Quote Originally Posted by Mike_G View Post
Which are crap at 100 yards as well. And the early SMGs, like the Thompson weigh as much as the Garand anyway. Even before you figure ammo weight for an automatic weapon.

SMGs are useful in the assault and in close quarters and total crap at everything else.
Not particularly disagreeing with you, but that still means a lot of SMGs got issued to anybody other than infantry for being better than a pistol but lighter and cheaper than a rifle, as well as having low overheads in training and maintenance.

Not Thompsons certainly, because they are big, heavy and expensive; but Sterlings, M3 Grease Guns, PPSh, Stens and the like