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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 ...er to manufacture alternative to the existing [[FN FAL]], although the two guns are not directly related. The CAL never met with any significant interest

*[[American-180]] (US - SMG - .22 LR & .22 Short Magnum) **[[American SAR 180/275]] (US - Semi-Auto Carbine - .22 LR)

...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 ...e Herstal|Fabrique Nationale]] also submitted their new [[FN FAL]] via the American firm of Harrington & Richardson as the T48. However, the results of the tes

...nemy's head down until it was too late. (The idea would resurface in the [[submachine gun]] and ultimately the [[assault rifle]].) It is not known if any of thes ... U.S. civilian transfer was banned in 1968, and U.S. production of machine guns for civilian transfer was banned in 1986. Transferable civilian-owned BAR m

...vations of conflicts during the 1930s, and dissatisfaction with existing [[submachine gun]]s and rifles contributed to the development of the M1 Carbine. ...nsufficiently accurate or powerful. Submachine guns such as the [[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson]] were more than sufficiently powerful for close-range encount

...rifle|M16]] [[assault rifle]] or the [[M4 carbine|M4 Carbine]] used by the American military. The M203 can also be mounted onto a [[Colt Canada C7 rifle|C7]], The American '''M203A1''' is intended for use with the [[M4 carbine|M4]] and [[M4 carbin

|name= M3 submachine gun |type= [[submachine gun]]

...with the M16A2 rifle and was intended to replace the .45 ACP M3 submachine guns and selected M9 pistols and M16 rifle series with most Army units (this pla ...rifle to be the "firearm" (the serial numbered and, in the case of machine guns, registered under federal law, part of the weapon), a registered Colt M16 (

|type= [[submachine gun]] ...eUQ&dq=The%20MP40%20submachine%20gun&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=&f=false The MP40 submachine gun]. Zenith Imprint. p. 75. ISBN 0760310149.</ref>

...ypically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute. The first machine guns were manually operated, for example, by turning a hand crank. ...of the most significant to allowing higher rates of fire common to machine guns.

...]n [[RPK]] light machine gun and the [[United States|American]] [[Thompson submachine gun]]. ...y mounted on top of the firearm. This type is used on the [[American-180]] submachine gun, the [[Lewis Gun]], and the [[Degtyarev light machine gun]].

...vidual weapon with a fixed, naked barrel. On the other hand medium machine guns have usually had more endurance of some sort, such as the aforementioned he ...f issue, and they were also quite heavy; being, essentially, heavy machine guns.

# Machine guns - this includes any firearm which can fire more than 1 cartridge per trigge ...tion and taxation. Examples include smoothbore pistols, pen guns and cane guns, short-barreled weapons with both rifled and smooth bores, etc.

'''[[Stevens Arms]]''' was an [[United States|American]] [[firearm]]s manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864. The company ...f name=flayderman>Flayderman, Norm (1994). ''Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms''. DBI Books. p. 209.</ref> Business was slow into 1870, when it o

....</ref><ref>Lucas Timmons, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/05/17/guns-confiscation.html "RCMP gun confiscations prompt legal fight"]. CBC News, [ ...iably result in the denial of the application but criminals just get their guns anyway, through the black market.

... by private citizens.<ref>[http://www.chuckhawks.com/guns_home_defense.htm Guns for Home Defense], Chuck Hawks</ref> For offensive military shotgun use, s ...rt range weapon commonly used, with a hit probability 45% greater than a [[submachine gun]], and twice as great as an [[assault rifle]].<ref name=JSCSP>[http://j

...Ordnance Company during World War I and produced [[Lewis gun|Lewis machine guns]].<ref name="riches"/> In [[1920]] Savage bought [[Stevens Arms]]. In [[193 ...g [[World War I]] for the purpose of enlarging the output of Lewis machine guns at the plant. The buildings included two large four-story brick structures,

... next cartridge from the magazine. The open-bolt system is often used in [[submachine gun]]s and other weapons with a high rate of fire. It is rarely used in sem A few years later, American [[gunsmith]] [[John Moses Browning]] developed the first successful semi-au

...tic pistol technically refers to a [[machine pistol]], although in popular American usage it is also used as a synonym for a semi-automatic pistol. In the case ...tions allow the use of larger cartridges and were popular in early machine guns.

...'service weapons' in the truest sense, certain specialist [[rifle]]s and [[submachine gun]]s are categorized as such if issued as per standard operating procedur ...as the precursor to other assault rifles such as the Soviet [[AK-47]], the American [[M16 rifle|M-16]], the Belgian [[FN FAL]], the German [[Heckler & Koch G3|