Japan was perhaps the least prepared of all the powers during the Second World War to have an issued submachine gun in use by combat troops. Indeed the Japanese Type 100 only saw a production run of at maximum 30,000 weapons. A small fraction of the total amount of the Japanese Imperial Forces throughout the entire war.

While still under the effect of the strong wake created by the flood of new, eye-catching  SHOT 2018 products, this old scribe was somehow motivated to once again write on older, lesser-known stuff. The chosen subject was the INA submachine gun. Very well known in Brazil due to decades of use by the local armed and police forces, it is still generally unknown worldwide. Or so I think.

At the tail end of SHOT Show, TFB writers Miles and Nathaniel received a very unique and rare opportunity to get hands-on with the Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów (ZMT) UKM 2000 in the United States while at the popular Vegas shooting range, Battlefield Las Vegas. Although the general purpose machine gun itself isn’t rare, currently being fielded by the Polish Armed Forces, this particular specimen is the only known version actually imported into the United States. Readers in the Las Vegas area can even rent it, in addition to a standard PKM.