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...1955 the IDF adopted the [[Israel Military Industries|IMI]]-produced [[Uzi submachine gun]]. The Uzi was a superb automatic weapon, but it had one major drawback ... built 5.56 mm [[R4 assault rifle]], a license-built copy of the Israeli [[IMI Galil|Galil]].

...ms]], requiring the services of more than one crewman, just like artillery guns. Generally, an automatic firearm designed for a single user is referred to For handguns and long guns, the [[projectile]] is a [[bullet]], or in historical [[cannons]], a [[cann

...un]]s, intended more for sustained automatic fire in a support role, and [[submachine gun]]s, which fire a handgun cartridge rather than a rifle cartridge. Assau | colspan="5"| Externally resembling the [[Israel]]i [[IMI Galil]], internally similar to the [[Heckler & Koch HK33]], the FARA 83 was

*[[Beretta|Beretta Machine Guns]] ***[[Beretta 92|98FS]] (Italy - Pistol - 9 x 21 mm IMI)

...vations of conflicts during the 1930s, and dissatisfaction with existing [[submachine gun]]s and rifles contributed to the development of the M1 Carbine. ...nsufficiently accurate or powerful. Submachine guns such as the [[Thompson submachine gun|Thompson]] were more than sufficiently powerful for close-range encount

...& Koch G3|H&K G3]] and other rifles, and even the [[Heckler & Koch MP5|MP5 submachine gun]]. Most of these other companies have since devised 40 mm grenade laun *Chile [[SIG SG 550]] and [[IMI Galil|Galil SAR]] in Chilean service and special forces (Fuerzas Especiales

...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 ...ole'', the German word for a submachine gun. In World War I, as submachine guns were found to be effective in trench warfare, experiments with converting v

....</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.

...'service weapons' in the truest sense, certain specialist [[rifle]]s and [[submachine gun]]s are categorized as such if issued as per standard operating procedur [[Image:Galil.jpg|thumb|IMI Galil assault rifle]]

Three tables, one per century, of pistol, submachine gun, rifle, revolver and machine gun cartridges by year. A fourth table, s | align=center| USA ||12.7 x 99 mm|| used in Heavy Machine Guns and [[anti-materiel rifle]]s ||[[Image:50 Browning Machine Gun.jpg|100px]]

|type= [[submachine gun]] / [[machine pistol]] ... (Hebrew:עוזי, officially cased as '''UZI''') is a related family of [[submachine gun]]s. Smaller variants are more accurately considered [[machine pistol]]s

... cartridge. The 9 mm Parabellum is commonly used in [[Handgun|pistols]], [[submachine gun]]s and [[carbine]]s. ...aluminium-cased ammunition is manufactured by [[Israel Military Industries|IMI]] in [[Israel]] under the "Samson" brand name and by [[Alliant Techsystems]

...M1911 Colt pistol|M1911A1]] [[.45 ACP]] caliber handgun and .45 [[Thompson submachine gun]]. The weapon was originally issued with a straight 15-round detachable ...e effect began to surface, and like the [[.45 ACP]] used in the [[Thompson submachine gun]] and [[M1911 Colt pistol]], some troops found the .30 Carbine cartridg

...are coming! The Russians are coming! Or maybe the Polish by Holt Bodinson, Guns Magazine / Sept, 2008]</ref> ... to amputate.<ref>The Gun Digest Book of the AK & SKS: A Complete Guide to Guns, Gear and Ammunition. By Patrick Sweeney. Gun Digest Books, 2009. page 104-

...s firefights. As a result, armies sought a cartridge and rifle combining [[submachine gun]] features (large-capacity magazine, selective-fire) with an intermedia ...tion along with designs by A.A Demetev and F. Bulkin. In late 1946, as the guns were being tested, one of Kalashnikov's assistants, Aleksandr Zaytsev, sugg

...ht, selective fire weapon with effective range of fire much longer than of submachine gun, but shorter than of conventional semi-automatic or bolt action rifles. ...chieve an (imperfectly) ambidextrous weapon. [[Israel Military Industries|IMI]] of Israel made the move to bullpup. Having learnt from the extensive com