Turning the bolt handle 90 degrees locks the bolt in place for safety. The charging handle is accessed from the top of the weapon and reciprocates with the bolt. Its operation mimics that of the M1 Garand. The safety is a sliding switch located in front of the trigger within the trigger guard. The M-10 is as simple as a submachine gun might be. While thousands of the compact little weapons were sold to American civilian enthusiasts, the M-10 ultimately died a natural death. As the sound suppressor was an integral part of the appeal of the little gun, the inability to sell the guns as a suppressed package greatly limited its marketability. One of the reasons the M-10 failed to secure extensive contracts overseas was an absurd administrative prohibition on exporting sound suppressors to foreign nations. While MAC-10 has become a common moniker for the gun, the Military Armament Corporation never used this term in its marketing efforts. They were briefly considered as primary armament by the SAS on the Iranian Embassy raid at Princes Gate in London in 1980 only to lose out to the HK MP5. US Navy SEALs and Special Forces, as well as the British Special Air Service, used the M-10 operationally in limited numbers. Despite aggressively marketing the Ingram guns as a replacement for the 1911 pistol in general military service, the MAC weapons failed to secure any significant military contracts.
380ACP and sporting an even faster rate of fire. Two years later Ingram introduced the M-11, a scaled-down version of the M-10 chambered for. The M-10 saw initial production in 1970, and unconventional warfare operatives used a very small number in Vietnam. This made the gun much more controllable. The M-10 was designed from the outset to operate with a detachable muzzle suppressor. Two years later it became the standard issue submachine gun for the Israeli Defense Forces. Christened the Uzi after its designer, this rugged combat weapon first saw use by Israeli Special Forces in 1954. A gifted designer, Gal began work on a new submachine gun and completed his first prototype in 1950. He was released in 1946, two years before Israel declared her independence. Uziel Gal was a German-born Israeli who served half of a six-year sentence after having been arrested for carrying a gun illegally in the British Mandate of Palestine. Amidst this sordid milieu, it became obvious that Israel required a domestic source of arms if it hoped to prevail. In many cases, German weapons that had recently been used in an attempt to obliterate the Jewish people were taken up and turned against Israel’s enemies. Cut off from outside support, the nation of Israel relied upon surplus arms smuggled in from European battlefields to sustain it in its fight against its belligerent Arab neighbors. Those first few years represented a literal fight for survival.