Editing Submachine gun (section)

== Name ==
There are some inconsistencies in the classification of submachine guns.<ref name="Century 2000. pages 93-94">Military Small Arms of the 20th Century. 7th Edition. by Ian V. Hogg & John S. Weeks. Krause Publications. 2000. pages 93–94.</ref> British Commonwealth sources often refer to SMGs as "machine carbines".<ref name="Century 2000. pages 93-94" /><ref>Sten Machine Carbine, by Peter Laidler & R Blake Stevens, Collector Grade Publications, Canada; 1ST edition (December 2000)</ref> Other sources refer to SMGs as "machine pistols" because they fire pistol-caliber ammunition, for example, the [[MP 40|MP-40]] and [[Heckler & Koch MP5|MP5]], where "MP" stands for ''Maschinenpistole'' ("submachine gun" in German, but [[cognate]] with the English term "machine pistol").<ref>Military Small Arms of the 20th Century. 7th Edition. by Ian V. Hogg & John S. Weeks. Krause Publications. 2000. pages 93–94 & 116–125.</ref> However, the term "[[machine pistol]]" is also used to describe a [[pistol|handgun]]-style [[firearm]] capable of [[automatic firearm|fully automatic]] or [[burst fire]],<ref>James Smyth Wallace. ''Chemical Analysis of Firearms, Ammunition, and Gunshot Residue''. CRC Press. 2008. p. xxiii</ref> such as the [[Stechkin automatic pistol|Stechkin]], [[Beretta 93R]], [[Glock 18]], and the [[Heckler & Koch VP70|H&K VP70]]. Furthermore, [[personal defense weapon]]s such as the [[FN P90]] and [[H&K MP7]] are often called submachine guns.<ref name="Century 2000. pages 93-94" />