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Bergmann MP 18: The Gun That Created a Weapon Class

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:02.645Z

Spent some time going down a rabbit hole on early automatic weapons history this week. The MP 18 is one of those guns that doesn't get enough range conversation — everyone talks about what came after it, nobody talks about the thing that made all of it possible. The MP 18's basic design formed the basis of most submachine guns manufactured between 1920 and 1960 — four decades of weapons development tracing a direct line back to one German engineer's workbench. Four decades. That's not a foo...

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Bergmann MP 18: The Gun That Created a Weapon Class

Before the Bergmann MP 18 existed, there was no such thing as a submachine gun. The concept itself -- a shoulder-fired, fully automatic weapon chambered for pistol ammunition -- had to be invented from scratch, driven by the specific and brutal deman

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