“A personal defense weapon (PDW) is a compact semi-automatic or fully automatic firearm similar in most respects to a submachine gun, but firing a (often proprietary) rifle round, giving a PDW better range, accuracy and armor-penetrating capability than submachine guns, which fire pistol-caliber cartridges. The class of weapon as it exists today evolved as a hybrid between a submachine gun and a carbine, retaining the compact size and ammunition capacity of the former while adding the ammunition power, accuracy and penetration of the latter.”
Silly rabbits—mere citizens can’t be trusted with such nifty weapons: PDW’s!
Only hired hands of government alphabet-soup agencies that sound like something Orwell would dream up, if he reported to Heinrich Himmler circa 1940, are qualified to handle them.
(Naming contest, 2nd Place: Department of Fatherland Schutzstaffel)
Edward Abbey:
"The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state controlled police and the military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy .... If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government - and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."