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Submachine gun/ Comapct assault rifle debate
See on a lot of pages where a rifle caliber gun is called a SMG since its small, like aks-74u is commonly called a SMG, ive seen "colt 733 smg"?
I say any rifle caliber caliber is a rifle, pistol caliber is a SMG. Should we put an official ID policy up?
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I personally agree about that. Unfortunaly you do get some weapons that do blur the line as they are a rifle converted to a pistol caliber.
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Well something like that Colt AR-15 in 9mm should be called an SMG because it fires pistol ammo.
Then we got the Cx4 Storm, which has been called a rifle, but it fires pistol rounds.
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Pistol carbine seems like it would be an appropriate nomenclature.
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That might have something to do with Colt marketing the CAR-15 series as Sub-Machine guns despite them not technically being SMGs.
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Before it was called the Sturmgewehr 44, it was called the Maschinenpistole 43. Even the AK-47 was originally issued as a submachine gun, with the SKS being the primary infantry rifle. So confusing.
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I agree with K9870 - if it was based on a full-size assault rifle, and it fires the same ammo, it's still a rifle, not a subgun. Even if the weapon's role is basically quite similar to a subgun role. But it is true that manufacturers themselves have not always respected this definition - not only with the Colt 733, but also the Daewoo K1.
Very true. The Chinese even specifically called their AK-47 copy the "Type 56 submachine gun"; they kept using AKs in the subgun role long after the Soviet states had made AKs into their standard infantry rifles.
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I think with the Chinese, what they call it in the language was just a mistranslation because they didnt have a word for Assault Rifle.
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Uh, not Storm rifle. Even though in Germanic Dictionaries, the noun for Sturm can mean "storm/Gale/Tempest" it also means "attack or Assault". Everyone assumed Hitler meant "Assault" not "bad weather" when he named the rifle.....
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Angriffgewehr 44 doesn't quite have the same punch to it.
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