re: #86 chadu

Socialists can’t use guns?

The Mosin-Nagat rifle was used by Russia and after the revolution it remained in the service of the Red Army.

In addition to those Westinghouse rifles, Winchester also sold Russia over 100,000 Model 1895 lever-action rifles chambered in 7.62x54R. Colt supplied Russia with its M1895 ‘potato digger’ machine gun, so named because the gas-actuated lever arm below the barrel. Both of those guns were designed by John Browning.

Savage arms also produced a few thousand Lewis Guns in 7.62x54R, but it is unknown how many actually reached Russia. Enough did make it for the Wehrmacht to have captured them from Leningrad militia in 1941.