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The American-180 is a submachine gun developed in the 1960s which fires the .22 Long Rifle or .22 ILARCO cartridges from a pan magazine. The concept began with the Casull Model 290 that used a flat pan magazine similar to designs widely used prior to World War II. Only 87 Casull M290s were built, as the weapon was expensive to manufacture. [ 5]
A semi-automatic pistol is a type of handgun which utilizes the energy of the fired cartridge to cycle the action of the weapon and advance the next available cartridge into position for firing. One round is fired each time the trigger of a semi-automatic pistol is pulled. (The following list table is sortable.) Pistola Aut. Celmi.
The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. . The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe as a replacement for the ...
A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of fully automatic fire, including stockless handgun -style submachine guns. [ 1 ] The Austrians introduced the world's first machine pistol, the Steyr Repetierpistole M1912/P16, during World War I. The Germans also experimented with machine pistols, by converting various types of semi-automatic ...
The Military Armament Corporation Model 11, officially abbreviated as " M11 " or " M-11 ", and commonly known as the MAC-11, is a machine pistol / submachine gun developed by American firearm designer Gordon Ingram at the Military Armament Corporation (MAC) during the 1970s in Powder Springs, Georgia, United States. [ 5][ 6] The weapon is a sub ...
The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the " Tommy gun ", " Chicago typewriter ", or " trench broom ") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918. It was designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare of World War I, although ...
A M2 Browning machine gun, surrounded by ejected cartridge cases. An automatic firearm or fully automatic firearm (to avoid confusion with semi-automatic firearms) is a self-loading firearm that continuously chambers and fires rounds when the trigger mechanism is actuated. The action of an automatic firearm is capable of harvesting the excess ...
.22 Long Rifle.22 Short Magnum United States: 1960s SMG August Coenders belt-fed machine gun [1] August Coenders 9x19mm Germany: WW2 other ARCO Abider Armament Research Company .45 ACP United States: 1953 SMG A.R.C. Weapons System 9x19mm / .45 ACP United States: 1984 SMG ASMI: Lokesh Machines Limited 9×19mm Parabellum India: 2021 SMG AR-57 ...