Best known is the Volkssturmgewehr by Gustloff which was a gas-delayed blowback semi-automatic rifle. The Walther Volkssturmgewehr VG 1 is a manually operated bolt-action rifle. It uses a simple rotating bolt, with locking provided by the two frontal lugs; the crude bolt handle engages a cut in the cast steel receiver to provide additional safety.

The VG1 is a basic rotating bolt action rifle in design, with two locking lugs in front and the bolt handle functioning as a third lug. They were made by a wide range of companies, and known examples show many variations in all sorts of details. The receivers were milled from blocks of bar stock, and barrels were pressed and pinned in place.

2021年9月2日 · This program developed the kind of simplified firearms needed at this late stage of the war, including a German copy of the STEN submachine gun designated MP3008 Volksmaschinenpistole.

Volkssturmgewehr VG-2. The VG-2 is a bolt-action rifle with a rotary cylinder breech, which was manufactured in the last phase of the Second World War for the Volkssturm. The case for the breech has steel plate and the visor is also not adjustable and just like the VG-1 the magazine of the semi-automatic rifle 43 with 10 rounds was used.

This spawned four such guns of varying sophistication, these Volks Gewehr or ‘people’s guns’ included: Two simple rotating-bolt action rifles which used the Gewehr 43’s 8mm Mauser 10-round box magazine were developed, the Volks Gewehr 1 (photo #1) and the Volks Gewehr 2 (see photo #2) which both have simple fixed sights which were ...

2018年6月9日 · This spawned a number of prototypes with varying degrees of sophistication, the so-called VolksGewehr or ‘people’s guns’. The best known of these is perhaps the Gustloff Volkssturmgewehr or MP 507 -often referred to as the VG 1-5.

2013年8月27日 · Gun Lab is now back into full swing. The objects are still the same. That is discussing the design, prototyping and the building of small arms, their parts and accessories. The first project is the Gustoff Volkssturmgewehr, model MP-507, and commonly called the VG1-5 …

2012年5月21日 · The Volksturmgewehr Gustloff (commonly and incorrectly called the VG1-5) was a last-ditch rifle developed by Germany at the end of World War II. Only a few thousand were made, and they did not make a significant impact on the war. The rifle was intended to are the Volksturm, the German equivalent of the Home Guard – basically old men and children.

2011年2月16日 · As a result, a variety of barrel lengths and profiles are to be found on VG1 rifles. You can find more details on the construction of the VG1 on the Walther VG1 page in the Vault, along with a gallery of detailed photographs. But one other element of interest (to me anyway), is the use of standard K43 magazines for the weapon.

2015年4月22日 · The VG 1-5 was a self-loading assault rifle hurriedly developed by the Suhl based Gustloft-Werke as part of the Primitiv Waffen Programm of 1944: the weapons were intended for issued to the Volksstrum and sundry last-ditch organizations which ultimately came to …