cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/56966004
There is very little to go on here, the photo seems to have been taken in the Gothemburg area, possibly at a competition of some sort.
I am no gun expert, I don’t know what kind of SMG the man is holding.
I just found this photo interesting as it is unusual to see a person not in uniform holding any military weapon in Sweden.
The photo is in the public domain.
Im no gun wizard, but that looks to my untrained eye to be a PPD-40 with a box magazine instead of a drum?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPD-40?wprov=sfti1
Im assuming its a PPD and not PPSh because of the … back bit by his eye above the stock (not the sights)
The wooden stock and the magazine assembly look more like a suomi KP/-31. On the ppd the wood either extends beyond the magazine shaft or it is a two-part wooden stock but it also extends beyond the magazine.
Only thing I can’t quite make fit with the suomi is the air cooling holes in the barrel cover, I can’t find any pictures of a suomi or ppd with only two holes in a row, they all seem to have more.
You’re right about it not being a ppsh, as far as I know they had curved stick magazines not straight ones.
I think I have found it!
I think it is a Swedish “kpist m/37-39”.
https://smallarmsreview.com/swedish-quality-the-kpist-m-37-and-m-37-39-submachine-guns/
The m/37 has the magazine slightly angled backwards due to it using the 9x20mm Browning Long cartridge, which I don’t see in the picture.
The m/37-39 has a straight magazine as it is designed to use 9x19 Parabellum cartridges.
The m/37-39 was also produced in far greater numbers than the m/37.
Here you can find more info
https://smallarmsreview.com/swedish-quality-the-kpist-m-37-and-m-37-39-submachine-guns/
Yeah that looks correct, good job!
I did have a closer look at it now, and I wounder if it is a Soumi SMG…
