submachine gun developed by William Andrews in the United States in 1918: the unnamed submachine gun described in the video below has fallen into obscurity. Fed from a drum of ten 7-round single-stack pistol magazines, the .45 caliber weapon is evidently partly inspired by a 1911 handgun. While it’s unknown if the 70-round drum is automatically rotated after every 7-round magazine is depleted, the weapon does appear to have a mechanism located near the drum mount, which could be an automatic actuation device.
It’s evident that the designer probably thought of the weapon less like a submachine gun as we know it today, and more of a fully automatic pistol – what we might now call a “machine pistol”. The gun lacks sights, a shoulder stock or any sort of foregrip; whether this was due to it being a demonstrator or whether it was really intended to be used as “trench-sweeper” used without sights or stock from the hip is unknown. With an early design like this, anything is possible!
from the friearmsblog
THIS WOULD BE VERY FUN THOUGH MAYBE NO SO PRACTICAL
