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Old 04-15-2012, 06:50 AM
Mazryonh Mazryonh is offline
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Originally Posted by AdAstra2009 View Post
Your creating a definition for a submachine gun that goes further then the dictionary meaning, or then what most people would consider a smg. That is arbitrary.
I based it on the fact that the archetypal machine pistol is a handgun converted for select-fire and/or fully-automatic fire capability. That is what separates a machine pistol from other types of handguns--the ergonomics could be exactly the same (i.e., such as when you compare a Glock 18 to a Glock 17) as a similar semiautomatic-only handgun, but select-fire and/or fully-automatic fire capability would be what separate the two.
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