MAS-38

The MAS-38 is a French submachine gun designed and built in the years just before the Second World War. MAS stands for Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne, which means "Weapons industry of Saint-Étienne". St. Etienne was the arms maker for the majority of France's weapons in the 19th-20th centuries. 
The MAS-38 is the culmination of several designs for an indigenous French submachine gun from all the way back in the mid-1920s. The French military cancelled the program to procure a new submachine gun, feeling that is had little use for a new service SMG. By the 1930s, the program was restarted and the MAS-38 began to be mass produced in 1939. However, budgetary concerns and the subsequent invasion of France by Germany in 1940 meant the first batches of the MAS-38 were not received by the French Army until late 1940. When the Germans conquered France in 1940, they did as Germany always did, adopt and use the indigenous weapons built by the conquered country for use by their own military or occupational forces, where it was designated the 7.65 mm MP722(f). Some guns were also supplied to Vichy France, and notably, a MAS-38 is widely credited as the weapon used to execute Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The submachine gun (chambered in the French 7.65mm) was in production between 1939-1946. It was actively used by French police forces until it was replaced by the MAT-49 submachine gun in 1950.
==Specifications==
(1939-1946)
* Type: Submachine Gun
* Caliber: 7.65x20mm Longue, 7.65x17mmSR Browning
* Weight: 
* Length: 
* Barrel length: 
* Capacity: 32 rounds
* Fire Modes: Semi-Auto/Auto
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===Film===
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) 	 	Private motorcycle policemen 	 	1953
The Gambler (Bob le flambeur) 	 	Police detectives 	 	1956
The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor) 	Jaroslav Mareš 	Václav Malý 	 	1958
The Black Battalion (Cerný prapor) 	Hannjo Hasse 	Wolf 	 	1958
Bells Without Joy (Carillons sans joie) 	 	French soldiers 	 	1962
Any Number Can Win 	Jean Gabin 	Charles 	 	1963
Any Number Can Win 	Alain Delon 	Francis Verlot 	 	1963
Pierrot Goes Wild (Pierrot le Fou) 	Jimmy Karoubi 	The miget 	 	1965
Pierrot Goes Wild (Pierrot le Fou) 	 	OAS members 	 	1965
The Sucker (Le corniaud) 	 	French police 	 	1965
The Majordomo (Le majordome) 	 	Criminals 	 	1965
The Second Wind (Le Deuxième Souffle) 	 	Motorcycle guards 	 	1966
Action Man (Le soleil des voyous) 	 	French police 	 	1967
Pasha (Le Pacha) 	 	Quinquin's henchman 	 	1968
The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir) 	 	Policemen 	 	1968
The Sicilian Clan (Le clan des Siciliens) 	 	Soldiers at the airport 	 	1969
How I Unleashed World War II 	Jan Swiderski 	Capt. Letoux 	 	1970
The Cop (Un condé) 	 	 	Seen on police shooting range	1970
Black Sun (Chyornoye solntse) 	 	Moussombe's bodyguard 	 	1970
Take It Easy It's a Waltz (Laisse aller ... c'est une Valse)	 	The policeman 	 	1971
She No Longer Talks She Shoots 	Annie Girardot 	French police 	 	1972
The Last Four Days 	 	A female Blackshirt 	 	1974
Cop Story (Flic Story) 	 	Police officers and gendarmes	 	1975
The Old Gun (Le vieux fusil) 	 	Vichy militia 	 	1975
The Gang (Le Gang) 	Alain Delon 	Robert 	 	1977
The Gang (Le Gang) 	 	Police officers and gendarmes	 	1977
Armageddon (Armaguedon) 	 	French police 	 	1977
Chained Heat 2 	Brigitte Nielsen 	Magda Kassar 	 	1993
White Soldier 	Abraham Belaga 	Sergeant Robert Tual 	 	2014
White Soldier 	 	French troops and commandos 	 	2014
To the Ends of the World (Les confins du monde) 	Jonathan Couzinié	Lt. Maussier 	 	2018
===Video Game===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Mods	Notation 	Release Date
World War II Online: Battleground Europe	 	 	 	2001
Forgotten Hope 	 	 	 	2003
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One 	"MAS 38 SMG" 	 	 	2005
Forgotten Hope 2 	"PM MAS Mle 38" 	 	Added in v2.6 (2022) 	2007
Forgotten Hope 2 	"Maschinenpistole 722(f)"	 	Added in v2.6 (2022) 	2007
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly 	MAS-38 	 	 	2014
Call of Duty: WWII 	M-38 	 	added in an update "Operation: Shamrock & Awe" in 2018	2017
Squad 44: Letters From The Front 	 	 	 	2018
Enlisted 	 	 	 	2021
Military Conflict: Vietnam 	 	 	 	2022
===Anime===
Title 	Character 	Note 	Date
Lupin Zero	A Viet Minh soldier	Ep. "Young Lupin Calls Himself "the Third"	2022 - 2023
Category:Gun
Category:Submachine Gun