MCEM 2 submachine gun

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The MCEM-2 was a prototype submachine gun, which never saw widespread production, but was one of the first submachine guns to combine a wrap-around bolt and the magazine in pistol grip, features later copied in the Czechoslovak Sa vz. 23 and Israeli Uzi. The MCEM-2 was the second prototype in a line of experimental submachine guns designed in Britain in 1944. It was envisaged as a possible replacement for the STEN submachine gun then in service.