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... were based directly on the design of the [[Finland|Finnish]] 9mm Model 44 submachine gun, which in turn was based on the [[Soviet]] [[PPS-43]]. A large number o [[Category:Submachine guns]]

... (e.g., Colt [[AR-15]], [[H&K G36E]], [[TEC-9]], all [[AK-47]]s, and [[Uzi submachine gun|Uzi]]s) and other semi-automatic firearms because they possess a minimu ...ecause "It was drying up supply and driving up prices. The number of those guns used in crimes dropped because they were less available."<ref name=dud>[htt

* From the city of Pistoia, Italy, where hand-held guns (designed to be fired from horseback) were first produced in the 1540s.<ref ...y simplest pistols. The earliest handguns were single-shot, muzzle-loading guns with ignition provided by inserting a smoldering match cord into a [[touch

...production today but has been supplanted in many cases by the Czech CZ-75B 9mm. * '''[[Walther P38|Walther P 38]]''': 9mm luger pistol designed in 1938 which officially replaced Luger during WW2.

*[[AR-24|Armalite AR-24]] (9mm Semi-Auto Pistol) *[[Beretta|Beretta Machine Guns]]

...ense weapon]]s (PDWs), all of which are sometimes designated as submachine guns. *[[Colt 9mm SMG]]

|cartridge= [[7.65x22mm Parabellum]]<br>[[9mm Parabellum]] ...the pistol for which the [[9x19mm Parabellum]] (also commonly known as the 9mm Luger) cartridge was developed.

|name= M3 submachine gun |type= [[submachine gun]]

|type= [[submachine gun]] ...eUQ&dq=The%20MP40%20submachine%20gun&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=&f=false The MP40 submachine gun]. Zenith Imprint. p. 75. ISBN 0760310149.</ref>

...m submachine gun usually refers to larger automatic firearms. Typically, a submachine gun's operating mechanism is scaled down from that of a full-sized machine ...acy to defend themselves. It had a newly developed pistol cartridge, the [[9mm Parabellum]], which was designed for low recoil without sacrificing penetra

[[Image:9mm pistol magazine.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A staggered-column [[9 mm Luger Parab ...]n [[RPK]] light machine gun and the [[United States|American]] [[Thompson submachine gun]].

...897647/pg_1 .38-44 HV: The Original Magnum - revolver round] Chuck Taylor; Guns Magazine, May, 2000</ref> ...has been significant improvement in metallurgy and quality since the first guns in those calibers have been made, with the result that higher pressures are

....</ref><ref>Lucas Timmons, [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/05/17/guns-confiscation.html "RCMP gun confiscations prompt legal fight"]. CBC News, [ ...iably result in the denial of the application but criminals just get their guns anyway, through the black market.

...tions allow the use of larger cartridges and were popular in early machine guns. ...e made by [[Hi-Point Firearms]], and semi-automatic versions of blowback [[submachine gun]]s. In contrast, locked-breech mechanisms are used for some .32, .380 p

...g to buy their new products and flooding the firearms market with used S&W guns, cutting into their market share. ...t Magnum"; a popular magnum revolver when police officers still used wheel guns

|type= [[Submachine gun]] ...Gun]], designed to circumvent then-existing U.S. laws defining a [[Machine guns|machine gun]]. The Sputter Gun, lacking a [[trigger]], was designed to fire

|type= [[Submachine gun]] ...') was a family of [[United Kingdom|British]] [[9x19mm Parabellum|9 mm]] [[submachine gun]]s used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout [[Wor

...achine guns. A conversion kit used to transform any rifle variant into the submachine gun is also available. It consists of a barrel, bolt, adapter insert and ma [[Image:AUG 9mm 03.jpg|thumb|Steyr AUG 9 mm.]]

Three tables, one per century, of pistol, submachine gun, rifle, revolver and machine gun cartridges by year. A fourth table, s | align=center| Germany || 9 &times; 19 mm || AKA 9 mm Parabellum ||[[Image:9mm Parabellum (Luger).jpg|100px]]

...umb|right|350px|External view of [[Uzi]] and [[MP40]] submachineguns, both 9mm submachineguns with a 10" (250mm) barrel, showing size advantage that teles ...e barrel. This feature reduces the required length of a weapon such as a [[submachine gun]] significantly, and it allows rifle designs to be balanced around the