What is MAS-38?
[[File:MAS-38.jpg|thumb|292x292px|A MAS-38]] The '''MAS-38''' is a French 7.65 mm caliber [[submachine gun]]. It was designed in 1938 and manufactured the following year by Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Etienne (MAS). It was based on the previous MAS-35 model. It was used by the French army during [[World War II]]. German troops also used it as a substitute weapon when they captured the MAS factory, accepting it under the name MP722(f). It was later used in the [[First Indochina War|Indochina]] and [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]] Wars.. French police continued to use the MAS-38 after World War II, until it was replaced by the [[MAT-49]] in the 1950s. On April 28, 1945, a MAS-38 was used by [[Italian resistance movement|Italian partisans]] to kill to [[Benito Mussolini]]. This submachine gun uses 7.65x20mm Longue ammunition, it uses a removable 32-round magazine, its rate of fire of 600-700 rounds/minute. Its action was by blowback. [[Category:Submachine guns]]