There was a news article recently (within the last 12 months) that mentioned ISIS had captured a Syrian Government Armoury ... somewhere ... which contained thousands of StG-44s (MP-44s) and ammo for them, and had issued them for use.
And why not? A perfectly serviceable weapon.
The Australian Government had thousands of Vickers MGs and millions of SMLEs from WW2, many in their original cosmoline packing, stored around the country at least until the mid to late 1980s. The SMLEs, so I was told much later, were eventually scrapped at some point thereafter, but my informant wasn't sure about the Vickers'.
The Russians allegedly keep everything. I fully expect that there are Russian Armouries full of millions of Moison-Nagant Rifles still around. I suspect the Chinese are much the same.
Phil
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