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== Intratec [[I Have Many Names|TEC-9/TEC-DC9/AB-10]] ==

Probably among the most infamous guns in America, the TEC-9 was originally developed by the Swedish company Interdynamic AB in a quest to build a simple and inexpensive submachine gun. Since Sweden, a wealthy, industrialized country where law enforcement carries much fancier weapons, is a poor market for a cheap SMG, they established an American subsidiary called Intratec to sell semi-auto versions of the gun in the lucrative American civilian market. Gun enthusiasts paid it little attention, as it was inaccurate, unreliable and too big to be carried comfortably. However, the gun had several things going in its favor, namely its low price, its [[More Dakka|32-round magazine capacity]], its menacing appearance (it was originally designed as a submachine gun, after all) and, most importantly, its open-bolt design, which made it (relatively) easy to convert back to full-auto with only a few modifications. All of these factors made it very popular among criminals and spree killers in [[The Eighties]] and [[The Nineties]], earning it a reputation as ''the'' "[[Good Guns, Bad Guns|gangsta gun]]" -- something that was eventually noticed by the ATF. Intratec was forced to redesign the gun twice to comply with gun control laws; the first redesign, the TEC-[[DC 9]], made it so that it couldn't be converted to full-auto, and the second, the AB-10, was done to comply with the Assault Weapons Ban. Intratec never came out and said so, but "AB" is generally believed to stand for "After Ban". As the Assault Weapons Ban largely targeted cosmic features deemed "scary-looking", such as barrel shrouds, the AB-10 was functionally unchanged from the TEC-[[DC 9]].

* You can use a full-auto TEC-9 in ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]: [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]]'' and ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas|San Andreas]]''.