Madsen 1950 Complete Specs and Full Gun Specifications

The Madsen M-50 or Madsen Model 1950 was blowback submachine gun designed and manufactured by Dansk Industri Syndikat of Copenhagen, Denmark. The rate of fire is 500-550 rounds per minute, which is generally considered to be very nearly the ideal rate for submachine guns used in full automatic fire, the gun was deliberately slowed down to this figure. While it is normally intended to be used at a range under I00 meters, it may be used still with good accuracy up to 200 meters. The frame consists of two almost identical pieces of pressed sheet steel, shaped with pistol grip and magazine housing. The two parts are hinged at the rear, and at the foreend assembled and locked by the barrel-bearing nut. The shoulder piece is a skeleton butt; the skeleton is of steel tubing, partly leather covered. The MADSEN sub-machine gun has simple blowback action. i. e . the relatively heavy weight of the breech block and the tension of the return spring hold the breech closed until breech pressure drops to safe limits after firing.