The Last Ditch Rifle Germany Built to Be Thrown Away

The Last-Ditch Rifle Germany Built to Be Thrown Away A steel press stamps out a flat sheet of metal in a cellar workshop in Suhl, in the winter of nineteen forty-five. A man bends it, rivets it, and screws a spare barrel onto the end. In about an hour he has built a rifle. It has no fine machining, and no polish either. How it actually worked: A rifle built to skip every step that makes a rifle good, so a bombed-out Germany could arm millions of untrained conscripts fast Gas-delayed blowback with no locking breech, firing the same short Kurz round as the StG 44 assault rifle Roughly 39 parts against the hundreds of machining steps a Kar 98k demanded, stamped out in about an hour About 10,000 built in the last months of the war, a fraction of the target Handed to the Volkssturm home guard, old men and Hitler Youth boys, in the last stand of the Reich The secret file on Volkssturmgewehr is pinned in the top comment. Subscribe for more forgotten weapons, and name the next one below. #WW2 #Volkssturm #ForgottenWeapons #Volkssturmgewehr #WorldWar2