# Nils Lundin 1940 self-loading rifle

Nils Lundin 1940 self-loading rifle

r/ForgottenWeapons - Nils Lundin 1940 self-loading rifle

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Any actual info? The photos are available on the web - but how many made? How far was it developed?

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It’s remarkable only in that I’ve never heard of it, and maybe the thumbhole stock. That said; I want to know more.

Experimental bayonet for Lundin semiautomatic rifle
In the late 1930s trials were performed with different automatic rifles, and among them was the rifle designed by N.F. Lundin.
Nils Lundin was an engineer at the Carl Gustaf Rifle Factory, maybe the best known engineer.

In the 1930’s he designed the automatic rifle m/36L system Lundin. (The rifle showed athe the former Vapentekniska Muséet was designated fm/40)
This bayonet is a bayonet m/1914 but with the muzzle ring replaced by a T-slot.
The Infantry Shooting School (“Infanteriskjutskolan”) tested the rifle with great success. The report stated:

Seems to be missing what the report stated??

Maybe a link to the report too??