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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 791478" data-attributes="member: 1132"><p>To me a machine gun is a fully automatic firearm firing a rifle cartridge or larger. They are divided into light, general prupose and heavy. A sub-machine gun can be either fully automatic or select fire, and fires a sub-rifle cartridge, examples of which are 9mm, .45ACP, 7.62X25 Tokarev, etc. A Thompson would be correctly be categorized as a sub-machine gun.</p><p></p><p>An assault rifle would be a select fire rifle or carbine firing an intermediate cartridge. Examples would be the original German Sturmgewehr StG 44, M2 Carbine, M-16, AK-47, etc. An assault rifle by definition cannot be semi-automatic only. </p><p></p><p>Some people would argue that the M2 should be categorized as a sub-machine gun, but the cartridge was developed for the M1 carbine and not a pistol, even though it's only nominally more powerful than the 7.62X25 Tokarev when fired out of a PPSh-41 subgun. That cartridge was developed for a pistol and adapted to a long gun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 791478, member: 1132"] To me a machine gun is a fully automatic firearm firing a rifle cartridge or larger. They are divided into light, general prupose and heavy. A sub-machine gun can be either fully automatic or select fire, and fires a sub-rifle cartridge, examples of which are 9mm, .45ACP, 7.62X25 Tokarev, etc. A Thompson would be correctly be categorized as a sub-machine gun. An assault rifle would be a select fire rifle or carbine firing an intermediate cartridge. Examples would be the original German Sturmgewehr StG 44, M2 Carbine, M-16, AK-47, etc. An assault rifle by definition cannot be semi-automatic only. Some people would argue that the M2 should be categorized as a sub-machine gun, but the cartridge was developed for the M1 carbine and not a pistol, even though it's only nominally more powerful than the 7.62X25 Tokarev when fired out of a PPSh-41 subgun. That cartridge was developed for a pistol and adapted to a long gun. [/QUOTE]
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