It looked crude—but the M3 got the job done. Built cheap and fast, the Grease Gun became a WWII and Korea staple with solid ...

The Thompson submachine gun and the M3 submachine gun, two classic submachine guns (SMGs), helped American GIs win World War II. Both fired the same powerful and ever-beloved .45 ACP (Automatic ...

To tide things over, the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield was ... incarnations were produced during World War II. In 1953 the more sophisticated Sterling SMG was adopted by the British Army ...

However, the actual development of the submachine gun began to move forward in 1940 at the Portuguese arms factory Fabrica ... neutral throughout World War II little progress occurred until ...

The basis for the weapon was the Chinese Type 50, a blowback, open bolt submachine gun, but with its heat ... highly effective Soviet PPSh-41 of World War II. After having to settle for only ...