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Half-decent SMG that the Yanks used in WW2, along with a load of gangsters in the twenties and thirties who liked the extent to which they could shoot the crap out of each other with it. Went through a number of changes between the first model in 1928 and the guns used in WW2, but none of them did much to change the fact that it was bloody heavy and less accurate than a spud gun. It was, however, well made and better than the Sten our lads were stuck using until the Yanks kindly sent us a load. Some were also made in the [[Birmingham]] small arms factory.
Half-decent SMG that the Yanks used in [[WW2]], along with a load of gangsters in the twenties and thirties who liked the extent to which they could shoot the crap out of each other with it. Went through a number of changes between the first model in 1928 and the guns used in WW2, but none of them did much to change the fact that it was bloody heavy and less accurate than a spud gun. It was, however, well made and better than the [[Sten Machine Carbine|Sten]] our lads were stuck using until the Yanks kindly sent us a load. Some were also made in the [[Birmingham]] small arms factory.


Also known as the 'Tommy-gun.' Using the name for any other SMG is just wrong.
Also known as the 'Tommy-gun.' Using the name for any other SMG is just wrong.
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Revision as of 23:41, 26 May 2007

Half-decent SMG that the Yanks used in WW2, along with a load of gangsters in the twenties and thirties who liked the extent to which they could shoot the crap out of each other with it. Went through a number of changes between the first model in 1928 and the guns used in WW2, but none of them did much to change the fact that it was bloody heavy and less accurate than a spud gun. It was, however, well made and better than the Sten our lads were stuck using until the Yanks kindly sent us a load. Some were also made in the Birmingham small arms factory.

Also known as the 'Tommy-gun.' Using the name for any other SMG is just wrong.