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20 or 30 round box magazine, 50 or 100 round drum magazine [24] (M1 and M1A1 models do not accept drum magazines) The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the " Tommy gun ", " Chicago typewriter ") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by United States Army Brigadier General John T. Thompson in 1918.
Auto-Ordnance Corporation. Thompson Model 1921 with Type C 100-round drum magazine. Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the United States Army Ordnance Department in 1916. [1] Auto-Ordnance is best known for the Thompson submachine gun, used as a military weapon by the Allied forces in ...
The United Defense M42, sometimes known as the Marlin for the company that did the actual manufacturing, was an American submachine gun used during 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 ...
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]
A Mini Uzi and a Heckler & Koch MP5K, two common submachine guns. 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, to describe its design concept as an automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun (hence the prefix "sub-").
EDDA submachine gun: Only one prototype made .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire Argentina: 1970s SMG Erma EMP: Erma Werke: 9×19mm Parabellum 9×23mm Largo 7.63×25mm Mauser Germany: 1931 SMG EMP 44: Erma Werke 9×19mm Parabellum Germany: 1944 SMG Experimental Model 2 submachine gun: 8×22mm Nambu Japan: 1935 SMG F1 submachine gun: Lithgow Small ...
Effective firing range. 25 m for .45 ACP variants, 50 m for .38 Super and 9mm Parabellum variants. Maximum firing range. 100 m. Feed system. 30-round magazine. Sights. Iron sights. The Ingram Model 6 is a .45 ACP caliber submachine gun that was designed by Gordon B. Ingram and manufactured from 1949 through 1952 by the Police Ordnance Company ...
Lanchester submachine gun. The Lanchester is a submachine gun ("machine carbine") manufactured by the Sterling Armaments Company between 1941 and 1945. It is an evolution from MP28/II and was manufactured in two versions, Mk.1 and Mk.1*; the latter was a simplified version of the original Mk.1, with no fire selector and simplified sights.