Husqvarna m/40 pistols have been banned by the Swedish Army as unsafe since 1991. While the original design of the Lahti L-35 is as ill suited to the use of submachine gun ammunition as the Luger that it replaced in the Finnish military service, the notorious fragility of its licensed Swedish derivative appears to be due to differences in metallurgy. When used with loads manufactured to the original DWM standard, the Finnish version is a great service sidearm, as accurate as a Luger, and much more reliable.
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