
CZ 247 submachine gun is fitted with slim and relatively short wooden stock with a semi-pistol grip.
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Mode of fire is selected by trigger pull, short and light trigger pull produces single shots, while a full-length trigger pull results in full automatic fire. The CZ 247 submachine gun is a simple blowback operated weapon, firing from an open bolt, in full automatic or semi-automatic mode. A prototype variant, firing 7,62×25 TT ammunition, was produced as CZ 347 but it was never made in numbers. Despite of that, it was briefly manufactured during late 1940s as CZ 247 and sold in noticeable quantities to certain African and South American countries. Designated at the factory as CZ 47/1 and CZ 47/2, it was submitted to Czechoslovak army tests but eventually rejected. CZ factory in Strakonice (Ceska Zbrojovka Strakonice) developed a variant of the pre-war Vz.38 submachine gun, chambered for 9×19 Luger ammunition, with minor alterations. Italy: Used in special operations as well as police units.Shortly after WW2 Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense (MNO) issued requirements for a new submachine gun, firing 9×19 Luger / Parabellum ammunition.In other countries (where legal), the removal of the stock in this and other versions was easier.

In the version of this carbine sold in Italy, the removal of the stock was made harder, requiring the use of tools, and proceeding to effectively shorten the weapon by this way could be prosecuted as a criminal offense.

The top-folding stock on the SITES "Ranger" subcarbine was, however, engineered to be easily removable for storage. The SITES "Ranger" sub-carbine, which was a distinctly Italian market gun, features the foregrip (which is removable), a longer barrel, and the top-folding stock is permanently locked into open position to comply with the requirements of the Italian laws about the minimum allowed length for civilian-legal long arms. The SITES "Falcon" (or "Spectre-HC") pistol may or may not be encountered with the original top-folding stock and foregrip (the samples sold in the United States as the "Spectre-HC" generally feature none of these the "Falcon" sold in Italy feature both, with the foregrip being removable). These weapons retain the main layout of the original "Spectre" submachine gun, are incapable of fully automatic fire, and the original magazine capacity is reduced for marketing in countries where the law requires it (such as Italy). The civilian-grade variants of the SITES "Spectre" M4 have namely been a semi-automatic pistol called the SITES "Falcon" (marketed in the United States as the "Spectre-HC") and a semi-automatic sub-carbine called the SITES "Ranger". Versions of the SITES "Spectre" M4 submachine gun specifically made for the civilian market have been around since the middle 1980s and up to the late 1990s, their production suffering a major backlash when the US Federal Assault Weapons Ban prohibited the import and sale of them on the American market, the biggest and most lucrative for this kind of item. Unconventional 50-round and 30-round capacity, four-column magazines are provided with the Spectre, but it can also use conventional two-column magazines. This allows the shooter to safely carry a round in the chamber and fire immediately as the double-action trigger eliminates the need for cocking prior to shooting. When the trigger is pulled in the double-action-like mode, the striker is retracted then dropped, firing the gun. When the decocker is activated the striker is dropped while a small flap that contacts the firing pin is retracted. The trigger group is double-action with a decocker. The Spectre is a striker-fired blowback firearm operating from a closed bolt. The Spectre is used by the Italian special forces, and has been exported elsewhere. The largely steel Spectre has a polymer overmolded grip, magazine release and safety/selector levers. The four models have top-folding buttstocks, and were available with or without a forward handgrip ahead of the magazine housing. The Spectre is a compact and light weapon, designed for instant firepower in close combat at short ranges. Production in Italy ceased in the year 1997, with the closure of SITES, but proceeded in very small numbers in Switzerland through Greco Sport S.A., a company founded by Gritti, until 2001. It was designed by Roberto Teppa and Claudio Gritti in the mid-1980s. The Spectre M4 is an Italian submachine gun that was produced by the SITES factory in Turin. Magazines for civilian-grade versions were factory-modified for 15-round, 10-round or 5-round capacity.ĭiagram of the Spectre M4 casket magazine. the "Spectre-HC") semi-automatic pistol (civilian) SITES "Ranger" semi-automatic carbine (civilian).ģ0-round box or 50-round casket magazines,

SITES (Società Italiana Tecnologie Speciali S.p.A., later GRECO SPORT, S.A.) The Spectre M4 equipped with a suppressor.
