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I would think the most common rifle of WWII would be the Russian Moisin-Nagant Model 91/30. Over 17 million were produced to arm the largest mobilized army in history, the WWII Red Army.

Every major WWII combatant nation entered the war with a version of the same bolt-action rifle its soldiers had carried in WWI, including the US. The US was in the process of converting over to the M-1 semi-automatic rifle, but most US troops were still equipped with the Model 1903 Springfield. No other nation made such a change, and all others fought WWII with the same basic rifles as they had used in the first war. The Germans did begin production of the Sturm Gewehr 1943 (the design from which the Russian AK-47 is drawn) but never made enough to come close to rearming its entire force. All the service rifles were initially adopted between 1890-1910.

The Russian Moisin-Nagant first entered service as the Model 1891, but was redesigned in 1930, hence it was known as the Model 91/30.

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