It would be nice to have this gun with a rare swedish magazine. It was found at the north part of soviet-german front ( well, Finnish and Norway border Frontline )
Hey, @_DELAVR maybe we have some docs around, ace?
In the late 1930s, Sweden developed a four-column box magazine (often nicknamed the “coffin” magazine) with a 50-round capacity for the Suomi submachine gun. It was designed as a cheaper and lighter alternative to the standard 70-round drum. Finland purchased the license and launched mass production in 1941, manufacturing over 120,000 units in hopes of simplifying troop equipment.
The design, which featured two wide internal compartments that funneled into a single feed point, proved too delicate for harsh combat conditions. These compartments and their tapered springs were extremely sensitive to dirt and physical impact. The spring coils frequently tangled, causing feed jams—especially when the magazine was fully loaded. On the front lines, it gained a reputation for unreliability, as even slight deformations of the casing would cause the cartridges to bind.
Due to widespread complaints from the field, the Finns halted production of these magazines by the fall of 1943, reverting entirely to drum magazines. Post-war attempts to improve the design (including reducing the capacity to 45 rounds) failed. In the 1950s, they were replaced by the more reliable 36-round double-stack magazines from the Swedish Carl Gustaf, and the old four-column “coffins” were eventually scrapped for metal.
Why add a gun from a neutral country that didn’t fight in the war, and didn’t sell this perticular gun to anyone or send it as aid to anyone…? Just use the actual Finnish gun, rather than a foreign liscence production of it.
Voting no because of that. Magazine is fine, but not this gun.
If you didn’t intent for your suggestion to have this meaning, then I suggest editing your suggestion to make that clear, and remove any mention of the Kpist m/37.
with 50 rounds, its more like BR4 actually.
50 rounds with almost ppsh ROF? dang, I dunno
Definitely BR 4. It would be a cool addition!
Br 4 more likely not br 3… Unless there’s a 35 mag versión ; )
Well there’s an 20 round one, and I think an 30 one.
