This is a list of submachine guns. It includes Submachine guns (SMG), Machine pistols (MP), Personal defense weapon systems (PDW), and "compact submachine gun-like weapons" not easily categorized. Weapons may fit in more than one category. 1992-? 1950/1953-? 2008-? 1995/1996-? 1984-? 1998-? 1990-? 1993-? 1999/2004-? 1964-? 1985-?

police operations involving raids or assaults on fortified or heavily defended positions. In instances where police encounter substantial armed resistance and the environment permits the use of automatic weapons without risk to innocent lives, the discriminate use of the submachine gun against barricaded criminals may be effective.'

In a world where the patrol rifle is fast becoming the primary “long arm of the law,” one might ask, why go with the concept of deploying short-barreled 9mm SMGs when the rest of the world is going with a carbine? How about these five reasons:

The MP5 is primarily aimed at police units and first response forces engaging area targets. Easy to handle, easy to control and uncompromisingly precise in an emergency. The MP5 SD, on the other hand, fulfils the weaponry requirements of specialised forces and selected special units.

2021年11月1日 · I've been doing some research on European police services lately and I found that in much of continental Europe, regular police personnel are often issued submachine guns in addition to their sidearms. This is in contrast to the US and Canada, where patrolmen are often issued rifles and/or shotguns.

The B&T APC (Advanced Police Carbine) is a family of submachine guns and rifles produced and manufactured by B&T (formerly known as Brügger & Thomet) of Switzerland. Announced in 2011, the standard series uses standard 9×19mm (APC9), .40 S&W (APC40), 10mm Auto (APC10), and .45 ACP (APC45) ammunition.

However, SMGs are still used by police (especially SWAT teams) for dealing with heavily armed suspects and by military special forces units for close-quarters combat, due to their reduced size, recoil and muzzle blast, and capability for sound suppression.

There’s probably police forces issuing the MP5 in every geographic region of the world. County SO here… All patrol has regular AR-15s. SWAT has suppressed, SBR, Full-auto AR-15s. However, we do have a few MP5s and UMP-45s spread throughout the team that basically don’t get used anymore.

2024年11月15日 · The Colt SMG saw early success with various American police forces, including the DEA, the Marshals Service, the LAPD SWAT department, the DSS, and even the United States Marine Corps. This is a partial list but covers some of the largest adopters.

2018年4月30日 · Current production models of the PP-2000, now in use by various police units across Russia, are issued with more conventional (and slightly more comfortable) side-folding shoulder stocks. Finally, after requests from elite counter-terrorism units, the Izhmash factory redesigned its PP-19 Bizon in 1994 to fire new 9x19mm service ammunition and ...