Submachine guns

A newly developed military weapon, the Thompson submachine gun, or tommy gun, finds an unforeseen application as the gangster s gun of choice. Its devastating firepower spurs demands for a federal gun control law. 

Ca resinate and Mg) burns for the first 200 yards for the. 30 and. 50 caliber bullets. A tracer bullet for. 45 caliber submachine gun traces for 160 yards... 

FI. An Australian submachine gun characterized by a keen balance, facility of operation and lack of recoil. It is blowback-operated and fires the 9-nun Parabellum cartridge at a cyclic rate of about 650 shots per minute. 

Welgun. Brit submachine-gun. The Welgun was one of many Brit attempts during WWII to produce a very small and light submachine-gun. It was called for by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which were at that time in Welwyn, hence the first part of the name. It was designed and built by BSA in Birmingham, and the first military trials were in early 1943. From then on there were several trials, in all of which the Welgun fared quite well, but it was never adopted, not even for the SOE... 

Machine Guns, Machine Pistols and Submachine Guns- see under Belgian Weapons... 

Munitionen und Waffen in Ger Munitions et Armes in Fr Boyepripassy i Qruzhiye (Boyevyiya Sredstva) in Russ Municiones y Armas in Span Munizioni(Proietti) e Armi in Ital]. Ammunition is any material used in warfare and designed to inflict damage upon the enemy. The term includes the complete round of ammunition as w ell as other components or elements. Reduced to its fundamentals, ammunition usually consists of a container(metallic or other material) containing propellant and a missile with/or without explosive. Weapons may be subdivided into small arms (calibers up to about 0.60" in the US) such as pistols, revolvers, carbines, rifles, submachine guns machine... 

I. Small Arms Ammunition(SAA), which includes various kinds of bullets to be fired by propellants enclosed in metallic cartridges from weapons called "small arms and which are carried by one or two men. US small arms are weapons 0.60 inch or under in caliber and include riflesfexcept recoiless), semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles, pistols, revolvers, carbines, machine guns and submachine guns. This category also includes shells used in shot gun and rifle grenades... 

RNL bullet round-nosed lead bullet S W Smith and Wesson SMG submachine gun Spl special... 

Hofer maintains that there was only one marksman at each end of the ravine Wemer tells of a total of 12. Hofer testified that a packer stood at each end and placed each victim onto the previous bodies. Then each was shot by a member of the police, with a submachine gun, per a bullet in the neck. The children were shot together with their mothers. 

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