Re: Photos - Germans with captured firearms
Post Number:#1274 Postby Burżujsky on 18 Apr 2013, 10:36
Hi
I have a question concerning the smg you can see in this picture:
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/ ... .html?i=10
Is this a suomi?
PLZ help with this riddle.
JTV wrote:Burżujsky wrote:Is this a suomi?
Welcome to forum. Yes, it seems to be Suomi submachine gun. It is also rather commonly known that Stroop's SS-troops had Suomi submachine guns among their weaponry from other photos taken during uprising of Warsaw Ghetto.
Jarkko
Hi Jarkko,
Thank you for your answer. Suomi was my first guess and it fits from the factual point of view (was used by SS during the Ghetto Uprising) and this looks like KP/-31 SJR (suujarru, or "muzzle brake") version. Noneheless, there is a part of the barrel shroud missing (compare it with a photo on this website -
http://www.2jager.com/submachine.htm) no Copyright infringement intended.
And if you look closely at the section of the gun between the magazine and the muzzle brake you will notice that it is different from the "regular" suomi. Notice the groove immediatelly above the magazine (in the forend of the butt) which extends towards the butt. Again, this is inconsistent with the pictures I have seen.
Any thouths anyone?