Firearms
Submachine Guns & PDWs
Pistol-calibre submachine guns and the personal defence weapons that tried to replace them, from the interwar designs to the MP7.
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Live H&K MP7 H&K's personal defence weapon and its 4.6×30 cartridge, from the 1990 PDW programme to the MP7A2: the NATO evaluation read from its sources, every published loading, the mechanism and maintenance from H&K's own operator's manuals, variant identification, suppressors and optics, and why no private American can own one. Live
Live Minebea PM-9 (M9) Japan's 9 mm machine pistol, told from the Ministry of Defense's own specification, Diet records, budget tables and contract disclosures: why paratroopers got it, the 266 guns the Ground Self-Defense Force bought, how it works, how to tell it from the Uzi family, and why no American can own one. Live
Live Škorpion vz. 61 Miroslav Rybář's 7.65 mm machine pistol, told from the Interior Ministry's 1958 request, the Czechoslovak army's training chart, CZ's own catalogue and the US Army's 1967 guide: how a police requirement became the Škorpion, how the weight in the grip slows a tiny blowback bolt, the 9 mm relatives, the Yugoslav M84 and the semi-automatic pistols, its users and notoriety, field stripping and upkeep, and what US and Michigan law make of each version. Live
Live Sterling Mk 7 Para Pistol Sterling's last new gun, a cut-down Mark 4 sub-machine gun made from late 1983: the open-bolt, select-fire Para Pistol A4 and A8 and the closed-bolt Pistol C4 and C8, told from the maker's own 1984 text, with markings, magazines and an identification plate, the mechanism and maintenance from Sterling's handbook, and why the two series lead entirely different legal lives. Live
Live ZB 47 The Holek brothers' 1947 Brno submachine gun with a 72-round magazine hidden in the stock, told from the Prague Military History Institute's trial record and Zbrojovka Brno's own manual: the 1946–48 competition it lost, the three forms and the experimental straight-walled cartridge, the 62 made, and how its bolt-driven ratchet wheel swings each round up into the chamber. Live