Leningrad's Emergency-Production PPS-42 at the Range
Russia / USSR
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Yesterday we looked at the history of the PPS-42 and how it was developed into the much more common PPS-43. Today we are taking it out to the range - the only time one of these very scarce gun has been filmed in recent history.
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