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This is a list of submachine guns. It includes Submachine guns (SMG),
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. Ma ...
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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 intermedia ...
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 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 {{Reflist * Machine guns A machine gun is a fully automatic, rifled autoloading ...
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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 * List of semi-autom ...
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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 Dismissal (also called firing) is the termination ...


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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 ...