Around 1914, the Germans got their hands on the machine gun plans. They first designed the machine gun after they faced one in a German war. The Germans gave two machine guns per battalion group in their military.(Duffy, 2009) Although they didn’t start doing this until around 1915, when the british started doing the same.

The Thompson Submachine Gun or Tommy gun(see appendix L), was invented by General John T. Thompson. This was the first hand held machine gun ever. Thompson wanted to create the Tommy Gun to try and end the First World War. But the first shipment landed in Europe the day after the war on November 11, 1918.(Bellis, 2015)

In 1930 the Italian army made the Breda Modello 30.(see appendix M) British armies created the Bresal Light Machine Gun(see appendix N) in 1940. The ALFA 44(see appendix O) was created in 1944 by the Spanish military. The AAT-52(see appendix P) (Arme Automatique Transformable) was introduced to military in 1952 by the French army. In 1979 the Italian military made the Beretta AS70 LMG assault rifle.(see appendix Q) Then the American military made the Ares Defence Strike 5.56(see appendix R) “Advanced Weapons System” in 2002. Then in 2012 the American military made the Ares Defence Ares-16 Small Arms Family.(see appendix S) (Staff, 2015)

Since gunpowder has been invented by the Chinese, the whole world has altered it, improved it, and used it for good and bad. They have been used not only for guns but for many other items. Like for fireworks, they use gunpowder as well. Bombs of course use gunpowder for their base of explosion. There are many other iem that use gunpowder but those are just a couple. If only there were more responsible people in the world that wouldn’t use it against us.