
Arsenal Blog 005: American-180
SILENCERCO’S ARSENAL SERIES showcases guns we love for various reasons that reside in our in-house arsenal. We are best-known for making guns quiet in order to do this, we must interact with a great variety of amazing platforms. In these posts we will tell you about each platform we like, why it’s different and relevant, and why we think it belongs in our pantheon of greatness. The American-180 is an Austrian-made, blowback open bolt submachine gun chambered in .22 LR and is fed from a spring-loaded, top-mounted drum magazine. The original concept for the American-180 came from a man named