Soviet SVT 38 Self Loading Rifle

A lot of people think that the US was the only country in World War II to massissue a semiautomatic infantry rifle, but that isn t true. While the US was the only country to issue everyone a semi auto, both the Soviet Union and Germany produced large numbers of them. The Soviet rifle in particular was developed over pretty much the same timeline as the M1 Garand, and literally millions of them were made and used in the war. Today we are taking a look at the second Soviet selfloader adopted as an infan