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Then again, something like a lever-action.22 or even a Mauser would do in a pinch for something like this.

Basically, I'd consider myself well equipped if I had most any originally military rifle starting with the Mauser 1898.

The design is very forgiving after all, it was for the field and back in a period when ammo was often marginal (hence its grossly overpowered mainspring, Mauser style positive feed and claw extractor, etc.).

In the mid 80s my best friend brought in a select fire (aka full auto capable) mauser c96 with the case that doubles as a stock.

Heckler and Koch, a German engineering company (and later gun company) formed by three former Mauser engineers.

I have a Nazi proof-marked Mauser K98 rifle.

Gary Mauser – in their exhaustive study of American and European gun laws and violence rates, are telling: Nations with stringent anti-gun laws generally have substantially higher murder rates than those that do not.

For one I'd actually shoot, an ex-Nazi, ex-IDF Mauser rifle in.308, with Nazi proofmark and IDF star on the same receiver, and a Hebrew name on the stock.

Of course the catch is that it's dumb to mock things as 'WW2 era weaponry.' A Talibani armed with a Springfield 1903, or Mauser 1898, numbers indicating their manufacturing date, is not only able to kill literally any soldier, but also from extremely far distances.

* The minimum gun is a military grade bolt action rifle with a 5 round or greater magazine, anything like the Mauser 1898 (sic) or the many guns inspired by it or that evolved in parallel.

Say "Mauser HSc, excellent condition, provenience unknown".

That.30 Mauser bolt-action job was pretty darned "useful," I'd say.

ATF and other law-enforcement located an older model imported Mauser.30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus.

You are correct that it would be non-semiauto, as the mechanics of an open-bolt automatic weapon are simpler than even a bolt-action weapon (compare, say, the M3 greasegun to a Mauser).

Mauser and digitkey are very expensive to ship here (Switzerland) so unless my order is larger it's not worth it for small project that don't need any guarantee on where the part came from.