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The Rise and Fall of the Submachine Gun

Four reasons why you don't see them anymore

Submachine guns used to be everywhere. From the trenches of World War I, to Stalingrad, to the jungles of Vietnam—you couldn’t picture a soldier without one. The MP40, the Thompson, the PPSh-41… even Hollywood kept them alive with movies like Die Hard and Invasion U.S.A. But today? You almost never see them in military service.

Why?

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