The American-180 is a submachine gun designed by Richard J. Casull in the 1960s, evolved from his earlier Casull Model 290, that fires .22 Long Rifle or .22 ILARCO rimfire ammunition from a large pan magazine. Manufactured from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s by companies including Voere, Illinois Arms Company and American Arms International, roughly ten thousand were built in total. It has mainly been used by American law enforcement and correctional facilities, along with military and special forces units in Croatia, France, New Zealand, Rhodesia and South Africa.
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The American-180 is a submachine gun developed in the 1960s which fires the .22 Long Rifle or .22 ILARCO cartridges from a pan magazine.
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The American-180 is a submachine gun developed in the 1960s
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The American-180 is a submachine gun developed in the 1960s which fires the .22 Long Rifle or
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Submachine gun Semi-automatic rifle (SAR 180/275)
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early 1970s to mid-1980s
Used In: Yugoslav Wars, Users section
Croatia: MGV-176 Slovenian-made copy, used by Croatian Guerilla forces during the Yugoslav wars
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