The Mini Uzi is scaled down version of the Uzi, an Israeli-made open-bolt, blowback-operated submachine gun, a 9mm rapid-fire killer. It was the Mid-Range Weapon of the Medellin Cartel. It was also used in various police and paramilitary forces such as the SWAT, IRA, CIA, FBI use them frequently.
Description[]
- Weight: 7.72 lbs
- Length: 23.62 inches
- Barrel Length: 7.76 inches
- Cartridge: 9x19mm Parabellum
- Action: Blowback
- Rate of Fire: 980 rounds/min
- Muzzle Velocity: 1,250 fps
- Effective Range: 328 feet
- Maximum Range: 656 feet
- Feed System: 10, 16, 20, 32, 40 or 50-round box magazines
The Uzi uses a collapsible buttstock for recoil reduction and more precise aiming; although not all uzis have the stock.
The magazine is inserted inside the pistol grip. The design of the magazine was simplified to allow soldiers to easily reload the gun even at night or in smoke: since they only needed to feel the location of the magazine grip (which they are probably already gripping).
Uzis come in various sizes. From longest to smallest, the most common sizes are; Carbine, Submachine Gun (the default Uzi), Mini and Micro (the Uzi Pro is a more advanced variation of the Micro). An Uzi Pistol is a civilian variation of the Micro Uzi: which has no automatic fire.
History[]
Uziel Gal was born December 15, 1923 in Germany. When the Nazi Party rose to power, Uziel fled from Germany and eventually lived in Israel.
Israel declared its statehood on 14 May 1948. However this was seen as highly controversial for many reasons; Arab nations declared it to be a western puppetstate that displaced the native Palestinian population with an illegal mass migration of Jews. The Israeli Jews however had their own ancestral claims to the lands. The Arabs were outraged and invaded Israel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
When the war ended, Uziel Gal and the Israeli Army saw the need for Israelis to create their own weapons for self defense against their hostile neighbors.
The Uzi is popular for its cheap metal parts, high rate of fire, and mechanical simplicity. The most noticeable innovation of the Uzi was that it had a magazine-grip; a design only previously seen in semi-automatic pistols. This allowed the Uzi to be much shorter in length than submachine guns that require the magazine to be separate from the grip.
The Mini Uzi is used by armed forces, paramilitaries, and criminal organizations around the world, due to its compact size and reliability.
Use By The Medellin Cartel[]
Sicarios would frequently use the Uzi to assassinate police and politicians that opposed them. Sicarios exploited the density of the city of Medellin to make sure that their targets could not flee. An infamous tactic was for a motorcyclist sicario to weave through city traffic, park next to their target (during a traffic jam or red light), and fire at point blank range, before driving back through the traffic. Driveby shootings were also common.
Pablo Escobar, during his final years dodging the police, implemented The Pistol Plan to escalate his war against the police. This strategy involved the Cartel donating large quantities of guns to gangs across the city, in exchange for the gangs assassinating police (especially for the individual police that Pablo announced a bounty for).