German MP40 "Maschinenpistole .40" submachine gun, .40 caliber. General History The Maschinenpistole 40, commonly known as the MP40, is similar to the Thompson, but uses a smaller 9-mm round. This ...

Guns of World War II: Meet Nazi Germany’s MP 40 Submachine Gun Here’s What You Need to Know: This German gun had a number of disadvantages on the Eastern Front of World War II.

BrickArms, based in Redmond, Washington, manufactures 750 different tiny toy firearms. They range from historical military weapons like the M1 Garand rifle and the MP40 submachine gun, to sci fi ...

Cops found the World War II-era MP40 submachine gun, ammo and a magazine inside the 40-year-old man’s Holden Commodore after pulling him over in New South Wales Sunday night, the ABC reports.

It had an appearance that seemed similar to the MP40 and M3, and relied on a simple blowback operation that provided a rate of fire of up to 620 minutes. ... It was heavy for a submachine gun, ...

By this time, submachine guns fielded by our by our allies and adversaries such as the British STEN and the German MP40 that utilized manufacturing shortcuts such as stamped and welded sheet-metal ...

Simone Segouin, French Resistance fighter, dies at 97 ‘It’s true, the Germans were our enemies, it was the war, but I don’t draw any pride from it,’ she later said ...