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You need to ask yourself some questions to know what weapon will be right for you.
How hardcore am I and are my friends?
If you like little pistols and mini cheap automatics, travel no farther than your local department store.
There is no shame in not liking to get hit very hard, not having much money, or just simply preferring those kinds of weapons. Of course, if you like vulcan miniguns and use vehicles and have games that last a weekend straight including camping, that's another story.
What am I using my gun for?
If you like to do target practice in your room, that's fine, and there are some good instructables for targets. If you are playing with your friends, there are several roles you can play.
Leader/Auxiliary You will want something automatic (battery, rapid fire) that can lay down the plastic but also shoot accurately-ish. Any assault rifle looking gun should work.
Sniper/Designated Marks(wo)man Obviously, something accurate is in order, and a gun that looks like a sniper rifle should do the trick (airsoft guns tend to look like their real counterparts in terms of functionality).
Support Gunner get something that can lay down a wall of plastic quickly. A support gunner uses lots of ammo and something called 'Spray and Pray' tactics because you spray at your target like nuts and pray one or to will hit. Miniguns, a SAW style gun, or, in a pinch, anything with a decent rate of fire should work.
Remember, you can have more than one or none of these among your friends, as these are simply the basic roles requiring different guns.
How much dinero have I got to burn?
If you don't have much money lying around, you can still get a pretty decent weapon. (As long as you don't take up paintball!) My UMP was $110 and is very good. Decent weapons can be had for much less, however, so fear not. You won't be getting the same quality, guarantees, or functionality, but most who spend a lot on a new gun get only maybe 15% petter performance anyway. (If you are about to comment that your $1500 custom M4 is waaaay better than anyone else's and it's soooo worth it, maybe it is, but I dont want to hear it and neither do the newbies who just want to have fun with their friends without being intimidated.)
How many/ what capacity magazines do I want?
Magazines (or clips) are containers that hold your ammo and push it up into your gun. (Wal-Mart plastic-fantastic guns may not have these.) If you are a sniper, you are in no rush and will not use up much ammo, and will not need too much. (One or two low-capacity clips should suffice. Remember, bring extra BBs.) If you're a support gunner, your clips will be sizable but you will still want a few. For Leader/Auxiliary, you will want a few clips of high capacity (if you don't like reloading, like me.) Or you could lug around the extra plastic of many low capacity magazines.
What FPS range will I be playing at?
This is a big question. FPs is an acronym for
Feet
Per
Second.
There are many factors that would decide this question. First, how much do you want to wear? A sweatshirt should more than suffice for under 200FPS, but more than that and you may want to wear something extra. Also, don't worry too much about your sensitive areas. Almost always, the cloth/folds in your pants will do the trick. Some wear cups, but that is overkill since the projectiles have little momentum because they weigh in at around a fifth of a gram. Paintball is another story. For the ladies, a padded sports bra should suffice, but I lack the equipment to know this for certain, although I'm guessing that the projectile needs more weight to have enough momentum to hurt there more than any other part of the body. Feel free to correct me on this.
Also, at what range are you playing at? With an aresenal from a department store, 20 feet can be an accepted range, but with high FPS weapons, that same range should be a no-fire zone.
What do I want it to look like?
Personally i like neither of the common types of airsoft guns (AK family and M16/M16/AR-15 family), so I have Heckler & Koch MP5s and a UMP. Just a matter of personal choice.
Once you have pondered these questions for awhile, go to the next step.

The Type 100 submachine gun (一〇〇式機関短銃Hyaku-shiki kikan-tanjū) was a Japanese submachine gun used during World War II, and the only submachine gun produced by Japan in any quantity. It was made in two basic variants referred to by American and British observers as the Type 100/40 and the Type 100/44, the latter also known as the Type 100 (Simplified).^[2] A small number of the earlier version were converted into using folding stock, sometimes referred to by the Allies as the Type 100 Navy, which was made for parachutists.^[2]

Prototypes[edit]

Japan was surprisingly late to introduce the sub-machine gun to its armed forces — a few models of the SIG Bergmann 1920 (a licensed version of the German MP 18) and Solothurn S1-100 were purchased from Switzerland in the 1920s and 30s and were used in the invasion of Southern China.^[1]

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But Japanese development of submachine guns had stalled. After earlier prototypes designed and built by the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company, the Experimental Model 1 submachine gun and Experimental Model 2 submachine gun, proved inadequate, new requirements were formulated in August 1937 by the Army. The new simpler design was based on the European imported 'Bergmann Type' submachine guns, which had been used effectively in the Battle of Shanghai by Japanese marines. This led to the development of the Experimental Model 3 submachine gun in 1938. The earliest version was known as Model 3A, but after some changes, Model 3B was introduced in April 1939. It received generally positive results in testing and it was recommended to produce a batch of 200 weapons for military tests with infantry, cavalry, and reserve units. Further requirements were made for increased accuracy and a way to mount the standard Type 30 bayonet. A portion of the weapons for cavalry units were mounted with a bipod and a sight up to 1,500 meters to assess it capabilities in comparison with the bulky Type 11 light machine gun.

Early Version[edit]

In November 1939, Type 3C was released, which included a double-slot muzzle brake. After almost the full completion of the testing cycle of this version, it was adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army in the summer of 1940, as the Type 100 Submachine gun (known in western literature as the 'Type 100/40'). But no major order was made on the new weapon, the main interest of the army had turned to the new 7.7mm Type 99 light machine gun. There was no need for a 'submachine gun' in the Imperial Army tactics. Under a low-priority military contract, the Type 100 began to the deployed in August 1942, with numbers not exceeding 1,000 units, of which around 200 were converted to use a folding stock for use with army paratroopers.^[1][4][5] These were converted (along with similar designs for Arisaka rifles) after trouble with weapons being dropped in bags separately from the paratroopers, such as in the Battle of Palembang, and were intended to be stored in a bag attached to the stomach of the jumper. The paratrooper version was referred to by the allies as the 'Type 100 Navy'.

Limited numbers of the early Type 100 model were delivered to Solomon Islands in late 1942 for military trials. A small batch was delivered to Guadalcanal, but the rest of the shipments were sunk before reaching their target. A few very early models, without the muzzle brake, but with a bipod and a sight up to 1,500 meters (the 'cavalry variant' of the Model 3B), were captured by the British in the late stages of the Burma Campaign, brought in the Japanese reinforcements.^[4] Of the paratrooper variant, some were among the captured weapons after 1944 on Luzon after the Philippines Campaign.^[5]

Late Version[edit]

As the war continued, the demand for submachine guns was at an all-time high. In January 1944, under contract of the Army, larger scale production of the Type 100 started.^[6] In connection with the lower quality 'substitute standard' variants of other Japanese weapons to increase speed and reduce cost of manufacture, a number of changes were made to simplify the Type 100. This led to the later 1944 model of the Type 100, know in the west as the 'Type 100/44'. The 1944 variant was slightly longer, with simple iron sights and a greatly simplified muzzle brake consisting of two ports drilled in the barrel.^[1] The large bayonet mounting bar were eliminated, with the bayonet to be fitted to the barrel instead; consequently, the muzzle protruded more from its perforated jacket. Corners were cut in production, leaving many Type 100s with roughly finished stocks with roughly wielded metal.^[1] The resulting weapon was quite light, with low recoil, and demonstrated good reliability and satisfactory accuracy for close-range work. Some 7,500 were made produced in total.^[2]

The later version Type 100 was used by special units of the Imperial Army were encountered in the hands of raiding units in the Philippines Campaign and in the Battle of Okinawa, notably by the Giretsu Kuteitai. After the war, a limited number of the later version was supplied by the American administration to arm the Japanese police.^[6]

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References[edit]

1. ^~1000 early models (200 pre-production and 800 production models, of which 200 were converted into paratrooper models), ~7,500 late models

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1. ^ ^{abcdefghijklm}Bishop, Chris (2002). The Encyclopedia of Weapons of WWII: The Comprehensive Guide to Over 1,500 Weapons Systems, Including Tanks, Small Arms, Warplanes, Artillery, Ships, and Submarines. Sterling. p. 254. ISBN1-58663-762-2.
2. ^ ^abcdefMiller, David (2007). Fighting Men of World War II: Uniforms, Equipment and Weapons. Fighting Men of World War II. 1. Stackpole Books. p. 279. ISBN0-8117-0277-4.
3. ^WORLD WAR GUN STATS by Gary Astleford
4. ^ ^ab'Японские пистолеты-пулеметы.(продолжение)'. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
5. ^ ^ab'Японские пистолеты-пулеметы.(продолжение)'. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
6. ^ ^ab'Японские пистолеты-пулеметы.(продолжение)'. Retrieved 10 May 2019.

External links[edit]

• 8 mm Submachine Gun, Type 100 (1940), Catalog of Enemy Ordnance, 1945.

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