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I am an old man ,but back in the early 70's my step father went into the attic and handed me a oil soaked cloth with a stg 44 brand new in it .he was going to have me drive to Ohio river and through it in .I talked him into trading me a CB radio for it .I was on the County sherriff's dept at that time that has been 40 years ago I still have the gun .It has never been fired. any buddy interested and willing to make bid contact me .It even has paperwork in Germain in stockhhammond@cinci.rr.com
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Strictly speaking I think the Avtomat Federova was the first assault rifle in history, because it had the basic definition of an assault rifle; automatic fire, and a shortened rifle cartridge.
But from what I've read, it was rather underveloped, unreliable, and it tended to jam. I think it does deserve credit as a first attempt, but I still think that the St44 was the first PRACTICAL, soldier proof, assault rifle. |
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I'm going to have to say, the earlier one doesn't count, the Ariska wasn't a shortened cartridge, it was a full powered rifle cartridge, just on the weaker end of the spectrum, I say that doesn't count, cause it's not, from what I can gather, a deliberately smaller version of a "full powered" rifle round.
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