Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The cycle of fear that drives assault weapon sales [View all]jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)ezra: Yes, a Mosin...a very nice Finn M39 on a 1905 Izhevsk hex receiver still bearing the Romanov crest, rebarreled and converted to M39 configuration in 1942...
This explains my uncertainty: The Mosin Nagant is a historic Russian military rifle but a number of other countries, including Finland, produced their own variations of these guns, as well.
Evidently was also used by the russians to push back the finns past the mannerheim line in 1940 winter war (border war, karelia iirc): .. rifle was used on both sides of the Winter War and the Continuation War during World War II.
.. previous was used by tsar nicholas in the bolshevik revolution ~1918 (after withdrawal from wwI) by his white russians, as well as trotsky/lenin (having some ukrainian blood, I sometimes wonder which side I would've aligned with if alive then - tsarists, lesser of 2 evils, tho tsar nich was a good person imo, & had OTMA = 4 loverly russian daughters, rasputin be damned).
wiki: During the Russian Civil War infantry and dragoon versions were still in production, though in dramatically reduced numbers. The rifle was widely used by Bolsheviks, Black Guards and their enemies, the White Russians (Tsarists were white russians - counter-revolutionary).
OTMA = 4 dottirs = Olga, Tatyana (my favorite), Maria, Anastasia; he & they needed a few mosin nagants in siberia a few years later, when they were all murdered at the same time: