Thread:LunaRaven7/@comment-25160154-20131205100942/@comment-16609412-20131205201509

Your response tells me that you are either lying about being in the military, or that being in the military didn't teach you anything about weapon classification.

The reasoning you gave is entirely false, as of current definitions. (It says FORMERLY right in the same definition that YOU yourself gave.) With the development of new firearms systems, the classification between submachine gun and machine pistol has since been defined. With you saying that SMG is a "sub-category" of machine pistols, what you're basically saying is that all SMGs are also machine pistols, including the FN P90 or the Thompson Submachine Gun, which clearly, neither of them can be classified as "pistols" in any way.

Your example (The MP 40 being a machine pistol, because MP stands for "machinepistole") is also false, because "pistole" in German doesn't mean pistol, its just a term that loosely means "gun". The MP 40 in fact, is not a machine pistol, but it is a submachine gun.

You can debate this further, but I feel as if the facts should speak for themselves...