain types of weapons.

* From the city of Pistoia, Italy, where hand-held guns (designed to be fired from horseback) were first produced in the 1540s.<ref ...y simplest pistols. The earliest handguns were single-shot, muzzle-loading guns with ignition provided by inserting a smoldering match cord into a [[touch

...ous series of small [[firearm]]s, notably the [[Heckler & Koch MP5|MP5]] [[submachine gun]], [[Heckler & Koch G3|G3]] and more modern [[Heckler & Koch G36|G36]] ...[Glock]] was the first firearms manufacturer to use polymers in their hand guns, however it was Heckler & Koch who actually claimed that title when they re

|type= [[Submachine gun]] }}The '''MP5''' is a [[9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[submachine gun]] of [[Germany|German]] design, developed in the 1960s by a team of eng

...i of Peiraeus, for the adoption of its own-developed rifles and submachine guns, was rejected after testing proved that its weapons were not up to desired ...tories hundreds of thousands of rifles (military and civilian) and machine guns, as well as pistols, mortars, ammunition&expolsives, rocket launchers, land

...sirable for anything but belt-fed machine guns and pistol-sized submachine guns. The reason is that the mass of the bolt, moving forward, causes the gun t ...o issues of firearm size, and minimum required energy. Short-range target guns are, generally, chambered in .22 Long Rifle, or .22 Short, which have very

...g the war, they also produced [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911]] pistols and [[M3 submachine gun|M3 Grease Gun]]s. ...nut pin was furnished only on guns built prior to [[1955]]. On later-built guns having no pin, simply rotate the magazine nut.)<br>The barrel is joined to

.... Ithaca also produced the [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911]] pistol and the [[M3 submachine gun|M3 Grease Gun]] for the United States military during [[World War II]]. ... its assets sold at auction on November 29, 2005 to the Marshals of Ithaca Guns, USA LLC. Finally, David Dlubak bought the current Ithaca Gun Company and a

...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]

...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.

==Machine guns== ==Submachine guns==

== Submachine Guns == * '''[[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson]]'''

;Machine Guns ;Machine Guns

...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 ...complex of Kalashnikov assault rifles chambered for domestic 7.62 x 39mm, 5.45 x 39mm cartridges as well as the 5.56 x 45mm NATO cartridge to expand the e

*[[KBP A-91|A-91]] (Russia - Compact Assault Rifle - 5.45 x 39 mm, 5.56 x 45 mm, 7.62 x 39 mm) *[[AEK-971]] (Russia - Assault Rifle - 5.45 x 39 mm & 7.62 x 39 mm)

...ense weapon]]s (PDWs), all of which are sometimes designated as submachine guns. *[[FMK-3 submachine gun]]

In World War I, as [[submachine gun]]s were found to be effective in trench warfare, experiments with conve

* [[List of Italian submachine guns]]

...t. By contrast, soldiers armed with rapid fire weapons (such as submachine guns) were much more likely to have fired their weapons in battle. These conclus ...g" ability of the [[.30 Carbine]].<ref>Hutton, Robert (ed.), ''The .223'', Guns & Ammo Annual Edition, 1971</ref>

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