Chechen Home-Made Weapons

English Russia, a humorous blog about all things Russia, has photos of home-made firearms confiscated by police and army in Chechnya.

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1 1 tm Chechen Home Made Weapons photo
30mm or 40mm grenade launcher?

11 tm Chechen Home Made Weapons photo
Looks like a Baikal over and under shotgun
with pistol grip and cut down barrel.

12 1 tm Chechen Home Made Weapons photo
Pretty nifty carbine.

Many more at English Russia.

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Steve Dec 9th 2008 handguns, photos, rifles, shotguns, strange guns, weapons Tags: , , , , , , 5 Comments

5 Responses to “Chechen Home-Made Weapons”

  1. Nickon 10 Dec 2008 at 1:01 pm link comment

    oh jeez who has NOT seen these pictures, i am surprised that you left the improvised SMG’s out of it, they are the real beauties of the Chechen arsenal.

  2. Steveon 10 Dec 2008 at 1:13 pm link comment

    Nick, I hadn’t seen them before ;)

  3. Dennison 25 Dec 2008 at 10:04 am link comment

    I have never seen this and I am pretty hard core reader about guns.

  4. Dinoon 12 Feb 2009 at 6:46 pm link comment

    The grenade launcher even appears to have a safety (the semicircular notched pivoting piece.) That’s pretty thoughtful…wonder if they figured that one out the hard way, with no trigger guard.

    I kinda like the over-and-under pistol, in an asthetic way.

    The carbine’s something else. Based on a Spanish Destroyer perhaps? Hooded front sight, tangent rear, and a fifteen-plus-one capacity, what’s not to like?

  5. V.I.P.on 23 May 2009 at 3:47 pm link comment

    wow. I wonder how effective those weapons are.

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