Great Youtube series comparing the different weapons. The Japan one is really cool!

US Versus Germany

US Versus Japan. Japan had some terrible grenades and their rifles were taller than them.

Brit weapons

Most produced weapons 37 million Nagants.

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Either the title is wrong or the data was just straight up taken from wikipedia.
The β€œduring WW2” claimed by the title is absolutely wrong as the data include pre-war and even post war production figures.
Some of the weapons like the Berthier rifle were not even in production by 1939. So the title should have been most numerous WW2 era guns.

Ofcourse it is very difficult to track production of guns that were made 8 or 11 decades ago, especially in a smaller specific time frame, however at least some rough data is available if you dig enough.
For example Mosin production during WW2 was only around 12 million and most of the rest comes from pre-war or even pre-Soviet production. Its worth noting that Poland, Finland, Baltic states, China and Spain had inhereted millions of Mosin-Nagant rifles from pre-WW2 conflicts, so even the claim that the video is about the total availability would be simply wrong.

Please stay away from AI generated videos like this one. They are based on average joe youtube rants on why a gun he had never fired himself is superior to another gun he had only seen in video games or take data from the first website without checking the reliability of information.

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Its more likely taken from Wiki where they put pre war production like Karabiner 98k (Kar98k) that normally they include all production from 1934. But its full of strange claims we all know its anotehr soviet weapon the most produced firearm in history. Its for sure AK-47.

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