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  2. Thompson submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    The M1A1 Thompson submachine gun on display at the Virginia War Museum. The M1A1, standardized in October 1942 as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M1A1, could be produced in half the time of the M1928A1, and at a much lower cost. The main difference between the M1 and M1A1 was the bolt.

  3. Category:10mm Auto submachine guns - Wikipedia

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    Thompson submachine gun This page was last edited on 30 July 2018, at 16:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  4. Category:World War II submachine guns - Wikipedia

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    Thompson submachine gun; Tokyo Arsenal Model 1927; Type 100 submachine gun; TZ-45; U. United Defense M42; W. BSA Welgun; Z. ZK-383 This page was last edited on 17 ...

  5. Submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    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-").

  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. In exchange for shares of the newly ...

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  8. Category:.45 ACP submachine guns - Wikipedia

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    Thompson submachine gun; U. Uzi This page was last edited on 30 July 2018, at 16:56 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  9. Blish lock - Wikipedia

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    Some authorities, such as Julian Hatcher, felt the Blish lock as employed in the submachine gun did not accomplish much in terms of actual breech locking. In fact, the submachine gun was successfully redesigned as a simple blowback weapon (the M1/M1A1). Any real advantages to the system were far outweighed by the additional cost of manufacture ...