Doc Intrepid
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If anyone knows the answer, I'm sure that some of the members here will have an explanation. Here is the issue:
I'm informed that "7.62mm Submachine guns" are in current use by various law enforcement or military organizations (outside the US).
I'm familiar with 7.62mm x 55mm; 7.62mm x 51mm; and 7.62mm x 39mm cartridges, but none of these are pistol cartridges. The weapons that fire these rounds are machineguns, not submachine guns.
AFAIK the definition of a Submachine gun is that it is a fully-automatic weapon that fires pistol cartridges.
I'm aware that historically there once were Soviet 7.62mm Submachine guns that fired 7.62mm x 25mm Tokarev pistol rounds during World War II.
Courtesy of Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62×25mm_Tokarev
But as far as I know this is now considered a historical weapon, not something that would be manufactured or issued to a military or paramilitary organization in 2015.
Does anyone here know of a currently manufactured submachine gun that chambers a 7.62mm pistol cartridge?
Thanks in advance!
I'm informed that "7.62mm Submachine guns" are in current use by various law enforcement or military organizations (outside the US).
I'm familiar with 7.62mm x 55mm; 7.62mm x 51mm; and 7.62mm x 39mm cartridges, but none of these are pistol cartridges. The weapons that fire these rounds are machineguns, not submachine guns.
AFAIK the definition of a Submachine gun is that it is a fully-automatic weapon that fires pistol cartridges.
I'm aware that historically there once were Soviet 7.62mm Submachine guns that fired 7.62mm x 25mm Tokarev pistol rounds during World War II.
Courtesy of Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPSh-41
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62×25mm_Tokarev
But as far as I know this is now considered a historical weapon, not something that would be manufactured or issued to a military or paramilitary organization in 2015.
Does anyone here know of a currently manufactured submachine gun that chambers a 7.62mm pistol cartridge?
Thanks in advance!