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RE: WW2 Firearms trivia question
The answer to the question depends on what Greybeard considers "issued...for use with regular infantry".
The Polish SLR was produed in VERY low numbers, having finished design not too long before the start of the war. The Soviet AVS36 was aborted as Randy mentions. The Tokarev was supposed to replace the bolt action rifles in the Soviet RDs, and almost 2 million were produced by the time the Germans invaded and the Russians switched to production of the bolt action rifles again because they could be built faster and cheaper.
I would have to say GB was thinking of the Tokarev when he posted this.
Of course I could quibble with his definition of a European nation if that's what he's talking about...the USSR was more in Asia than Europe.
Didn't the Belgians actually develop but not field an SLR prior to WWII? The FAL ended up being based on it, I thought.
Paul
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