Thread:LunaRaven7/@comment-25160154-20131205100942/@comment-26281589-20131205112719

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As I'm in the military,a nd I have experience on this, I'm going to make this clear:

Fully automatic pistols designed to be fired one-handed are known as machine pistols, a term which also formerly included many submachine guns (such as the MP-40, in which MP stands for, machine pistol in German).

So basically SMGs are machine pistols. It's just a sub-category.

It stays SMG, period.