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 Uzi submachine gun was designed to be a simple, ... the IDF repelled the Arab world’s combined assault with just two hundred machine guns, ten thousand rifles and 3,600 submachine guns.

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 ...

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 ...

Gun experts contacted by CNN Wednesday said it was preferable to teach young children to shoot with single-shot firearms rather than submachine guns, but added that some Uzi submachine guns can be ...

PHOENIX – "All right, full auto," the firing-range instructor tells a 9-year-old girl. She braces the Uzi submachine gun and opens fire at a black-silhouette target. But the recoil wrenches the ...

Including an Uzi submachine gun. The Post has a field day with that tidbit, with the headline, "Uzi does it at a Bx. gun buyback," and an article that begins, "A gun owner said goodbye to his ...

Rifles, handguns and an Uzi submachine gun, center, were among the firearms collected. Show Caption. Steve Sadin / Lake County News-Sun. 1 of 5.

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.