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Telescopic sight

Plastic body
Ejection port

▲ RUGER MODEL 10/22 When fitted with an
Date 1980s integral suppressor, the SPECIAL FORCES WEAPONS
Rear sight 10/22 fires a lightweight
Origin US
bullet that is useful in Enlarged trigger guard
Weight 6 ⁄4lb (2.8kg) relatively close-range for gloved hands
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Barrel 18 ⁄2in (47cm) situations, where a full-
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power cartridge could
Caliber 0.22in ▶ GLOCK 17 Famous for its all-plastic
cause collateral damage.
Date 1982 frame, the Glock is a
leading modern-generation
Origin Austria
automatic pistol, fitted with
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Weight 1 ⁄4lb (0.6kg) a 17-round magazine housed
Barrel 4 ⁄4in (11.4cm) in the pistol grip.
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Caliber 9 × 19mm
Magazine

▲ STEYR SPP A cut-down version of
Three-phase fire Steyr’s TMP submachine-
selector (plus safety) Date 1993 gun, the SPP—or Special
Origin Austria
Grip Purpose Pistol—fires on
Weight 2 ⁄4lb (1.3kg) semiautomatic only, and
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Barrel 5in (13cm) can take either a 15-
or 30-round magazine
Caliber 9 × 19mm
Magazine housed in the pistol grip.
Advanced
collimator
Butt stock (red-dot) sight
(retracted)

▼ FN P90 A ground-breaking PDW,
Date 1990 the FN P90’s nonmechanical
body components are all
Origin Belgium moulded from plastic, Ambidextrous fire
Weight 6lb (2.68kg) and its unique horizontal selector Folding vertical
foregrip
Barrel 10¼in (26.3cm) ammunition feed allows the
magazine to be incorporated
Caliber 5.7 × 28mm
within the receiver.
▲ HECKLER & KOCH MP7
Date 2001
Origin Germany
Weight 4¼lb (1.9kg)
Barrel 7in (18cm)
Caliber 4.6 × 30mm
Similar in concept to the FN P90,
Injection- the MP7 is a PDW that fires one
moulded of the new-generation reduced
plastic butt caliber, high-velocity rounds,
stock houses in this case the 4.6 × 30mm
receiver, bolt, cartridge. The fully ambidextrous
and lock design accommodates both left-
and right-handed operators.