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A pre-war Czech anti-tank rifle that was quickly retooled to an incredibly high-velocity 8mm Mauser cartridge, upon the German takeover of Czechoslovakia, and the SS subsequently buying up the Brno arms factory (remained Waffenwerke Brünn) from Nazi state auction of confiscated Czech industrial assets, so as to grow their empire in occupied Europe.
Deliberately starved by the army from weapons procurement, the SS employed an enormous amount of well-made Czech firearms, including pistols, sub machine guns, light machine guns, heavy machine gun and rifles, ranging from the simple infantry-standard bolt-actions, to crewed anti-tank weapons, like the PzB. M.SS.1941
An order was placed for roughly 10,000 units of the rifle to be made, though given its obsolescence in penetrating tank armor by early 1942, only about 1,000 were made and delivered, mostly to SS units, who still found use for them in an anti-materiel role for the duration of the war.
The rifle feeds from a 10rd detachable box magazine and uses an interesting feeding mechanism, in which the pistol grip is rotated after firing a shot, and the whole barrel assembly is pushed forward to eject the spent cartridge, before the weapon is cycled and ready to fire again. There’s footage of how the weapon operates here.
As the production run (and procurement) was relatively limited, I feel this might be best fit to an event weapon, alongside the Grosse Panzergrenate rifle grenades I posted about earlier.
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