The Most Concealable Machine Gun Ever Invented… and Where to Get One for Yourself!

Imagine a machine gun with a fire rate of 650 rounds a minute. That’s just over 10 bullets per second. Imagine that it’s in 9×19 parabellum. Now lastly, imagine that it looks nothing like a gun.

This 80’s innovation was spawned from the mind of Francis Warren from ARES Incorporated. He decided that people everywhere, businessmen especially, needed high efficacy protection.

The adversaries couldn’t know that their “victims” were carrying until it was far, far too late. Until they were no longer a threat.

Warren knew that concealability was ruled by handguns. He also knew that handguns wouldn’t provide the required level of protection. How? Because they weren’t.

Our dear inventor at ARES knew that he had to be the one to solve the problem, too. That’s because he had what he believed to be one of the best concealability ideas that anyone ever had…

A folding machine gun. One with a fire rate, caliber, usability, and efficiency comparable to other SMG’s, but with a simple trick.

The barrel of the gun, as well as the stock, fold around the handle and the magazine! Yes, a few other folding machine guns do this, but those are outside the scope of this article.

Mainly because of the inventor’s stark and ironclad defense of what the second amendment could be, but we’ll get to that…

The Gun Itself

This impressive specimen of a conceal-carry weapon was only 20 inches long with a 6.75 inch long barrel! Just imagine how amazingly small it can be while in its folded configuration! Not only that, it only weighed five and a quarter pounds loaded! There were only two of these impressive little things made, but they could sure pack a punch with their 20 or 32 round Uzi mags! Hell, this thing could’ve been called the “Folding Uzi” were it not for one critical thing…

Select-fire capabilities! Three round bursts, full auto, or semi-automatic fire! All of them were possible with this invention.

To fit all of these capabilities, along with a safety in a 5 pound package? Not only that, but the concealability that folding the weapon allows!

Don’t let this key point of this firearm fly over your head! Imagine how it would look folded…

Absolutely nothing like a traditional gun.

I’m sorry that I can’t provide you with an image of the weapon in it’s folded configuration, but just keep in mind that you’d never be able to tell it was a gun.

You’d never think it was until the less-than-3-second deployment time was over, it was pointed at you, and three rounds were already in your chest! It’s an amazing piece of technology that has a place in today’s world, despite it’s lack of full production!

How do I know that? Well, it went on to inspire many, many other guns. Some might even call them knockoffs.

The UC-9 is one of those many guns. It was designed after the Ares FMG was patented and also has a very similar folding configuration! Though the UC-9 is much more popular (it was actually in the movie Robocop!), is still in production today, and also has a few key differences that set it aside from the Ares FMG.

Not only that, the Russian PP-90 is a near-identical reproduction of the Ares FMG! Let me show you.

As you can see, this firearm is very similar to the Ares FMG. In fact, it’s near-identical! A few of the differences are:

• The PP-90 is still in use today by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs or the MVP!
• It uses a 9×18 Makarov cartridge…
• However a version that uses the 9×19 Parabellum cartridges that we’re used to here in the west was released under the name PP-92!

All that is to say, if you’re looking for a modern day Ares FMG, the most accurate you can get on the general market is the PP-92! There are other folding machine guns, but most of them still look somewhat like weapons systems when folded. The all black metal design of the Ares FMG and the PP series allow the gun to effectively transform into a nondescript metal box!

The Inventor

Francis J Warin has been repeatedly arrested for (in our opinion) amazingly based conduct that you can read about in The Blade, a news publication out of Toledo, Ohio! There’s just a bit more to be found on Francis on the internet, like court transcripts of his hearings and one or two other articles that house much less information than this one or the one linked above.

With all that said, I believe that we’ve concluded the story of Francis J Warin and the Ares FMG! I’m glad to have given you all a nice story to read today. Thanks so much for stopping by our website, and make sure to keep browsing these insane gun articles as well as our roster of high quality products including the Griffith Guns GG92, the best compensator on the market for the M9!