AVS 36: The First Soviet Infantry Battle Rifle

The AVS36 was the first selfloading rifle adopted by the Soviet Union to be a standard infantry rifle, and it was not just semiautomatic, but also capable of fully automatic fire. Designed by Sergei Simonov over the course of about ten years, it would only last a short time in service before being replaced by the Tokarev SVT38 and then SVT40. The AVS36 uses a short stroke gas piston system that remains popular to this day, and a quite unusual locking system incorporating two asymmetrical locking flaps and a vertically traveling locking block. It is striker fired, with semi and full auto selector positions and a 15round detachable magazine (plus stripper clip guide). In total, 65, 800 were made between 1934 and 1940, with true mass production beginning in 1937. Cool Forgotten Weapons merch Contact: Forgotten Weapons PO Box 87647 Tucson, AZ 85754