{"id":99640,"date":"2026-05-03T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99640"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:13:18","slug":"the-extremely-rare-folding-stock-beretta-38-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/03\/the-extremely-rare-folding-stock-beretta-38-43\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extremely Rare Folding Stock Beretta 38\/43"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CE-74usHyW8?si=jjD5Ho9FLscrBtVp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 12 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>The Beretta Model 38 SMG was a very successful design, and a folding-stocked version of it was a natural development. Beretta first made a prototype of such a thing in 1941, but it never went into production &mdash; possibly because Italy ceased to have an effective paratrooper corps after El Alamein. However, many of the design elements from this experiment saw use in the simplified 38\/42 and 38\/44 models of the Beretta SMG. Late in the war, a small batch of folding-stocked guns were actually produced (one source says about 200) specifically for the RSI. This was the puppet government Germany operated in northern Italy after the country surrendered to Allied forces.<\/p>\n<p>This particular example came out of the Balkans, and managed to acquire a Yugoslav national crest along the way &mdash; although I don&#8217;t know the details of how. 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Beretta first made a prototype of such a thing in 1941, but it never went into production &mdash; possibly because Italy ceased to have an effective paratrooper corps after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,339,5,663,230],"tags":[140,1366,49,690,1264],"class_list":["post-99640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-italy","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-design","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-specialforces","tag-submachineguns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pV6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99641,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99640\/revisions\/99641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}