Calico M-950

The Calico is a small American company, manufacturing firearms. It was established in 1982 and released its first weapon in 1985. It was originally designed as a submachine gun, but evolved into a line of unusual pistols, semi-automatic carbines and submachine guns with helical high-capacity magazines. The Calico company offers an entire family of firearms based on the same design. The M950 submachine gun was the baseline product of this company proposed for military market and law enforcement forces. It was introduced in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The Calico weapons have a number of advanced and even revolutionary features, as well as unusual styling. However there were significant reliability issues with these weapons. Eventually for various reasons these submachine guns were not adopted by any country and were produced only in limited numbers. Sales of civilian versions were also not so bright.