Nice photo Tom,
I'm getting the sense these days that people are really getting away from 9mm Sub Guns
I know the MP5 is still used but I think that gun was really popular in the 80s and 90s. Now I see many swat teams and seals and those kind of high speed teams using m4s.
I know the FBI tried the 10 mm Mp5. But I think alot of people don't want a "longer" gun spitting out pistol rounds.
I talked to this one guy I met about a month ago who was working as a contractor in Iraq. He said some guys would show up with MP5s and they were told to find something that shoots a rifle round quick.
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Originally Posted by tom turner  .45ACP . . . a great round out of a handgun . . . and devastating coming out of that longer barrel.
Today the big, fat .45ACP is obsolete as a sub round . . . and many are going to the 9mm in the super-hot NATO loading for subguns. They are small in diameter and lots can be loaded into big clips.
Still . . . there's something nostalgic about a tommy gun and a 50 round drum!
Here's my father-in-law, in WWII. His job was the tommy gunner on the bridge. His job was to both guard the bridge in port . . . plus use his tommy gun when the fighting got real close to an enemy boat that they might capture or have to get close to . . . closer than the deck guns to shoot at. The Germans were full of tricks. 
He got a Purple Heart in one battle from shrapnel while on post, and ended up using his Thompson, with deadly effect, on enemy sailors in battle . . . when they WERE up close and personal.
Tom |