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You may have heard of it. You may have even seen one. And you may have thought, “only if”. But despite the tax stamps and "civilian model blues", this amazingly hyped cutting-edge firearm is rapidly moving in many shooters’ minds from science fiction to science fact...

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It’s not an HK MP5 or a UMP. But it’s pretty close for a fraction of the cost of an HK. I’ll give it a four stars on the assumption that the 30-round mags will actually come in time...

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Sure, it looks like a M3 Grease Gun mated with a German MP40 while a Tommy gun watched, but the Belgian Vigneron is definitely it's own thing and a bargain subgun if there ever was one.

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If you remember back to high school lit class, Ernest Hemingway's work, the Old Man and the Sea, tells the classic story of man's cathartic struggle against the forces of nature. But while the novels protagonist, Santiago, symbolically swings a large stick at the seawolves eying his prize catch, it would seem the Heming-way to keep sharks away from a half-ton marlin involves a Thompson submachine gun.

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With a design that has seem more than a half century of heavy and revered use around the world, Heckler and Koch's MP5 submachine gun could in all honesty be the subgun that all others must be compared to.

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Zero to sixty is how Finnish fury goes in battle and in 1939, the mighty Soviet Red Army found this out first hand. The weapon of choice for the hearty Finnish troopers? The Suomi.

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In the US, Beretta has been long known for quality semi-automatic pistols, but around the world, the name is just as readily identified with sleek, must have subguns. Case in point, the Third world's luxery submachine gun, the Beretta M12.

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In the days of WWII, America saw it's far share of personal select fire weapons put through the trials of war: M3 Grease Gun, the M1 Carbine, the Garand and the Tommy gun come to mind. But one gun that took this same test that people rarely mention is the Reising submachine gun--likely because it did not pass.

The post The M50 Reising Submachine Gun: H&R does a subgun (VIDEO) appeared first on Guns.com.

You may love this pipsqueak round but did you know that it has been pressed into both military and police service over the years, in a rather unique series of weapons—rimfire subguns.

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The Cold War nurtured some iconic firearms, the AK47, FN FAL, and the M16 just to name a few of the biggies, but rarely does this era's favorite SMG, the Sterling submachine gun, find its way onto the shortlist.

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Guns.com tends to favor backpacks over briefcases but you could probably persuade us to switch to something little more 'fashionable' if it came with a fully loaded HK MP5.

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The Kel-Tec SUB 2000 really struck a chord with our readers when we wrote about it last year, so now meet the SU16 's French uncle, the folding Hotchkiss Universal Type subgun - a nearly forgotten piece of Cold War kit.

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