Right side of a vz.52/57 rifle chambered for 7.62×39 mm that was made in 1959. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the Czechoslovak Army decided that the time had come to retire the rifle ...

The term “samopal” was used by the Czech arms designers instead to denote all select-fire weapons that were adopted following the Vz. 52 semi-automatic rifle. Externally the Vz. 58 has more ...