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The world’s simplest SMG?

Posted June 28, 2018 in Daily News, Guns & Gear, Machine Guns, Other Gear & Gadgets by ImproGuns with 132 Comments

Tags: Ghost Guns, gun design, homemade guns, homemade submachine gun, improvised firearms, Professor Parabellum,
prototype, Scrap Metal Small Arms, smg, submachine gun

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Pictured is an ultra minimal, highly compact submachine gun design which is a clear contender for the simplest
ever conceived. Disassembled It consists of only nine parts including screws and springs. Almost every main
component is fabricated using steel box section tube, including the one-piece thumb operated trigger.

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Overall this SMG measures 15 1/2″ long and weighs a mere 3 lbs unloaded. The design has no sights and is
purely a spray from the hip deal requiring the user to depress the trigger button while holding the weapon with
both hands (“one hand gripping the magazine well”) to fire. A grease-gun style cut out in the bolt allows it to be
cocked back “by inserting a finger through the ejection port, further eliminating protrusions such as a charging
handle”. According to the designer, this weapon (the pictured prototype being a non-firing mockup dummy) can
be manufactured in around two hours from under $20 worth of scrap material using not much more than a
hacksaw and a drill.

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Dummy mock-up prototype disassembled to reveal rear plug, recoil spring, bolt, trigger, barrel and square tube receiver.

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Ebook: Improvised Special Purpose SMG (For academic study purposes!)

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