From the Vault: Czech VZ 58 Rifle 

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that might change this week =(

Ryan Burdon Yeah unfortunately that's how it looks. Apparently there already looking at making Ar-15's and handguns prohibited next. Worst part is, registered Canadian gun owners are 3x less likely to commit a crime and less then 1% of gun crimes in Canada are committed with registered firearms. So C-71 isn't gonna do a heck of a lot in crime prevention, other then make it harder on legal gun owners.

@@ZER0-C00L I heard all semiautomatic center fire weapons, military-ish...

@Paul Lo Cicero It probably would have. It it based more on the older SKS and german STG.

@Paul Lo Cicero The Czech are very proud of their Firearms Industry. They would never let some cheap soviet Stuff enter their ecosystem XD.

@Paul Lo Cicero if something hits the back of the firing pin, it's a hammer. If the firing pin strikes with its own force, it's a striker.

@Paul Lo Cicero you've seen the inside of a vz58, right? The hammer is linear rather than rotary.

@Paul Lo Cicero the vz58 is linear hammer fired, because the hammer "linearly" impacts the firing pin. Whereas a glocks striker itself travels and impacts the primer of a cartridge.

@Paul Lo Cicero ffs man, the hammer in the VZ58 is one piece metal part driven by spring that impacts ON the firing pin ... its a HAMMER it just moves straight instead of being rotary, if the firing pin was the part of the assembly moving then it would be "striker" you see for use czechs the "hammer" is just a subsection of "striker" firing systems, for us "úderník" includes rotary hammer, linear hammer or striker which is defined as striking mass with INTEGRATED FIRING PIN ... so please stop trying to act as if you know what the people who designed the firearm in the first place call the firing mechanism, because for us calling it "úderník" which you will inevitably translate as "striker" encompases HAMMERS allso ... and as there is distinction between true Glock like "striker" and LINEAR HAMMER for us czechs that is what actually counts. if you really want to be assinine with being clinically specific in calling it what it is please use from now on "lineární úderník bez integrovaného zápalníku" dont know about you but calling it linear hammer is much MUCH easier while telling people who know anything about firearms exactly what they can expect - linearly moving mass of metal striking stationary firing pin that transfers the impact force to the primer ...

Because Czechoslovakia didn't want the AK - Czechia had long firearm industry history, so why should they use something like AK? Czechs designed amazing things - a great example can be the BREN LMG. This weapon was not only a rifle for the army but also a huge 🖕 to the Soviet Union.

How is being cheaper to produce make an AK47 better? Generally the opposite is true. Lexus > Toyota, for instance.

@@rob21 Well, if you are going to produce rifles for your Army, the price of the issued rifle is something to consider.

TheHighwayman that’s what she said.

Ah sure :)

Erik The Czechs say otherwise.

@Paul Lo Cicero We do not agree for sure. We loved our 'Scythe' and the CZ2000 did not make it through the first series of testing. Even back then, it was an already old weapon system. It would have cost the military a lot of money with nearly no benefits. Special troops and vehicle drivers preffered the vz.61, because of it's smaller size. There was really no reason to replace the vz.58. And vz.59 is still used today, slowly replaced by the FN MINIMI.