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Originally Posted by zzang1847
Everybody knows about Machine Pistols.... M93R, G18, etc...
The question is... WHY does it has very high rate of fire? Everybody knows that pistols are hard to make it accurate shot, so you gotta need to take a good aim in order to make a good shot. Although fully automatic firing is not ideal for the accurate shot, they can at least try it by lowering the rate of fire...Right?
Why do they always prefer high rate of fire for the machine pistol??
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(a) The posters who mentioned that no ARMY in the world actually uses Machine pistols is correct. They are a specialized weapon. Also Police wouldn't use them because of the high risk of collateral damage.
They are fast response weapons for attacks or ambushes. Bodyguards use them (and drug dealers
) but anyone who needs to quickly shoot their way out of an ambush at close range.
That was the notion behind the PDWs - various manufacturers have made their own versions of PDWs (the MP5K was a perfect example, and then they honed it into their own PDW. Also H&K made a PDW version of the MP7A1 (well at least according to MT2008 they did). Anyway the best personal defense weapon is something really small, but controllable, with a high rate of fire. When you got a bunch of bad guys suddenly drawing down on you, you're gonna want that high rate of fire.
Historically the MAC-10 and MAC-11 fulfilled this role to some people.