Ppsh-41?

[buck00]

Ok I have to ask. I have done searches on this both here and google, and have found very little info or availability on semi-auto PPSH-41's.

Then out of the blue I see this:

http://www.militarygunsupply.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=FIRUPPSH41

RUSSIAN PPSH-41 SEMIAUTOMATIC

Wholesale Price: $795.00


Is this legit? What is the deal? I saw drums were only $20 on other sites. Seems like a good deal, if it works ok. Anyone have any comments or advice on this? Anyone deal with this company before?

 

[foob]

It's semi-auto. Receiver and trigger assembly is different from original design. So if you are going only for the looks, it's good to go. The company is fine, they are a gunboards.com sponsor.

Also barrel lengthened to 16".

 

[rugbyer81]

What happened to all the ppsh's after WW2? If I know the Soviets, they made alot of them, and I cant imagine that they would just get rid of them. Are they still in warehouses somewhere?

 

[El Tejon]

Warehouses in the Urals. I went to grad school with a couple of refusniks. Sergei, after surviving basic ("grandfather", dedushka, beaten in, especially hard if Jewish), ended up with the Central Asian labor battalions buidling and maintaining warehouses. NKVD picked everything, everything up off the battlefields and stored it.

Lots of guns were given over to good socialist brothers. However, they still have them, oceans of guns which Clinton I slammed the door on with his VRA of '96 (can you imagine how cheap German and Soviet guns would be by now without the VRA? They would be given away in cereal boxes. Feds worst nightmare).

 

[foob]

So why doesn't Bush rescind the VRA? (I assume it's some executive order) Would the local gun industry oppose such a move? Didn't Bush expand the Norinco ban?

 

[El Tejon]

Why not? Politics. Bush would be "putting more guns on the street". It's not like a bunch of blue-blood East Coast Eloi, like Bush, are in favor of arming the peasantry anyway. You rabble are simply uncoth, armed you are much more uncoth.

By "local gun industry" do you mean domestic? If so, then yes. Their trade group supported Clinton I's VRA and has historically supported any import bans which act as fences to keep competition out. In fact Smith and Wesson among others supported the first versions of the 1968 SSA which kept out military surplus which S&W felt was affecting their sales (which were introduced by JFK as a Senator).

Bush expanded the China sanctions, not just specific to Norinco. Other princelings have companies in the PRC that are in manufacturing in many areas and to punish the PLA, Bush included them as well.

 

[foob]

Thanks for the clarifications.

 

[sgphoto]

Before your buy one of those "PPSh-41" go here and read the reviews from several users.

http://www.gunboards.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=224583

From my reading it sounds as though there are Bubbas on the assembly line and several major kinks to be worked out.

Give them several months before buying one to see if they get it right. It's taken them over a year to bring it out but it seems that QC is lacking. YMMV.

Steve