I honestly can't think of a firearm LESS useless than a machine pistol.
UPDATE! Just remembered black powder weapons.More useful than knives or spears,but barely. Don't own any,and don't intend on ever owning any.
I can also honestly say that if someone is shooting at me,I hope they are using a machine pistol because they will almost certainly miss me and then run out of ammo,giving me the time I need to get my revolver out and blow their asses away.
I can also honestly say the ONLY white people I have ever known who have owned machine pistols owned the Mauser machine pistols that were produced all over the world from the late 1800's (1898,IIRC) until the time the allies bombed all the Nazi weapons plants into flaming dust in the 1940's.
For some reason I will never understand,it seemed like the SS ground troops REALLY loved these things. I guess they might have been kinda useful for executing prisoners who were lined up,but even then they would waste a lot of ammo. Which come to think of it,was a GOOD thing if it was the Nazi's wasting ammo.
Hell,even I had one at one time back in the 60's. The one I had was made in China under license to Mauser and was,IIRC,7.62 caliber instead of the usual 9mm. I don't think I even shot it once. Bought it because it was cheap and a curiosity,and sold it cheap when I lost interest in it.
Not much interest in them back then,especially not in any that weren't manufactured in Germany,and I bought it cheap and sold it cheap. Damn thing may still be floating around somewhere in Asia,but I suspect it was melted down for scrap long ago.
BTW,IIRC,these things were commonly called "Broomhandle Mausers".
BTW,I don't care much for full-auto rifles,either. They waste too much ammo,and if you are an infantryman running long-range patrols,you have to carry all your ammo with you. This tends to discourage full-auto fire if you can avoid it.
BIG fan of full-auto 30 and 50 caliber and larger machine guns,though. Then again,we never had to carry them on recon teams,and on the Hatchet Force teams,full-auto 30 calibers were VERY nice things to have when surrounded by heathens intent on killing you all. 30 caliber MG's tended to temper their enthusiasm about charging up the hill to kill you.
