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		<title>Beretta MOD.34 Automatic Pistol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beretta Mod.34 Automatic Pistol was derived from earlier models like the Mod.15,19 and 23. The Mod.34 was safe and had sufficient stopping power. It had a semiautomatic system, and used 9mm rounds or 38 APC.]]></description>
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		<title>Carcano MOD.91 and 91/38</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the standard Italian rifle in both world wars. It was one of the first rifles to have such a small caliber. It was a bolt-action rifle, with fixed center loader, with 6 rounds in a clip.]]></description>
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		<title>Breda 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was an automatic weapon and used a direct recoil system, so that bolt and barrel recoiled in different spaces. The cooler system was by air, but after some hundreds of rounds the barrel had to be changed. This weapon was produced from 1930-1937.]]></description>
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		<title>Mitragliatrice Fiat MOD.14/35</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weapon was designed after the Mod.14, but cooler system and caliber were different. It had a semiautomatic or automatic firing triggers. The barrel could have been changed after some thousands of rounds.]]></description>
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		<title>M.A.B. Moschetto Automatico Beretta MOD. 38A</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Small Arms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Moschetto became more widespread in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Salò, partisans and Italian units fighting under Allied command. Its later version, called MAB 38/42 was lighter, shorter and had a higher rate of fire.]]></description>
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		<title>Mitragliatrice Breda MOD.37</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the standard “heavy” machine gun used from 1937 to 1945. The Mod. 37 used 8mm rounds and had a magazine of 20 rounds. ]]></description>
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		<title>TZ-45 Sub-Machine Gun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In comparison with the FNAB-43, the TZ-45 is much more the sort of weapon one would expect in that place and at that time. It was cheaply made from metal stampings, welded together in parts, and the finish is rudimentary.]]></description>
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		<title>FNAB 43 Sub-Machine Gun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little known weapon was designed and developed in Italy during the war and manufactured during 1943-44. It is believed that no more than 7,000 were built and all were issued to the German and Italian units fighting in Northern Italy.]]></description>
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		<title>OVP Sub-Machine Gun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unusual feature of the OVP that was not on the original VP gun was the use of a cylindrical sleeve surrounding the receiver for cocking the weapon. This was grasped and pulled to the rear to retract the bolt and then pushed forward during firing.]]></description>
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		<title>Beretta Model 1918 Sub-Machine Gun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jim h</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Model 1918 was issued to the Ardite regiments of the Italian Army early in 1918 and thus became the first sub machine gun to be standard issue, predating the German Bergmann by a few weeks.]]></description>
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