This video explores the fascinating Bechowiec (Beha) SMG, a clandestine firearm produced in small numbers in southern Poland by a young resistance fighter named Henryk Strąpoć during World War II. Strąpoć, who had prior experience building illegal pistols, designed the SMG with creative, albeit unfamiliar, submachine gun features. It's essentially a scaled-up Ruby-type action chambered in 9x19mm, featuring a simple blowback slide, hammer-fired closed bolt, and a complex selective-fire trigger system. The video highlights its construction using repurposed WWI Mauser barrels for 9mm and Mosin Nagant barrels for 7.62x25mm Tokarev. Only one example of this historically significant SMG survives today, housed and deactivated at the Polish Army Museum.
This video features the Ruby Pistol, specifically highlighting its historical significance as a firearm accepted into the French military during World War I. The description emphasizes its unique place in military history and provides relevant hashtags for discoverability.
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