I like how you can always tell if a gun is from a cold place by how big the trigger guard is
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Husqvarna makes guns? Thought they only made chainsaws.
Also motorcycles.
they're out of that business now, but they did produce a bunch of guns, usually foreign designs under license
Apparently they made a PPS-43 knock off
I’m glad they transitioned into making lawn mowers and chainsaws.
I get that it was a prototype but was this designed to be made as cheaply as possible with machining tools that were designed for stuff other than gunsmithing? The receiver and barrel look like they're machined out of one solid tube with the magazine catch and trigger assembly welded on. It reminds me of those craft produced slamfire guns that the IRA would make in sheds.
The receiver and barrel look like they're machined out of one solid tube
I assume you mean barrel shroud, but that's not such an atypical design choice - the PPSh-41 & PPS-43 both have an upper receiver and barrel shroud which are made as a single stamped component (with some extra bending in the PPSh-41's case to "close" the shroud, while the PPS-43 just leaves it open at the bottom)
Notably, the PPS-42 actually did have the shroud as a separate component - merging it with the receiver was exactly one of the optimizations made in the transition to the proper production PPS-43
Those guns do at least have a more proper lower receiver though, rather than just a small rectangle for the trigger group and some more bits around the magazine, but there are other guns which are similarly "minimal", like the Chinese Type 85 or Italian TZ-45, or even the British Sterling which is relatively nice as far as subguns of this period go (and the Sterling is also another example of a single-piece receiver and barrel shroud)
And technically, there are even modern guns which apply a similar principle, just with aluminum extrusion rather than steel stamping, like the FN SCAR
I always appreciate how much you know about this stuff. I've actually fired a British sterling at a range and can attest that they're pretty nice to shoot, given that it was an 80 year old gun. Thank you! I didn't know how common it was to have a singular stamped piece of metal for the receiver and barrel shroud.