The Uzi, designed by Major Uziel Gal and adopted by the Israel Defense Forces in 1955, is one of history’s most iconic submachine guns. Its innovative design, inspired by the Czech CZ 25, featured a ...

The IDF placed its first orders for the Uzi in 1954. The submachine gun’s baptism by fire occurred in 1956, when Israeli paratroopers of Unit 202 sized the Mitla Pass in the Sinai Peninsula.

Uziel Gal examines his submachine gun in 1956, two years after it was adopted by the Israel Defense Forces. The general history of the Uzi is well-understood.

The Uzi, Israel’s first military export, was sold during the 1960s to developing countries, where the gun found its way onto the black market and into the hands of criminals.

A man experimenting with a magnet plucked a fully-loaded Uzi submachine gun and several other weapons out of a pond in Massachusetts, reports say.. The unnamed individual called the police after ...

Uzi Gal, who invented the Uzi submachine gun favored by military commandos, Secret Service agents, underworld figures and a variety of Hollywood film characters, has died. He was 79.

Girl, 9, said Uzi submachine gun was "too much." — -- The family a 9-year-old girl who accidentally shot her gun instructor when she lost control of a powerful Uzi submachine gun said today ...

The instructor, 39-year-old Charles Vacca, died at a hospital Monday after he was shot in the head.The weapon was an Uzi, an Israeli-made submachine gun that some experts said had way too much ...

She braces the Uzi submachine gun and opens fire at a black-silhouette target. But the recoil wrenches the fully automatic weapon upward, and the instructor is shot in the head and killed.

After the three-hour event, police and church officials displayed the collection of rifles, shotguns, handguns and one Uzi submachine gun on five tables to demonstrate the breadth of what was ...

The Uzi submachine gun was designed to be a simple, inexpensive weapon that would overcome the logistical problems of a ragtag army turning professional. In doing so it became a commercial success ...