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Details of the MP 40 have also been adopted in other submachine guns, which otherwise differ significantly from a technical point of view: The designers of the American M3 "Grease Gun" examined British Sten guns and captured MP 40s for usable construction details.
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 ]
Submachine guns. Beretta M1938 (Italian captured) M3 submachine gun (American made, also known as grease gun, used by mountain commandos and exiled Greek forces) MP 34 (German captured, used by gendarmerie and police forces) MP 40 (German captured) Sten submachine gun (British made, used by exiled Greek forces)
Lusa submachine gun: INDEP: 9×19mm Parabellum Portugal: 1983 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
The name of the gun likely relates to Zagi - squirrel mascot of XIV Summer Universiade that was held in Zagreb, in 1987. Weapon's mechanism is based on Sten submachine gun, famous for its simplicity of production [2] Magazine is based on the MP40, dual stack, single feed magazine. Extending stock resembles one used in Grease gun.
The submachine gun was produced by the Fábrica de Braço de Prata weapon factory at Lisbon, [3] whose initials FBP gave the name to the weapon, adopted for service as the m/948 in 1948. It utilized the large bolt and telescoping operating spring of the German MP40 submachine gun, and the collapsible wire stock of the American M3 submachine gun ...
This is a common feature in basic submachine guns like the Sten gun or M3 "Grease Gun", and even some machine guns. With a fixed firing pin, when the bolt is closed gently, without the momentum of the bolt closing at normal speed, there is not enough force imparted to the firing pin to ignite the primer.
M3 Grease gun [48] [45]: 41 Madsen M-50 – used by South Vietnamese forces, supplied by the CIA. [45]: 41 MAS-38 submachine gun – used by South Vietnamese militias. [50]: 22 MAT-49 submachine gun – used by South Vietnamese militias. [49] MP 40 submachine gun – supplied by the CIA [45]: 41 Thompson submachine gun; Uzi [51]