Mosin-Nagant

The Mosin-Nagant is a bolt-action, internal magazine fed, military rifle that was used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various Eastern bloc nations. Also known as the Three-Line Rifle, it was the first to use the 7.62x54mmR cartridge.

As a front-line rifle, the Mosin-Nagant served in various forms from 1891 until the 1960s in many Eastern European nations, when the sniper rifle variant was replaced by the SVD (Snajperskaâ vintovka Dragunova). The Mosin-Nagant is still used in many conflicts due to its ruggedness and the vast number produced during World War II.

Nagant in The Two Georges
The Nagant rifle remained the main Russian Army long arm through to the mid-1990s. It was comparable to the British Lee-Enfield.

In 1995 a Nagant was used in the murder of "Honest" Dick as a diversion in the aid of the theft of The Two Georges. Colonel Thomas Bushell's investigation led to a Sons of Liberty arms smuggling ring based in the Queen Charlotte Islands.