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“The MP18 was the only submachine gun you’re going to see fielded in any appreciable numbers in World War I, even so, we’re talking about maybe 10,000 by war’s end,” he says.

The Germans invented the Bergman MP18, with a 32-round snail drum, in 1918. But the Thompson submachine gun followed shortly after. Retired Army Ordnance officer Brig. Gen. John Taliaferro ...