The ML-57 is a
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 ...
manufactured by the
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
-based
Halcon corporation
Halcon or Halcones, may refer to:
People
* Pequeño Halcón (aka Rogelio Espinoza López), Mexican masked wrestler
* Super Halcón Jr. (born 1987), Mexican masked wrestler
* El Halcón (born 1947, as José Luis Melchor Ortiz), Mexican masked wre ...
.
Overview
The weapon is chambered in
9mm Parabellum for the
Argentine Army
The Argentine Army ( es, Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of Argentina. Under the Argentine Constitution, the president of Argentina is the commander- ...
and in .45 ACP for
Police Forces, fed from 30-round magazines.
Variants
ML-60
A later variant of the ML-57 was the ML-60 which housed a two trigger group which enabled select fire capabilities.
See also
*
Weapons of the Salvadoran Civil War
The Salvadoran Civil War was a military conflict that pitted the guerrilla forces of the left-wing Marxist-oriented Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) against the armed and security forces loyal to the military-led conservative govern ...
References
* Walter Harold Black Smith, Joseph Edward Smith (1973)
''Small arms of the world: a basic manual of small arms'' Stackpole Books. p. 196-197.
External links
Jonas de Carvalho - Photos - Museo de armas de la Nación (Buenos Aires), 2011
Flickr.com.
Jonas de Carvalho - Museo de armas de la Nación (Buenos Aires), 2011 Halcon ML-57
Flickr.com.
9mm Parabellum submachine guns
.45 ACP submachine guns
Submachine guns of Argentina
Fábrica de Armas Halcón firearms
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