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The Terrifying Three: Uzi, Ingram And Intratec Weapons Families

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Great book tells all on the Uzi, Ingram and Intratec family of weapons. The book needs a few more pictures to help with the understanding of the inner-workings of the pistols. Overall the book was worth the price, and I plan to read a few others by this author

For some reason the three guns - MAC-10, TEC-9, and Uzi have captured the attention of Hollywood, the news media, and the anti-gun crowd. You see them in movies, usually in the hands of the bad guys. They are inexpensive stamped sheetmetal guns, which with the exception of the Uzi have not found significant favor with any of the world's armed forces.

The important thing to remember is that these guns are available on the civilian market, but they are not fully automatic sub-machine guns. They have effectively the same functionality as standard semi-automatic pistols, but they look mean. And to be sure, most of them have large capacity magazines which seems to annoy lots of the anti-gun crowd.

If you really want a machine gun, different rules apply and you probably don't need this book.

I have not read books by Duncan Long before, but I was quite impressed with this one. He clearly knows how to write, and has an amazing amount of background information on the guns, the companies that manufactured them, the various choices in ammunition and so on. I shall look for other books by him.