![]() ![]() ![]() This was an excellent weapon, reliable, controllable and accurate, but Solothurn company lacked production capabilities. ![]() One of those weapons was an improved version of MP.19 submachine gun, which was announced by Waffenfabrik Solothurn under company index "S1-100". In 1929, Rheinmetall purchased the small Swiss-based company Wafenfabrik Solothurn, which was used to finalize some Rheinmetall small arms which were developed under secrecy in Germany. When Hitler came into power, German military-oriented companies began to move the R&D outside of Germany to avoid treaty limitations. After the end of WW1, Germany was severely limited in design and production of small arms by treaty of Versailles. This weapon was developed by Lous Stange to same specifications as Schmeisser's MP.18/I, but MP.19 came too late to see any action during WW1. The story of this weapon start in around 1919, when German arms-making company Rheinmetall produced a prototype submachine gun designated MP.19. ![]()
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