How to recognise submachine guns
5 submachine guns in Spotrep’s field guide, each with a photo, where it comes from, who uses it and the details that tell it apart from the rest.
Practise in Classic- FN P90SMGs · Belgium
Rounded one-piece bullpup with a thumb-hole grip and a translucent magazine lying flat along the top.
- HK MP7SMGs · Germany
Very compact, angular polymer gun with the magazine inside the pistol grip, a folding front grip and a telescoping stock.
- No photo yetHK MP5SMGs · Germany
Compact gun with a slim, steeply curved magazine, a drum rear sight, a cocking tube above the barrel and a sliding or fixed stock.
- No photo yetPP-19 BizonSMGs · Russia
AK-based submachine gun with a large cylindrical helical magazine running under the barrel.
- No photo yetUziSMGs · Israel
Boxy steel receiver, magazine inside the pistol grip, a grip safety at the back of the grip and a folding metal stock.
