Japanese Type 1 Paratroop Folding Rifles
Prototype & Trials Weapons
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Before standardizing on the Type 2 paratroop rifle (a 7.7mm Arisaka that broke in half at the chamber), the Japanese military tested a variant of the Type 38 carbine with a folding stock retrofitted into place. Very few of these were made.
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