List of submachine guns

The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...

The ARES FMG is a folding submachine gun designed by Eugene Stoner while he was an owner of ARES Incorporated. Stoner designed the gun for concealment and covert use, describing it as a “businessman’s personal defense weapon”...

ARES Incorporated is weapons manufacturer co-founded by Eugene Stoner in 1971. The company is based in Port Clinton, Ohio, and produces fire control systems, turret systems, small arms, automatic cannons and industrial machinery....

The Shipka is a 9 mm Bulgarian submachine gun produced in 1996 by the Bulgarian company Arsenal. The name is a reference to the famous Shipka Pass, near Arsenal's Kazanlak headquarters, in the Balkans where Russian troops and Bulgarian volunteers defeated the Ottoman Empire during the...

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

The Arsenal M23 submachine gun was an Estonian submachine gun from 1926 through 1935. These submachine guns were designed and produced in the Estonian military equipment factory "Arsenal" but production was not more than 600 units...

The Austen was a 9 millimeter Australian submachine gun derived from the British Sten gun developed during the Second World War. In total 19,914 Austens were produced during the war by Diecasters Ltd of Melbourne and W. T...

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

The Benelli CB-M2 was a unique submachine gun of Italian conception resulting from a joint venture between Benelli and Fiocchi Munizioni, the biggest ammunition manufacturer of Italy. The weapon itself was unremarkable, and operated by a simple blowback system, which is very common for submachine...

Benelli Armi SpA is an Italian firearm manufacturer founded in 1967, located in Urbino, Italy, most well known for high quality shotguns used by military, law enforcement and civilians all over the world. Particularly famous is the Benelli M3 12 gauge, used extensively by American SWAT teams...

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is a major Italian firearm manufacturing company. Its firearms are used worldwide by civilians, police, and armies. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories.-History:...

The Beretta Model 1918 was a submachine gun that entered service in 1918 with the Italian armed forces. It was the second submachine gun to enter service in World War I, after the Villar Perosa beating the German MP18 into service by a couple of months....

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is a major Italian firearm manufacturing company. Its firearms are used worldwide by civilians, police, and armies. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories.-History:...

The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia which is its legal predecessor State, and with the decisive help of France and Great Britain...

An Italian submachine gun produced from 1956 to 1959. It was essentially the World War II-era Beretta 38/42 redesigned for more efficient production. The wooden stock of the 38/42 was replaced with a steel folding stock...

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is a major Italian firearm manufacturing company. Its firearms are used worldwide by civilians, police, and armies. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories.-History:...

Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is a major Italian firearm manufacturing company. Its firearms are used worldwide by civilians, police, and armies. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories.-History:...

The Kingdom of Italy was a state forged in 1861 by the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia which is its legal predecessor State, and with the decisive help of France and Great Britain...

The BXP is 9 mm submachine gun developed in the mid-1980s by the South African company Mechem and brought into production in 1988. Due to international arms embargoes of Apartheid South Africa, the country was forced to design and manufacture their own weapons. The weapon was intended for use by...

Denel Ltd is a South African government dominated military-industrial and technological conglomerate established in 1991. It was created when the manufacturing subsidiaries of Armscor were split from Armscor in order for Armscor to be solely the procurement arm of the South African Defence Force ,...

The Armia Krajowa , abbreviated "AK", was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej . Over the next two years, it absorbed most other Polish underground forces...

The Hafdasa C-4 is a submachine gun of Argentine origin and is chambered in 9mm and .45 calibres. It has an aluminium receiver and is fed from a wide 50 round box magazine for 9x19mm rounds and 40 round magaine for the .45 ACP rounds. The C-4 was avaliable with a fixed wooden stock and folding...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The Calico M960 is a 9x19mm caliber semi-automatic carbine , manufactured by Calico Light Weapons Systems. Its unique features include its high-capacity, cylindrical, helical-feed magazine and retractable stock...

Calico Light Weapons Inc. is a small firearms manufacturing company currently based in Hillsboro, Oregon.-Products:CLWS produces a line of pistols and pistol-caliber carbines. Calico firearms feature a top-mounted, helical-feed, high-capacity magazine that ejects spent shells from a slot in the...

Kulsprutepistol m/45 , also known as the Carl Gustav M/45 and the Swedish K SMG, is a 9 mm Swedish submachine gun designed by Gunnar Johnsson, adopted in 1945 , and manufactured at the Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori in Eskilstuna city.The m/45 was the official submachine gun of the Swedish Army...

The Chropi GP10 was a submachine gun built by Chropei , a Greek chemical company. It was designed by a team under Mr. Sotiris Sofianopoulos and was proposed to the Greek Army in 1975...

CHROPEI, also spelled as CHROPI , was a historic Greek chemical company. It was founded in 1883 by chemists Spilios and Leontios Economides and has traditionally been a major synthetic dye and pharmaceuticals manufacturer.An important contributor to Greece's defence effort during...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The Cobra Land Defense Pistol is a semi-automatic stocked pistol of Rhodesian origin manufactured during the Bush War Era as a 'Land Defence Pistol' for white afrikaan farmers and is chambered in the 9mm round. The layout of this weapon is somewhat based on the Uzi submachine gun.-External Links:*...

The Colt 9mm SMG is a 9x19mm Parabellum submachine gun manufactured by Colt, based on the AR-15 platform.-Design details:The Colt 9mm SMG is blowback operated rather than the conventional direct impingement gas operation of the AR-15 series rifles, and it fires from a closed bolt.The overall...

Colt's Manufacturing Company is a United States firearms manufacturer founded in 1847. It is best known for the engineering, production, and marketing of dozens of different firearms over the later half of the 19th and the 20th century...

The CPW is a multi-caliber submachine gun developed by ST Kinetics of Singapore as a PDW-class firearm. The prototype is chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum but the manufacturer assures that the weapon's modular design allows for a simple caliber conversion—to either 5.7x28mm or 4.6x30mm.-Design...

The 5.7x28mm cartridge is a small caliber cartridge developed by FN Herstal simultaneously with the FN P90 personal defense weapon and FN Five-Seven pistol. It is a bottlenecked cartridge with a 5.7 mm bullet and could be most accurately compared to the .22 Hornet or the competing Heckler &...

The 4.6x30mm cartridge is a type of ammunition used in the H&K MP7 Personal Defense Weapon and by the H&K UCP pistol. It is designed to minimize weight and recoil while increasing penetration of body armor...

The Daewoo K7 was announced in 2003 as a 9 mm silenced submachine gun for use with the South-Korean special forces. It is based on the K1A infantry rifle, from which the receiver and telescopic buttstock was copied...

Daewoo was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999. Prior to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998, Daweoo was the second largest conglomerate in Korea after Hyundai, followed by LG and Samsung...

The 9x25mm Mauser was a cartridge developed for the Mauser C96 service pistol. The cartridge was first produced by DWM in 1907 and later by German munitions makers Geco and RWS through World War II...

The Kingdom of Hungary existed from 1919 to 1946 and was a de facto country under Regent Miklós Horthy. Horthy officially represented the abdicated Hungarian monarchy of Charles IV, Apostolic King of Hungary...

The DUX-53 and DUX-59 were submachine guns designed at the Oviedo Arsenal in Spain. They were based directly on the design of the Finnish 9mm Model 44 submachine gun, which in turn was based on the Soviet PPS-43...

The 9 mm F1 was a standard Australian submachine gun manufactured by the Lithgow Small Arms Factory . First issued to Australian army troops in July 1963, it replaced the Owen machine carbine. The F1 was retired in the early 1990's and replaced by the F88C Austeyr, an Australian-built version of...

The FAMAE SAF is a submachine gun produced since 1993 by FAMAE , the Chilean government small arms factory...

FAMAE is a Chilean government-owned weapons producer. Its products are used by the Chilean armed forces and the police. The company produces among others the FAMAE SAF submachine gun, FAMAE FD-200 sniper rifle, Cohete Rayo rocket launcher and FAMAE revolver. FAMAE is funded, in addition to Chile,...

FBP is a 9 mm submachine gun originally developed from a design first conceived in 1940 by Gonçalves Cardoso, an officer of artillery in the Portuguese Army...

INDEP - Indústrias Nacionais de Defesa, EP , originally Fábrica do Braço de Prata , is a defense industry company owned by the Portuguese Government....

The Floro Mk. 9 is a submachine gun designed by Floro International Corporation of the Philippines. The Floro Mk. 9 submachine gun is a private venture of Floro International of Tanay, Rizal Province in the Philippines...

Floro International Corporation is a Philippine company that produces a wide range of products for both the Philippine and export market. They have gained some renown in the Philippines for the various upgrades to defense equipment which they market to the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the...

The FMK-3 is a selective fire, blowback operated submachine gun of Argentine origin and was designed by Fabricaciones Militares in 1974. It is chambered in 9 mm, with a rate of fire of 650 rounds per minute. 20, 32, and 40 round magazines are available for the FMK-3. 30,000 were produced for the...

The FN P90 is a Belgian-designed personal defense weapon . The weapon's name is an abbreviation of Project 90, which specifies a weapon system of the 1990s...

Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, more often abbreviated as Fabrique Nationale or simply FN, is a Belgian manufacturer of firearms. The official company name is FN Herstal. FN is a subsidiary of the Herstal Group. Herstal also owns the U.S. Repeating Arms Company and Browning Arms Company...

The 5.7x28mm cartridge is a small caliber cartridge developed by FN Herstal simultaneously with the FN P90 personal defense weapon and FN Five-Seven pistol. It is a bottlenecked cartridge with a 5.7 mm bullet and could be most accurately compared to the .22 Hornet or the competing Heckler &...

The Halcon M-1943 is a submachine gun of Argentine origin and was chambered in both 9x19mm Parabellum for the Army and .45 ACP for Police Forces. Another variant was the Halcon M-1946 which came with a folding stock. It must be noted this weapon is comparable in quality and performance with the...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The M57 is a submachine gun manufactured by the Buenos Aires based Halcon corporation. The weapon is chambered in 9mm Parabellum for the Argentine Army and in .45 ACP for Police Forces, fed from 30 round magazines...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The ML-63 is a submachine gun manufactured by the Buenos Aires based Halcon corporation. The weapon is chambered in 9mm Parabellum and is fed from a 30 round magazine. A number of ML-63 submachine guns were found by the British during the Falklands War in...

The Heckler & Koch MP5 is a 9mm submachine gun of German design, developed in the 1960s by a team of engineers from the German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch GmbH of Oberndorf am Neckar.It is currently used by the armed forces and law enforcement units of over 40 countries...

Heckler & Koch GmbH is a German defense manufacturing company that produces various small arms, for example the MP5 submachine gun, G3 automatic rifle and the more recent G36 assault rifle, the MP7 personal defense weapon, USP series of handguns and the high-precision PSG1 sniper rifle...

The .40 S&W is a rimless pistol cartridge developed jointly by Winchester and Smith & Wesson, two famous American firearms manufacturers. It uses .40-inch diameter bullets ranging in weight from 135 to 200 grains and operates at about 33,000 psi pressure...

The MP7 is a German submachine gun manufactured by Heckler & Koch and chambered for the 4.6x30mm cartridge. It was designed in conjunction with the new cartridge to meet NATO requirements published in 1989 calling for a personal defense weapon class firearm with a greater ability to defeat body...

Heckler & Koch GmbH is a German defense manufacturing company that produces various small arms, for example the MP5 submachine gun, G3 automatic rifle and the more recent G36 assault rifle, the MP7 personal defense weapon, USP series of handguns and the high-precision PSG1 sniper rifle...

The 4.6x30mm cartridge is a type of ammunition used in the H&K MP7 Personal Defense Weapon and by the H&K UCP pistol. It is designed to minimize weight and recoil while increasing penetration of body armor...

The UMP is a submachine gun developed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch. The UMP has been adopted by numerous agencies worldwide including the French Gendarmerie Nationale and U.S. Customs and Border Protection...

Heckler & Koch GmbH is a German defense manufacturing company that produces various small arms, for example the MP5 submachine gun, G3 automatic rifle and the more recent G36 assault rifle, the MP7 personal defense weapon, USP series of handguns and the high-precision PSG1 sniper rifle...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The .40 S&W is a rimless pistol cartridge developed jointly by Winchester and Smith & Wesson, two famous American firearms manufacturers. It uses .40-inch diameter bullets ranging in weight from 135 to 200 grains and operates at about 33,000 psi pressure...

The INA Model 953 is a modified Madsen M/50. It was manufactured by the Industria National de Armas S.A. in São Paulo Brazil under license for Madsen. Production began in 1950. The first Model was marked M.B.-50 and was manufactured till 1953 and was marked with a large Brazilian crest. In late...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The Intratec TEC-DC9 is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic 9x19mm Parabellum caliber firearm, classified by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms as a handgun....

Intratec was a firearm company based in Miami, Florida. The company's most famous product was the TEC-9.- History :Intratec began as Interdynamic USA, an offshoot of Swedish firearms manufacturer Interdynamic AB. Due to the lack of firearm market in Sweden, Interdynamic AB set up a subsidiary in...

The Jatimatic is a Finnish 9 mm submachine gun developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Jali Timari. The submachine gun made its debut in 1983. The Jatimatic was manufactured in very limited numbers initially by Tampereen Asepaja Oy of Tampere and later—Oy Golden Gun Ltd...

The KGP-9 is a Hungarian submachine gun used by Hungary's military forces and prison guards. It operates using a basic blowback mechanism, and fires the very popular 9mm Parabellum cartridge from an open bolt. It is assembled from pressed steel, reinforced with castings...

The Kommando LDP is a submachine gun of Rhodesian origin manufactured by Kommando Arms during the Aparthied Era as a 'Land Defence Pistol' for white farmers. It was nicknamed the "Ruzi" since its layout is externally similar to the IMI UZI alongside being chambered in the same calibre and...

The Lettet-Forsøgs was a variant of the Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun of Finnish origin adapted for Danish service. It was made from stainless steel with a tubular buttstock and a distinctive ball-shaped wooden foregrip intended to improve ergomomic flexibility for the user when handling the weapon...

INDEP - Indústrias Nacionais de Defesa, EP , originally Fábrica do Braço de Prata , is a defense industry company owned by the Portuguese Government....

The M3 was an American .45-caliber submachine gun that entered US Army service on December 12, 1942 as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal...

General Motors Company, often known as simply GM, is a United States based automaker with headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. GM was the world's 18th largest corporate entity and third largest automaker as ranked by 2008 revenues on the Fortune Global 500. Ranked by global unit sales for 2008, it...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The United Defense M42 was an American submachine gun in World War II. It was produced from 1942 to 1943 by United Defense Supply Corp. for possible issue as a replacement for the Thompson submachine gun and was used by agents of the Office of Strategic Services .-History:The M42 was developed by...

The Marlin Firearms Company of North Haven, Connecticut manufactures Marlin Rifles.Over the company's 130+ years of firearms production, it has been best known for its manufacture of high power, center fire, lever action, and .22 caliber rimfire rifles, as well as shotguns, derringers and revolvers...

H & R Firearms is a Remington Arms-owned manufacturer of firearms, especially single-shot shotguns. They manufacture firearms under the New England Firearms and Harrington & Richardson trademarks.-History:...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...

The Madsen M-50 or M/50 is a submachine gun adopted in 1950 . It was produced by the Danish company Dansk Industri Syndikat of located in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company was otherwise known as Madsen after its founder Vilhelm Herman Oluf Madsen...

The MAS-38 was a French submachine gun designed prior to the Second World War and used by French, German and Italian forces.-History:The Pistolet Mitrailleur MAS modèle 38 was developed from the experimental MAS-35 itself derived from the STA 1922 and the MAS 1924 both in 9mm produced immediately...

The 7.65mm Longue was a straight, rimless cartridge used in the French Modele 1935 pistols, as well as the MAS-38 submachine gun....

The MAT-49 was a submachine gun developed by French arms factory Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Tulle for use by the French Army.-Development:...

The MEMS M-52/60 is a submachine gun of Argentine origin. It is chambered in the 9mm round and fed from a 40 round magazine inserted in the forward pistol grip.-Specifications:Length: Stock Extended - 800 mm Stock Retracted - 640 mm Barrel - 180 mm...

The MGP-15 is a submachine gun designed for issue to special forces made by SIMA-CEFAR, updated with a longer barrel and a forward-facing magazine...

The Peruvian Navy is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with surveillance, patrol and defense on lakes, rivers and the Pacific Ocean up to 200 nautical miles from the Peruvian littoral...

The MGV-176 is a submachine gun chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge.It was manufactured in Yugoslavia by Gorenje from Velenje until 1979. Production continued in Slovenia where it is apparently still manufactured by Orbis....

Gorenje is the largest Slovenian manufacturer of home appliances, and with its share of 4%, it is one of the eight largest manufacturers of home appliances in Europe...

The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...

This article is about the submachine gun. For the paleontological zone referred to as MP 18, see Mammal Paleogene zones.The MP18.1 manufactured by Theodor Bergmann Waffenbau Abteilung was the first practical submachine gun used in combat...

The MP35 was a submachine gun used by the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and German police both before and during World War II...

The MP 38 and MP 40 is a submachine gun developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by paratroopers, platoon and squad leaders, and other troops during World War II...

Erfurter Maschinenfabrik was a German weapons manufacturer founded in 1922 by Berthold Geipel. During World War II they manufactured the famous MP40, several other SMGs were also produced and manufactured during this time.-Post War:...

The Orinoco II is a open-bolt sub-machine gun made in Venezuela by C.A.V.I.M. .-History:...

Orita was a 9mm submachine gun manufactured in Romania during World War II and for several years afterwards. It was named for Captain Marin Orița , who is credited in Romania with its design...

The Kingdom of Romania was the old Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the first three Constitutions of Romania...

John Lysaght Pty Ltd was founded in 1918. The company pioneered modern steel coating technologies . Its coated steel building products were sold under the ‘ORB’ brand and contributed to Australian architectural style.-History:...

Parker Hale Personal Defense Weapon is a submachine gun manufactured by the now defunct United Kingdom firearms, air rifle and firearms accessory manufacturer.-History:...

Parker Hale Ltd. was a United Kingdom firearms, air rifle and firearms accessory manufacturer, located in the Gun Quarter of the city of Birmingham, England. It was originally founded by A. G. Parker and Arthur Hale. Parker-Hale Limited began manufacturing high quality precision shooting...

The Pistola Ametralladora Patria is a submachine gun of Argentine origin and is a close copy of the Ingram MAC-10 and features a cooling jacket/barrel extension much like the South African BXP....

The PM-63 RAK is a Polish 9mm submachine gun, designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc in cooperation with Tadeusz Bednarski, Grzegorz Czubak and Marian Wakalski...

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

The .380 ACP pistol cartridge is a rimless, straight-walled pistol cartridge developed by firearms designer John Browning. It was introduced in 1908 by Colt, and has been a popular self-defense cartridge ever since...

The PM-84 Glauberyt is a Polish submachine gun. It is a personal weapon intended for combat and self-defense at ranges up to 150 m with single shot or fully automatic fire mode. It features compact design, minimum overall dimensions, small weight, very good accuracy, and fire stability...

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

Izhevsk Mechanical Works or IZHMASH is a weapons manufacturer based in Izhevsk, founded in 1807 at the decree of Tsar Alexander I, and is now one of the largest corporations in its field. It makes the famous Kalashnikov series of assault rifle, along with a host of other Russian arms, including...

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

The .380 ACP pistol cartridge is a rimless, straight-walled pistol cartridge developed by firearms designer John Browning. It was introduced in 1908 by Colt, and has been a popular self-defense cartridge ever since...

The PP-90 is a Russian 9 mm submachine gun, developed by the KBP Instrument Design Bureau in Tula for use with special units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs...

KBP Instrument Design Bureau is a Russian developer and manufacturer of high-precision weapons. It was established in 1927 in Tula, USSR. Arkady Shipunov has been the Designer General since 1962...

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

The Samopal PP-93 submachine gun was developed in the 1990s at the KBP Instrument Design Bureau in Tula for use by security and law enforcement units...

KBP Instrument Design Bureau is a Russian developer and manufacturer of high-precision weapons. It was established in 1927 in Tula, USSR. Arkady Shipunov has been the Designer General since 1962...

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

The PP-2000 is an advanced submachine gun made by the KBP Instrument Design Bureau.It was first publicly displayed at the Interpolytech-2004 exhibition in Moscow even though its patent was filed in 2001 and issued in 2003.-Overview:...

KBP Instrument Design Bureau is a Russian developer and manufacturer of high-precision weapons. It was established in 1927 in Tula, USSR. Arkady Shipunov has been the Designer General since 1962...

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

The PPD is a submachine gun originally designed in 1934. The PPD had a conventional wooden stock, fired from an open bolt, and was capable of selective fire....

The Degtyarev plant is one of the most important weapon-producing enterprises of Russia....

The PPSh-41 submachine gun was one of the most mass produced weapons of its type of World War II. It was designed by Georgi Shpagin as an inexpensive alternative to the PPD-40. The PPSh operated with simple blowback action, had a box or drum magazine, and fired the 7.62x25mm pistol round...

The Pistol Mitralieră model 1996 RATMIL is a blowback operated, folding stock submachine gun chambered in 9mm Luger used by the Romanian gendarmes. Initially developed as the 9mm PM md. 96, the developer's name, back then RATMIL, was added to the name, in order to distinguish it from the Assault...

The QCW-05 is a suppressed submachine gun...

The China North Industries Corporation , official English name Norinco, manufactures vehicles , machinery, optical-electronic products, oil field equipment, chemicals, light industrial products, explosives and blast materials, civil and military firearms and ammunition, etc...

The 5.8x21mm cartridge is a Chinese armor-piercing firearm cartridge.The cartridge was designed for replacements of 7.62x25mm Tokarev-chambered small arms for the People's Liberation Army that would offer a wound as large as a standard 9x19mm Parabellum round. This round is offered in both a...

The Ruger MP9 is a 9mm submachine gun/machine pistol introduced by Sturm, Ruger in 1995. It was created by Uziel Gal in the early 1980s. It is similar to the Uzi, his most famous creation, using a telescoping bolt, but fires from a closed bolt. The gun also has a quickly detachable barrel that is...

Sturm, Ruger & Company, Incorporated is a Fairfield, Connecticut-based firearm manufacturing company, better known by the shortened name Ruger. Sturm, Ruger produces bolt-action, semi-automatic, full-automatic, and single-shot rifles; shotguns; semi-automatic pistols; and single-action and...

Česká zbrojovka a.s. Uherský Brod is a Czech firearms manufacturer.-History:CZUB was established in 1936 as a branch of the Česká zbrojovka Armament firm in the small Moravian town of Uherský Brod in Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic....

The Saab Bofors Dynamics CBJ-MS is a personal defense weapon manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics for Sweden.- External links :*...

Saab Bofors Dynamics, located in Karlskoga, Sweden, is a subsidiary of Saab AB that specializes in military materiel such as missile systems and anti-tank systems....

The Sanna-77 is the end of a line of submachine guns which can trace their existence and lineage to the days of Rhodesia and their UDI, or Unilateral Declaration of Independence in the early 1960s...

The SIG MKMS was sub-machine gun designed by Schweizerishe Industrie-Gesellshaft company in Neuhausen during the early 1930s and was first introduced in 1933. It was designed for the military and to increase firepower it had a larger capacity magazine as well as a longer barrel, one that would be...

Česká zbrojovka a.s. Uherský Brod is a Czech firearms manufacturer.-History:CZUB was established in 1936 as a branch of the Česká zbrojovka Armament firm in the small Moravian town of Uherský Brod in Czechoslovakia, now in the Czech Republic....

9x18mm Makarov is a Soviet pistol and submachine gun cartridge. It was a standard Eastern Bloc alternative to the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge.-History:...

The .380 ACP pistol cartridge is a rimless, straight-walled pistol cartridge developed by firearms designer John Browning. It was introduced in 1908 by Colt, and has been a popular self-defense cartridge ever since...

The .32 ACP pistol cartridge is a semi-rimmed, straight-walled cartridge developed by firearms designer John Browning, for use in the FN M1900 semi-automatic pistol. It is also known as the 7.65x17mm Browning SR or 7.65 mm Browning...

The Spectre is an Italian submachine gun that was produced by the SITES factory in Turin. It was designed by Roberto Teppa and Claudio Gritti in the mid-1980s...

The .40 S&W is a rimless pistol cartridge developed jointly by Winchester and Smith & Wesson, two famous American firearms manufacturers. It uses .40-inch diameter bullets ranging in weight from 135 to 200 grains and operates at about 33,000 psi pressure...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The Royal Small Arms Factory was a UK government-owned rifle factory in London Borough of Enfield. The factory produced British military rifles, muskets and swords from 1816...

The Sterling submachine gun is a British submachine gun which was in service with the British Army from 1953 until 1988 when it was phased out with the introduction of the L85A1.-History:...

The Steyr MPi 69 is a 9 mm submachine gun of the late 20th century made by the Austrian firm Steyr.-Characteristics:The MPi 69 is shaped much like other telescoping bolt submachineguns, such as the MAC 10 or Uzi. It has a vertical pistol handgrip into which the magazine is inserted, and a longer...

The Austrian firm Steyr-Mannlicher is a firearms manufacturer based in the city of Steyr. Originally a part of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch manufacturing conglomerate, it became independent when the conglomerate was broken in 1990.-History:...

The Steyr TMP is a select-fire 9x19mm Parabellum caliber machine pistol manufactured by the Austrian company, Steyr Mannlicher...

The Austrian firm Steyr-Mannlicher is a firearms manufacturer based in the city of Steyr. Originally a part of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch manufacturing conglomerate, it became independent when the conglomerate was broken in 1990.-History:...

The TDI Vector is a prototype .45 ACP submachine gun developed by Transformational Defense Industries. It utilizes asymmetrical recoil and in-line design to reduce recoil and muzzle climb. This operating system is called the Kriss Super V. "Kriss" refers to a Southeast Asian fighting...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The Thompson submachine gun is an American submachine gun, invented by John T. Thompson in 1919 that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight of the time, being used by both law enforcement officers and criminals...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The Type 79 but more commonly known is the first generation indigenous submachine gun used by the Chinese military, security, and police forces. The submachine gun was type classified in 1979 and entered mass production in 1983....

The China North Industries Corporation , official English name Norinco, manufactures vehicles , machinery, optical-electronic products, oil field equipment, chemicals, light industrial products, explosives and blast materials, civil and military firearms and ammunition, etc...

The Type 85 submachine gun was developed during early 1980s as a less expensive replacement for the Type 79 submachine gun, and a silenced version was also developed to replace the Type 64 silenced submachine guns which were then in service with PLA...

The Type 100 was a Japanese Submachine Gun used during World War II, and the only submachine gun produced by Japan in any quantity.-Design:...

The 8x22mm Nambu is a rimless, bottleneck handgun cartridge introduced in Japan in 1904 for the Type A Nambu pistol. It was also used in the Type 14 Nambu and Type 94 pistols, Type II machine pistol, Hino Komuro M1908 Pistol and the Type 100 submachine gun. It uses 8.2 mm bullets...

The Uru is a submachine gun made by the production firm Mekanika in 1977 for the Brazillian Army and Police Forces. License for weapons in 1988, bought the branch of FAU, which modernized the tommy-gun in model 2...

Israel Weapons Industries , formerly the small arm "Magen" division of the Israel Military Industries Ltd. Israel Weapons Industries (IWI), formerly the small arm "Magen" division of the Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI) Israel Weapons Industries (IWI), formerly the small arm "Magen" division...

The .22 Long Rifle rimfire cartridge is a long established variety of ammunition, and in terms of units sold is still by far the most common in the world today. The cartridge is often referred to simply as .22 LR and various rifles, pistols, revolvers, and even some smoothbore shotguns have...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...

The .41 Action Express is a pistol cartridge developed in the 1980s to reproduce the performance of the .41 Magnum cartridge in semi-automatic pistols.-History:...

The MP series is a family of 9x19mm Parabellum submachine guns produced in West Germany from 1963 to 1987 by Walther.-Variants:...

The .380 ACP pistol cartridge is a rimless, straight-walled pistol cartridge developed by firearms designer John Browning. It was introduced in 1908 by Colt, and has been a popular self-defense cartridge ever since...

The ZK-338 is a submachine gun and was developed by Koucký brothers who worked at the Zbrojovka Brno arms factory in Czechoslovakia. It was produced at a slow rate from 1938 and was exported as far as Latin American to Bolivia and Venezuela.-History:...

Zbrojovka Brno was a firearm and vehicle manufacturer in Brno, Czech Republic. They also made others products and tools- History :The firm was established in 1918.The Czech-Slovakian investment group J&T bought an areal of Zbrojovka Brno in 2007.-Cars:...

The .45 ACP , also known as the .45 Auto by C.I.P., is a rimless pistol cartridge designed by John Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic .45 pistol and eventually the M1911 pistol adopted by the United States Army in 1911. The .45 ACP has a good performance reputation...