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Cyberpunk @lemmy.world Nakedmole @lemmy.world A Cyberpunk Looking SMG - Demro XF-7 Wasp (1970s)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14351273
Designed by Gerry Fox in the early 1970s, this carbine saw production sequentially as the Fox Carbine, the TAC-1, and the XF-7 Wasp, as it went through several different manufacturers. It is an open bolt, semiauto carbine sold in both 9mm Parabellum and .45 ACP – and you could get caliber conversion kits consisting of a bolt and barrel assembly to swap caliber on an existing gun. In 9mm they used Sten magazines, and in .45 then used M3 Grease Gun magazines.
The gun was marketed to law enforcement audiences as well as civilians, but never found any LEO success. A fully automatic version was also made, but similarly saw little popularity (because of the cost of NFA registration in the 1970s and 80s).
Mechanically, the gun is somewhat akin to the Soviet PPSh, which an upper cover th