SOUMI

AKMACHINIST · 10-05-2009, 01:26 PM

What is the diffenece if any between a KP-31 AND A M-31 SOUMI?

moleman · 10-05-2009, 02:03 PM

I belive they are the same thing. Kinda like everyone likes to put an "M" in front of any gun because thats what our military does. The KP44 though is a different animal.

kernelkrink · 10-05-2009, 06:52 PM

KP-31 is the correct Finnish designation, it stands for "Konepistooli-31". "Fast firing pistol" or somesuch, their term for submachinegun. As Moleman said, some people call it an M-31 which is incorrect, but "model-31" is easier to understand without a Finnish dictionary. Same gun.

AKMACHINIST · 10-06-2009, 12:09 AM

thanks very much for the info.

**sjohnson** · 10-06-2009, 12:14 AM

Suomi, not soumi.

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Definitions of suomi on the Web:

* Finland: republic in northern Europe; achieved independence from Russia in 1917
* Finnish: the official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages

Calling it soumi is kind of like calling the United States the Uinted States.