What weapons are used to seeing our fellow citizens in the hands of "brothers" from the "dashing 90s"? First of all, these are domestic samples that could be obtained from the police or the army: Kalashnikov assault rifles, hunting and pump-action shotguns, Makarov pistols and Tula Tokarevs. However, in the galaxy of weapons most in demand by criminals at that time, at least one imported model stood out - the Agram-2000 submachine gun. What was he like and where did he come from?
On the “conscience” of the Agram-2000 submachine gun in the 1990s, at least 60 contract killings were recorded. With a high degree of confidence, we can say that this is the most “bloody” sample of imported weapons used by Russian organized crime in those troubled years. The submachine gun came to Russia from Croatia, where it was created in 1992. As you might guess, this weapon was created at the very beginning of the Civil War in Yugoslavia. It was used mainly by all kinds of partisan, rebel, nationalist, terrorist formations.
It is known that a certain Ivan Vugrek became the designer of the miracle PP. A submachine gun was developed chambered for 9x19 mm Parabellum caliber. With a weapon mass of 1.8 kg, the PP was supplied with magazines for 22 or 32 cartridges, had a length of 482 mm and a firing range of 150 meters. The rate of fire of the weapon in this case could reach 800 rounds per minute. The machine used a trigger type trigger and was equipped with a safety lever.
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The submachine gun had a number of serious drawbacks: low firing efficiency at long range, generally small reliability, poor quality of parts and low resource, lack of a normal stock and primitive aiming fixtures. At the same time, many will have a question: what then is the reason for such popularity of Agram? In fact, everything is quite simple and extremely sad.
The fact is that these PPs poured into Russia and Ukraine straight from the Civil War in Yugoslavia. There, PPs were produced on non-professional equipment from available materials, often in handicraft workshops. In fact, the weapon was the result of "folk art". Besides the fact that all this made it terribly cheap and affordable, there was another important circumstance. Namely, the fact that "Agram" produced in wartime conditions did not shoot back at all for the bullet-sleeve of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and did not had markings that made them a real ghost weapon and an excellent choice for those who wanted to make a kill person. Therefore, from 1995 to 2012, a whole wave of high-profile crimes (contract killings) swept through Russia and Ukraine in which the killers used this particular Croatian machine gun. Here are just a few examples:
1996 - the murder of the People's Deputy of Ukraine Yevgeny Shcherban in Donetsk
1998 - the murder of deputy Galina Starovoitova in St. Petersburg.
2000 - triple murder at the Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg
2001 - the murder of the deputy. Prefect of Zelenogradsky district of Moscow L. Oblonsky
2005 - shootout at the Yellow Submarine restaurant in Moscow
If you want to know even more interesting things, then you should read about 5 strange weaponsfor which the authors were embarrassed.
Source: https://novate.ru/blogs/140422/62708/