The Smith & Wesson M76 submachine gun (SMG) was produced by Smith & Wesson from 1967 to 1974.
26-606: M76 or M-76 may refer to: M-76 (Michigan highway) , a former state highway in Michigan Smith & Wesson M76 , a variant of the Carl Gustav M/45 submachine gun Valmet M76 , a Finnish gas operated assault rifle Zastava M76 , a semi-automatic Yugoslav sniper rifle Messier 76 , a planetary nebula in the constellation Perseus M76 Otter , an amphibious cargo carrier Tikka M55 or originally Tikka M76,
52-434: A flophouse , Devlin finds Weenie in an upstairs room. He beats him up and tells him to inform Mary Ann that he is in town to collect the debt. The next day, Devlin and his men drive to the prairie and find Mary Ann in a barn, where he is entertaining guests at a white slave ( prostitute ) auction. Devlin demands the money from Mary Ann, who tells him to come to the county fair the next day to get it and states that Chicago
78-557: A mob enforcer from the Chicago Irish Mob sent to Kansas to collect a debt from a meatpacker boss played by Gene Hackman . The picture co-stars Sissy Spacek in her first credited on-screen role as a young orphan being sold into prostitution as well as Angel Tompkins and Eddie Egan . The film was considered highly risqué for its time based on its violence and the hint of a homosexual relationship between two brothers. Its graphic depiction of female slavery includes
104-641: A 9mm submachine gun. The US Navy had the need for a submachine gun for their SEAL special operations team in Vietnam. The SEALs' weapon of choice was the Swedish Carl Gustaf m/45 ―a well-made and reliable submachine gun. Because Sweden was a neutral country, a problem arose; they objected to their product being used in a war zone. Therefore, the supply of the Carl Gustaf m/45 to the US Navy
130-503: A Finnish rifle [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M76&oldid=975066559 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
156-523: A Swedish K before starting design work on the M76...". The M76 fires 9mm rounds; the Carl Gustaf m/45 has an open bolt design and also fires 9×19mm Parabellum ammunition. The SEALs also requested a limited number of suppressors for the M76. These suppressors were to be used under certain situations to reduce the gun's sound, and hide the flash so there would be no point of reference for return fire. Being an open bolt system, some sound would always be emitted, but
182-526: A human cadaver is processed among the cattle. A woman operating the sausage machine is interrupted by "Weenie", who has timed the machine using his watch. He wraps up a string of sausages, then marks the package with an address in Chicago. Weenie is the brother of "Mary Ann", the crooked operator of the slaughterhouse in Kansas City, Kansas . The particular sausages that Weenie was wrapping were made from
208-423: A scene depicting naked young women (including Sissy Spacek and Janit Baldwin ) in pens being auctioned like cattle . It is also noted for its depiction of the beef slaughtering process and for a chase scene involving a combine harvester in an open field. A slaughterhouse process follows the unloading of cattle to the making of sausages . A wristwatch and a shoe appear on a conveyor line, making it clear that
234-418: A shooting range. Devlin and Poppy run into a nearby wheat field, where they escape detection. When they try to leave the field, they are chased by a combine harvester operator until Devlin's men arrive in their car, which they ram into the front of the combine, and shoot the operator. With the car demolished, the group hitches a ride back into Kansas City on a truck. Devlin jumps off near the river and sends
260-461: Is "an old sow, begging for cream" that should be melted down. As they are standing by a cattle pen with naked young women offered for auction, one of them, Poppy, begs Devlin for help. Devlin takes her with him "on account." Back at the hotel, she tells Devlin her history of growing up at an orphanage in Missouri with her close friend, Violet, before they were brought to the slave auction. At
286-525: Is a man, not an animal, he won't do that. He walks away, leaving Mary Ann to die on his back. In the final scene, Devlin and Poppy go back to the Missouri orphanage and demand the release of the rest of the girls. When the matron resists, Poppy knocks her out, to the approval of Devlin. As they walk away, Devlin tells her they're going back to Chicago, and when Poppy asks what it's like, he replies it's "as peaceful as anyplace anywhere". Roger Ebert gave
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#1732787003864312-572: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Smith %26 Wesson M76 The history of the Model 76 submachine gun started in April 1966 with a call from Smith & Wesson's Washington, D.C. sales representative; he had been contacted by the US Navy Department to see if Smith & Wesson would be interested in designing, and producing
338-643: Is slightly larger than that of an original S&W M76, requiring two sleeves that act as bearing surfaces to be placed on the bolt to take up the extra space inside the receiver. During 2001 the Tactical Weapons Company of Arizona was engaged to manufacture the parts and receivers for a weapon that would be marketed as the Omega 760 carbine, a semiautomatic-only copy of the Smith & Wesson Model 76 that accepted Sten gun magazines. Initial sales of
364-541: The Missouri River . Devlin agrees to the fee of $ 50,000 and asks for some additional muscle. He gets a driver and three other younger members of the Irish Mob as help, including the young O'Brien, who makes Devlin meet his mother as he leaves Chicago. It is later revealed that Devlin and Mary Ann have a shared history involving Mary Ann's wife Clarabelle, who previously had an affair with Devlin. In Kansas City at
390-502: The M76 in 1974. Despite the gun's lack of market demand, it gained some measure of popularity in action movies of the 1970s and 1980s, including Prime Cut , The Omega Man , The Taking of Pelham One Two Three , and more recently in The Dark Knight . In 1983, Mike Ruplinger and Kenneth Dominick started a company called MK Arms and acquired the rights to the Smith & Wesson M76. They began producing copies of it with
416-597: The M76 under the trade name Global Arms with a designation of M76A1. The SW 76 was manufactured by JMB Distribution in Ohio from virgin tubes that were originally registered by John Stemple in 1986. All of the parts of the SW 76 will interchange with an original Smith & Wesson M76 except for the bolt. The bolt is not interchangeable due to the reorientation of the extractor and the Stemple receiver tubes have an inside diameter that
442-445: The Omega 760 were brisk but quickly dropped off. The disappointing sales of the Omega ultimately drove the decision to cease production and the decision left a number of parts that were never assembled into guns. Prime Cut Prime Cut is a 1972 American action thriller crime film produced by Joe Wizan , directed by Michael Ritchie from a screenplay written by Robert Dillon, and starring Lee Marvin , who portrays
468-424: The barn where Mary Ann and his brother are holding Poppy. He hits Mary Ann, who falls down into a pig pen. Enraged at seeing his brother shot, Weenie runs toward Devlin, who kills him; Weenie tries to stab Devlin with a sausage until he dies. As Devlin and Poppy leave the barn, they pass the mortally wounded Mary Ann. Mary Ann taunts Devlin to finish him off, like he would an animal. Devlin tells him that since Mary Ann
494-417: The county fair, in the midst of a livestock judging competition, Mary Ann gives Devlin a box that supposedly contains the money. When Devlin cracks the box open, he finds it contains only beef hearts. Devlin is able to escape with Poppy after Violet distracts Weenie, who claimed her after the auction. Mary Ann's men chase Devlin, his men and Poppy through the fair. O'Brien is killed underneath a viewing stand for
520-712: The designation MK Arms MK760, and the US Navy, which still had some original M76s in its inventory, began purchasing replacement parts from MK Arms. MK Arms also produced carbine, and pistol configurations of the MK760. In 1986, due to the Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act , which banned any newly manufactured automatic weapons from being registered for civilian ownership, MK Arms went out of business. In 1984, Dominick separated from Ruplinger and began producing his own copy of
546-416: The farm through a sunflower field and engage in a gun battle with Mary Ann's men. Both of Devlin's men are hit, and he tells them to stay behind while he advances with a submachine gun . Unable to get past Mary Ann's men, he commandeers a truck hauling livestock and uses it to ram the gate and smash into the greenhouse on the farm, demolishing it. Devlin kills several of Mary Ann's men, then advances into
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#1732787003864572-478: The houseboat adrift on the river, with an angry Clarabelle aboard. When he returns to the hotel, Devlin finds an ambulance taking one of his men away. He learns that Mary Ann's men ambushed them and took Poppy. When he returns to Weenie's hotel to look for him, he finds that Violet has been gang-raped , apparently as a warning of what will happen to Poppy. Devlin and his two remaining men drive out to Mary Ann's farm to finally take care of business. They approach
598-511: The muzzle flash could be eliminated. Due to the ongoing war, and a critical need to fill, Smith & Wesson designated the M76 a top priority project. The total time to take the concept of the M76 from the drawing board to production was just nine months. Many people comment that the gun is ugly or rough. Due to the urgency at the time, the M76 skipped the finishing department where welds and rough edges would normally be smoothed. Due to lack of market demand, Smith & Wesson ceased production of
624-539: The remains of an enforcer from the Chicago Irish Mob sent to Kansas City to collect $ 500,000 from Mary Ann. After the head of the Irish Mob in Chicago receives the package, he contacts Nick Devlin, a WWII veteran and enforcer with whom he has worked previously, to go to Kansas City to collect the debt. He tells Devlin about the sausages and that another enforcer sent to Kansas City was found floating in
650-455: The rest of them with Poppy back into town. He enters a houseboat , the luxurious accommodation of Clarabelle, purchased for her by Mary Ann; she is there alone. He gets information on the whereabouts of Mary Ann while surmising that she was the one pushing Mary Ann to cut out Chicago. Clarabelle attempts to seduce him, but he rebuffs her. Clarabelle tells him she would be perfectly happy being a widow and joining Devlin again. He responds by setting
676-569: Was cut off, which meant they had to find another submachine gun to take its place. Although they appear similar, the M76 was designed from scratch from a list of requirements, which the US Navy SEALs provided, they are: It was from this list that the M76 was created. According to the Director of Research and Development and head of the Model 76 project at the time, Dwayne W. Charron, was quoted as saying, "[He] had never seen, held or fired
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