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Type of automatic firearm
A submachine gun (SMG) or sub-gun 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 automatic firearm with notably less firepower than a machine gun. As a machine gun must fire rifle cartridges to be classified as such, submachine guns are not considered machine guns. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Submachine gunA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Lightning Gun: How the Blyskawica Submachine Gun Revolutionized WarfareInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: TommyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Controversial Suicide Case Using a Submachine Gun with a Sound Suppressor—The Need of Team Work of Forensic Chemistry and Firearm ExaminersCited 11 times
- Go sideways: Machine pistolA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MP 18A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Controversial Suicide Case Using a Submachine Gun with a Sound Suppressor—The Need of Team Work of Forensic Chemistry and Firearm Examiners
Sun, Sand and Submachine Guns: Tourism in a Militarized Xinjiang, China
Atypical Suicide by Submachine Gun
Submachine gun and rifle silencers with a type Multi-Y front cover
Submachine Guns and Electronic Schoolmarms: A True Crime Western
Silencers with spherical baffles for submachine guns
Submachine guns in the armed forces of the NATO countries
Distribution of gunshot residue particles of a submachine gun fired at cotton fabric from the nearest vicinity – A study by means of SEM-EDX technique
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Lightning Gun: How the Blyskawica Submachine Gun Revolutionized Warfare
Modelling and Testing the Dynamic Properties in a Submachine Gun-Man System
DESIGN OF A SPORTS SUBMACHINE GUN MPM 9 „BOHR”. PART III – DESCRIPTION OF THE DESIGN
DESIGN OF A SPORTS SUBMACHINE GUN MPM 9 „BOHR”. PART II – BASIC CONSTRUCTION CALCULATIONS
DESIGN OF A SPORTS SUBMACHINE GUN MPM 9 „BOHR”. PART IV – CREATING A FUNCTIONAL MOCK-UP
📚 Books worth reading
TommyKaren Blumenthal · 2015
Pictorial history of the sub-machine gunFrank William Arthur Hobart · 1973
MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine GunsAlejandro de Quesada, Johnny Shumate · 2012
Submachine gun designer's handbookG. Dmitrieff · 1981
Assault pistols, rifles, and submachine gunsDuncan Long · 1986- 📕The Worlds Submachine GunsThomas B. Nelson · 1963
Complete Encyclopedia of Automatic Army RiflesA. E. Hartink · 2003
The gun that made the Twenties roarWilliam J. Helmer · 1969
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