{"id":7639,"date":"2017-08-11T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/11\/costa-rican-breda-pg-the-first-burst-fire-rifle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:16:11","slug":"costa-rican-breda-pg-the-first-burst-fire-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/11\/costa-rican-breda-pg-the-first-burst-fire-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rican Breda PG: The First Burst-Fire Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0utf9Wu--W8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Breda PG (&#8220;Presa Gas&#8221; &#8211; Gas Operated) was developed by Sestilio Fiorini in 1931 and put into production at Breda&#8217;s factory in Rome. It was offered as a weapon for commercial sale and export, as well as being one of the several entrants in Italy&#8217;s semiautomatic rifle trials in the late 1930s. Unlike most of the other competitors in that trial, the Breda PG did actually find a commercial buyer (albeit a small one).<\/p>\n<p>The government of Costa Rica purchased 800 PG rifles. These were designated Moschetto Automatico, as they were equipped with a 4-round burst option as well as semiautomatic They fired from an open bolt (in both semiauto and burst modes) and were chambered for the 7x57mm Mauser cartridge, which was a common and popular round in Latin America at the time. <\/p>\n<p>The Italian military trials rifle was somewhat different. In addition to using the standard Italian 6.5x52mm Carcano cartridge, it was semiautomatic only and fired from a closed bolt. These were designated Fucil Semiautomatico, and only a few hundred were made (at most). <\/p>\n<p>Both versions used large detachable box magazines, including 20-, 30- and even 50-round varieties. 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It was offered as a weapon for commercial sale and export, as well as being one of the several entrants in Italy&#8217;s semiautomatic rifle trials in the late 1930s. Unlike most&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/11\/costa-rican-breda-pg-the-first-burst-fire-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Costa Rican Breda PG: The First Burst-Fire Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14756,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/14756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}