This is a list of submachine guns.
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Submachine gun
A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, to describe its design concept as an autom ...
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Machine pistol
A machine pistol is an autoloading pistol capable of fully automatic fire. The term can also be used to describe a stockless handgun-style submachine gun. The term is a calque of ''Maschinenpistole'', the German word for submachine guns. Machine ...
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Personal defense weapon
Personal defense weapons (PDWs) are a class of firearms intended for self-defense and security rather than warfare and infantry. Most PDWs fire a small-caliber (less than ), centerfire bottleneck cartridge resembling a scaled-down intermediate ...
systems (PDW), and "compact submachine gun-like weapons" not easily categorized. Weapons may fit in more than one category.
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List of PDWs
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List of machine pistols
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List of firearms
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, flamethrowers, multipl ...
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List of weapons
This is an index of lists of weapons.
By time period
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List of bolt-action rifles
Bolt action, Bolt-action rifles are an evolution of the lever-action rifle, offering greater accuracy and stronger receiver (firearms), receivers. Bolt actions require the user to manually cycle the bolt (firearms), bolt after each round is fired ...
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List of carbines
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List of bullpup firearms
The following is a list of firearms designed in a bullpup (i.e., action behind firecontrol/trigger group) configuration.
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Bullpup firearms
A bullpup firearm is one with its fir ...
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List of machine guns
This is a list of machine guns and their variants.
The tables are sortable.
See also
*List of firearms
*List of multiple-barrel firearms
References
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List of assault rifles
An assault rifle is a rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge, a detachable magazine, and can switch between semi-automatic/fully automatic fire. Assault rifles are currently the standard service rifles in most modern armies. Some rifles listed ...
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List of sniper rifles
This article is a listing of major precision rifle variants used by snipers from around the world.
A hunting or precision rifle equipped with a telescopic optic has been long described as a sniper rifle. Below is the list of precision rifles us ...
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List of shotguns
This article is a list of shotguns. Shotguns have traditionally fired iron, stone or lead shot stored in large shells that are normally loaded.
See also
* Assault shotgun
*Automatic shotgun
*Combat shotgun
*List of bullpup firearms
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List of pistols
This is a list of pistols. The list covers manually operated and semi-automatic/machine pistols:
See also
*List of firearms
*List of assault rifles
*List of machine guns
*List of multiple-barrel firearms
*List of revolvers
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List of revolvers
This is a list of single- and double-action revolvers, listed alphabetically by manufacturer.
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*List of firearms
*List of multiple-barrel firearms
*List of submachine guns
* List of assault rifles
*List of machine guns
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List of semi-automatic pistols 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
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Submachine guns
A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson, the inventor of the Thompson submachine gun, to describe its design concept as an automati ...