The Benelli CB-M2 was a submachine gun designed in the early 1980s around an experimental semi-caseless 9mm cartridge developed by Franchi. The gun itself looks fairly typical, with conventional controls, a bottom-mounted magazine, and polymer […]
The LF57 was the first production submachine gun made by the Italian Franchi company. It was introduced (as you might expect) in 1957, and was adopted by the Italian Navy a few years later, in […]
The FNA-B43 (Fabbrica Nazionale d’Armie) was developed in Brescia, Italy during World War II. The Beretta M38 series of submachine guns were serving very well, but the volume of guns demanded by the war allowed […]
The PM9 was an interesting an unique submachine gun designed by Louis Debuit for the French firm Merlin and Gerin (hence the MGD name – Merlin, Gerin, Debuit) in the late 1940s and early 50s. […]
The Beretta M1938 submachine gun was designed by Beretta engineer Tulio Marengoni as an improvement on the earlier M1918 design (which was in turn based on the Villar Perosa). Developed during the mid 1930s, the […]
We have a gallery of photos not of a Bergmann MP32 submachine gun, to add to the manuals already posted on the Bergmann MP32 page in the Vault: The bolt handle on the MP32 does […]
Starting in the 1920s, SIG Neuhausen tried to develop a popular submachine gun, with little success. To a significant extent, I think the Swiss manufacturing philosophy was just not well adapted to the world standard […]
The MP32 (also known as the Bergmann Machine Pistol 32 or BMP32) was designed by Emil Bergmann, son of noted German designer Theodore Bergmann. The first batch of guns were made by the Danish firm […]
Thanks to our friend Hrachya, to day we have a manual for the Russian PP2000 submachine gun. The PP2000 is a very recent development, and has been in use with the Russian Ministry of the […]
I see that Oleg Volk is posting some photos of the Vz61 Skorpion pistol/SMG, so I figure we should follow suit. We’ll do the mechanical, and leave the artistic in his capable hands. The Vz61 […]
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