{"id":27016,"date":"2025-05-17T08:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/qa-all-about-submachine-guns-may-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T08:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T13:01:31","slug":"qa-all-about-submachine-guns-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/qa-all-about-submachine-guns-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: All About Submachine Guns (May 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pbDOauCKvWA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Q&#038;A is brought to you by the fine folks at Patreon! Join us to help support Forgotten Weapons, get videos without ads, and to submit your questions for future Q&#038;A videos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s Q&#038;A theme is submachine guns:<\/p>\n<p>0:00:41 &#8211; Do different nationalities have culturally distinctive submachine guns or gun features?<br \/>0:04:25 &#8211; What was the first SMG? German or Italian?<br \/>0:06:11 &#8211; Magazine loadouts for submachine guns<br \/>0:08:08 &#8211; Why is the MP5 still viable and popular today?<br \/>0:11:09 &#8211; Do SMGs still have a role in light of short carbines and .300 Blackout?<br \/>0:14:55 &#8211; Would 10mm close the gap between SMG and rifle?<br \/>0:20:19 &#8211; Why no SMGs in .357 Mag or .44 Mag?<br \/>0:22:35 &#8211; Why is the Sten magazine bad, and what makes a good SMG mag?<br \/>0:27:01 &#8211; Does the US military still have any issued SMGs?<br \/>0:28:06 &#8211; Did the Sten really have problems running away?<br \/>0:30:16 &#8211; Why no British SMG before WW2?<br \/>0:32:21 &#8211; Difference between PCC and SMG<br \/>0:34:46 &#8211; Why re some 9mm mags straight and some curved?<br \/>0:36:18 &#8211; Why are people still making simple blowback SMGs today?<br \/>0:38:13 &#8211; Why so little development of open bolt SMGs today?<br \/>0:40:15 &#8211; Coupled magazines for the UD42<br \/>0:42:50 &#8211; Where would one go to learn to shoot submachine guns?<br \/>0:43:58 &#8211; Without Knob Creek, are there any more national SMG matches?<br \/>0:45:04 &#8211; The MP5 trigger is pretty bad &#8211; is that normal?<br \/>0:46:17 &#8211; What would SMG development have done if battle rifles stayed in vogue?<br \/>0:47:11 &#8211; Mass-production SMGs not in 9mm? 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