The world's rarest machine gun? The Steyr Solothurn S3-200
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6m 9s
One of the first 'General Purpose Machine Guns' (GPMG), this Swiss designed weapon was actually a crafty workaround by Nazi weapons designers to circumvent weapons limitations and would eventually lay the ground work for the MG 34.
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