1964
@1915
Michel Chan
1919, after WWI.
1964
A sub-machine gun fires pistol cartridges. A machine gun fires rifle rounds.
Yes. A sub machine gun is a machine gun that fires pistol rounds and Uzis are 9mm.
The .45 Thompson sub-machine gun and M3 sub machine gun (grease gun) were used in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam War. A sub-machine gun is called a SUB machine gun because it uses "pistol" ammunition. The M3 sub-machinegun looked exactly like a grease gun; hence the name.
Sub machine gun
more than likely in the 1970's
Gen. William Thompson. in 1919. The Thompson SMG became known as the Tommy Gun. Before that, it was the German Bergmann MP-18, invented in 1918
SMG
No