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Pages in category ".45 ACP submachine guns" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beretta Mx4 ...
SMG M2 Hyde: Marlin Firearms.45 ACP United States: 1942 SMG M3 Grease Gun: General Motors.45 ACP 9×19mm Parabellum.30 Carbine United States: 1942-1945, with additional production in early 1950s SMG M49 submachine gun: Zastava Arms: 7.62×25mm Tokarev Yugoslavia: 1949 SMG M50 Reising: Harrington & Richardson.45 ACP United States: 1941 SMG M56 ...
The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. [12] The M3 was chambered for the same .45 ACP round fired by the Thompson submachine gun , but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter, at the expense of accuracy. [ 12 ]
H&R promoted the submachine guns for police and military use, and the Model 60 for security guards. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 the US was suddenly in desperate need of thousands of modern automatic weapons. Reising's only competitor was the .45 ACP Thompson submachine gun. [4]
Some of the weapons saw limited service in the early years of the Iraqi insurgency, making them one of the more popular submachine guns being deployed by the U.S. military personnel in recent conflicts around the world. The UMP can be converted from 9×19mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, or .45 ACP by changing the barrel, bolt, and magazine.
Marlin began production in May 1943. Marlin's production failed to match the trials prototype performance; [3] and Marlin's original contract for 164,450 M2s was canceled in 1943 upon adoption of the M3 submachine gun. [4] The M2 is chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge and used the same 20- or 30-round magazine as the Thompson.
The Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially abbreviated as "M10" or "M-10", [5] and more commonly known as the MAC-10, is a compact, blowback operated machine pistol/submachine gun that was developed by Gordon Ingram in 1964. It is chambered in either .45 ACP or 9mm. A two-stage suppressor by Sionics was designed for the MAC-10 ...
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.