Mac 10

The Mac-10 is a sub-machine gun available in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and a silenced version in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. It is known as the Ingram Mac 10 in the original PS2 version of Vice City, Mac in Liberty City Stories, and Silenced MG in Vice City Stories.

Description

The MAC-10, abbreviation of Military Armament Corporation Model 10, is a recoil operated sub-machine gun (technically, a "machine pistol") developed in the United States from the 1960s to 1980s. The gun was originally designed for use by police forces, and even saw limited service in the Vietnam War, however it was soon proven that such a small gun cannot accurately fire beyond 20 meters at such a high rate of fire. Its manufacture continued until 1986 when post-dated fully automatic firearms were banned for civilian ownership, and no government agencies showed interest. The MAC-10 achieved success through Hollywood rather than real life, because few of the guns ever made it into the hands of criminals, and even then were marginally effective. The Mac-10 is similar to the Tech-9 only that it has faster rate of fire. In GTA Vice City and Liberty City Stories, the Mac-10 has an unbelievable fast rate of fire and can shoot up to 30 rounds in five seconds, in fact it is faster than the Micro Uzi or Micro SMG. In GTA Vice City Stories, the silencer has slowed down the Mac-10's rate of fire and thus it's not able to fire as many rounds at a limited amount of time as it's predecessor. The silencer on this incarnation of the MAC-10 may be a reference to the movie Pulp Fiction.

In Game

Typically, no one uses the Mac-10 in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, except for the Ammu-Nation owner in Ocean Beach. When aimed a gun at, he uses a Mac-10 and the shots don't take a lot of damage, but they fire fast. In Vice City Stories, the Silenced Mac-10 is used by many players througout the game. Some of your gang members use Macs to defend themselves.

Gallery

In-Game model

GTA Vice City.

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Tommy Vercetti wielding a MAC-10 in GTA Vice City.

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Toni firing a MAC-10

GTA Vice City Stories.

toni firing from a pcj-600

HUD icons

GTA Vice City.

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GTA Liberty City Stories

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GTA Vice City Stories

Locations

GTA Vice City

• Ocean Beach - Can be bought from the Ammu-Nation. ($300)
• Viceport - Spawns across Chartered Libertine Lines and the Boatyard next to a Rumpo parked there.

GTA Liberty City Stories

• Harwood, Portland - Spawns near the junkyard and the car crusher, with fences around.
• Bedford Point, Staunton Island - In the southeast end of the Bedford Point car park.

GTA Vice City Stories

• Little Havana - The Mac-10 spawns in an alleyway near a Sanchez and across a graffiti east of Café Robina.
• Starfish Island - Behind Diaz's mansion.
• Also, can be taken from wasted Vic gang members.

Trivia

• The weapon was originally supposed to have a silencer in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The silenced version can be seen on the game's official website. Text strings in the game files also refer to the weapon as SilencedIngram.
• As the Vice City HUD suggests, the micro uzi from GTA:III was going to return in Vice City

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See also

• Micro-SMG
• Micro Uzi