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The American subsidiary of Swiss gunmaker B&T has won a multi-million-dollar contract to supply the U.S. Army with a variant of its 9mm APC9 submachine gun. For almost a year, the service has been evaluating a number of proposed weapons as part of an effort to give personal security details added firepower. The Army quietly announced that it had awarded B&T USA the deal, worth more than $2.5 million, on the U.S. government’s main contracting website FedBizOpps on Mar. 29, 2019, but did not specify which weapon specifically it was buying. A trusted source familiar with the contract confirmed the...

Carlo Style Submachine gun found after attack on Israeli Car in January, 2017 In many places around the world, where firearms are very difficult to obtain legally, small shops manufacture simple submachine guns for the black market. They are common in Brazil, Israel, the Philippines, and increasingly in Australia,  Canada, and even the United States, where submachine guns are highly regulated. In Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces have turned their attention from the private owners of black market guns to the small shops that produce them. The crackdown started in 2016. From timesofisrael.com: Save for members of the Palestinian...

In late November of 2016, the leftist Guardian, in the UK, reported that 3D printers were used to make illegal submachine guns in Australia.  Reports of homemade submachine guns in Australia have become fairly common. From theguardian.com: A highly sophisticated weapons production facility using 3D printers and computers to make machine guns has been uncovered in a series of raids across the Gold Coast. Police say they found four homemade automatic submachine guns, silencers, ammunition, a replica handgun, a .45 calibre pistol and equipment used to make weapons at two Nerang businesses, as well as a pill press. The...

On 9 February 2017, in Israel at the city of Petah Tikva, a Palestinian identified as Sadeq Nasser Abu Mazen, attempted a terror attack. The attack was not very successful.  One man was shot in the leg, and a couple of others were hit by bullet fragments or shards of material fragmented by bullets. The weapon that failed in this attack was a small shop produced submachine gun.The Israeli term for improvised submachine guns is a “Carlo”.  The term derives from the similarity to the Carl Gustav M/45 9mm submachine gun.  The Carl Gustav was made under license for...

The author sets the learning curve to full auto at his very first submachine gun competition. It's the first stage of my first match and I’m nervous. The range officer asks, "Shooter ready?" and I nod, almost reluctantly. The buzzer sounds and I raise my Uzi submachine gun, sight in on a plate rack downrange, and trigger a burst. The staccato bark of my gun marks the start of my first-ever subgun competition. I was at the Michigan subgun match because I wanted to do something with my registered fullauto Uzi more interesting than "busting dirt" at the local gravel...

We've all heard former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's admonition that "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." Yet the public debate about guns in America takes Moynihan's warning to the next level: Each side not only has its own facts, it has its own language. For instance, take the rush after the recent Orlando shootings to ban "assault" or "military-style" weapons like the AR-15 rifle. Gun control advocates immediately jumped to regulate sales of "automatic weapons" and "assault rifles" like the AR-15, which they deem too deadly for one individual to need. Scary stories about...

Guns are not difficult to make.  Submachine guns are some of the easiest to construct with simple tools.  Add a $100 electric welder from Harbor Freight and they become a project for a few weekends.  Once the templates and jigs are produced for a small shop, they can be turned out with a few hours of labor. Brazil has many simple homemade submachine guns showing up on its street The number found in Israel is rising.  From haaretz.com: A thin strand connects the three most recent shootings in Jerusalem. Similar to other incidents characterizing the current wave of terror,...

Blast from the past a rare early 60's tv commercial for Mattel's Tommy Burst submachine gun detective set. Maybe somebody still have this hidden in their attic. The detective set comes with the Tommy submachine gun, shoulder holster, snub-nose 38 and an ID badge. Go here to see this classic commercial from Mattel.

Those federal bureaucrats who can’t be fired want to be able to defend themselves from angry taxpayers.  Or something.  AWR Hawkins reports for Breitbart: A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks "the commercial acquisition of submachine guns [in] .40 Cal. S&W." According to the solicitation, the Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an "ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding," and a "30 rd. capacity" magazine. They also want...

Police in Thailand say that they will charge a member of the Thai parliament with causing death by negligence for accidentally shooting his secretary dead with a submachine gun. They say that the accident happened in a restaurant on Sunday night. Senator Boonsong Kowawisarat took out a 9mm Uzi submachine gun while waiting for food, the Bangkok Post reported. He told police the gun accidentally discharged and his secretary was shot in the stomach.

After 56 Years, Israel Weapons Industries Reveals the New Uzi The new Uzi Pro is designed for special forces and para-military forces. “There is no technological breakthrough in the light weapons field, but the range of weapons answers every need that arises in battle,” says Uri Amit, CEO of Israel Weapons Industries (IWI) Since the 1950s, the Uzi submachine gun has been one of the world’s most recognizable weapons. About two million units of the Uzi, manufactured by Israel Military Industries’ (IMI) Magen factory, have been sold around the world. The Micro Uzi, launched in 1990, is a shortened version...

Looking at this gun may make you recall a song on Metallica's seminal "Master of Puppets" album. Though James Hetfield sang about a mythic beast from Lovecraft novels, "The Thing That Should Not Be" could be misconstrued by the ignorant to refer to the Kel-Tec PLR-16 Pistol. It doesn't look like anything we've seen before. It's a handgun, but it has a 9.2-inch barrel. It uses a gas piston system, but the same breech-locking mechanism found on ARs. It's not an AR, but it can take AR magazines. What is this...this thing? It's one heck of a fun handgun. Despite...

Tom Maffin, senior gunsmith for Transformational Defense Industries Inc. demonstrates the company's revolutionary Kriss Super V 45 caliber submachine gun at a range on the Blackwater USA campus in Moyock, N.C. Stephen M. Katz photos | The Virginian-Pilot MOYOCK, N.C. His Ford Crown Victoria disabled by hostile fire, driver Tom Maffin scrambled from the car, crouched behind the hood and sprayed a target with automatic gunfire to cover for a passenger. Maffin's weapon: a KRISS Super V .45-caliber submachine gun.If you're military or law enforcement and haven't heard of it, chances are you soon will.Maffin is senior gunsmith for...

NEW YORK -- A man fired a machine gun into the air Monday as he walked along streets in a commercial area and was shot by police after he wouldn't drop the weapon, witnesses said. No other injuries were reported.

Acting on a tip yesterday morning from students at the Thomas Creighton Elementary School in Crescentville, police found a semiautomatic Uzi in a field three blocks from the school. Three students from the school later were taken into custody by police in connection with the find, which included a 15-round-capacity magazine loaded with five 9mm rounds, and a pocket knife, police said at a news conference yesterday. The Uzi is a military-type assault rifle made in Israel. Because of its short barrel, it can be easily concealed. The school, at 5401 Tabor Rd., was locked down and a search was...

Dayton- A shotgun, two rifles and a submachine gun were stolen from the pickup of a police SWAT team member. "We need those weapons back," said Lt. Bob Chabali, commander of the Dayton-Montgomery County Regional Special Weapons and Tactics Team. "Those weapons are used for the safety of the community. In the wrong hands, they're a menace." Authorities said Friday they did not have any suspects. Officer Gary Huber had parked his truck Thursday night under a light outside a restaurant where he had stopped to eat after SWAT team practice, Chabali said. Huber later discovered someone had broken into...

I took a few snaps at dinner this evening. This is nothing in depth or special. I can't say enough about how hard the Pakistani KBR employees work to keep our dining facility clean and well organized. They do their best to prepare the food they have as nicely as possible. The food just sucks sometimes but it seems avoidable when they don't have decent stuff to work with at times. It certainly beats going hungry or eating MREs all the time. Some folks here don't treat them very nicely. It seems to be directly proportional to how self-important they...

Israel is getting rid of the Uzi. The world-famous submachine gun is being replaced by a weapon called the Tavor, which draws on lessons the Israeli military has learned during the nearly three-year Palestinian intifada. The new weapon is lighter than the Uzi and has large vents to prevent dust clogs and sights that allow the shooter to aim with both eyes open, according to Reuters. The first Tavors, manufactured by Israel Military Industries, have been issued to elite Israeli infantry units.