Edited sentence: ", may seem bizarre, but are true.A delight to fire and with little recoil the "SMG", as it was termed in day-to-day use, was hopelessly inaccurate at anything over 100m: by which point its 9mm pistol round had little stopping power in any event.As a film industry footnote, the SMG with its butt in the folded position was the weapon carried by the Imperial Stormtroopers in the original "Star Wars" movie.Failure to do so would mean that the compressed spring would shoot out of the end of the receiver, leaving the unfortunate user watching their recoil spring arc away into the distance like a mortar round.However, users had to be careful, when having reinserted the recoil spring, they reattached the screw cap at the end of the receiver properly.It was issued mainly to vehicle borne troops (Signallers and tank crew etc), for use as their personal weapon instead of the longer 7.62mm Self Loading Rifle ("SLR").Reports of soldiers on exercise with the SMG having to shout "Bang, bang.The weapon was simple to strip and clean and could be easily maintained in the field.Users of the weapon on exercise found themselves at a disadvantage as no 9mm blank rounds were issued by the British Army, and no Blank Firing Attachment ("BFA") was issued with the SMG.When fired on the firing range the weapon was only ever fired in single round mode, and during basic training soldiers were not taught to the fire the weapon on full automatic