Swastikas on Swedish shotguns

Big Bad said:
I am hugely disappointed in the Finnish Air Force then, which I'm sure will disappoint them greatly, but OTOH they did spend much of WWII fighting the Soviets and not the Nazis. But for the rest, do you have any examples of the Scandinavian brands still using them? It seems the search engines do not.
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You're disappointed? Why? Was Finland suppose to fight Germany that never invaded them and to ally with USSR that invaded them just because Germans were "baddies" of that war?
I don't recall which local brands had it when I was visiting Denmark, Finland and Norway. It was 15 or so years ago. I think it was some beer, but I might be wrong. In post above Rob mentions local shipping company. I just recall seeing here and there.

Back on the topic, I read somewhere this shotgun swastikas are variant of runes, it was used to marked hammer forged barrels and was abandoned after WW2.
 
I thought I read somewhere that these were marks used by Husqvarna to denote hammer forged barrels. The symbol was some kind of ancient Lappland rune or something. Husqvarna stopped using these marks in the 40s for obvious reasons. Your shotgun pre-dates this.

I can't be certain of this - just something I recall reading somewhere.

As others have said, that symbol appears all over the world, especially in South and central Asia, but in some European cultures as well. Hitler didn't make it up - he just repurposed it. The ancient Germanics (Central and Northern Europeans), Eurasians, Celts, Greeks, etc. all used it at one time or another.
 
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Big Bad said:
The question would be whether the item was made before or during the war. I think it's safe to say no one in Europe was still using them in 1946.
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Not true. The Finnish Air Force used a blue swastika as their symbol from 1918-2020.

ETA: Horilka beat me to it, by a long shot.
 
Horilka said:
You're disappointed? Why? Was Finland suppose to fight Germany that never invaded them and to ally with USSR that invaded them just because Germans were "baddies" of that war?
I don't recall which local brands had it when I was visiting Denmark, Finland and Norway. It was 15 or so years ago. I think it was some beer, but I might be wrong. In post above Rob mentions local shipping company. I just recall seeing here and there.

Back on the topic, I read somewhere this shotgun swastikas are variant of runes, it was used to marked hammer forged barrels and was abandoned after WW2.
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You aren't trying to make a lie of the movie 'Sisu' are you, lol?

Anyway, Finland at first fought alongside the Nazis in two distinct phases after the Soviet invasion. However, in a third phase during the last years of WWII, they fought Germany on the Allied side to drive the Nazis out of their territory. Good reference here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland_in_World_War_II

And hey, I'm always preaching about how the swastika is an honourable old good luck symbol that HItler polluted, so if its use continued after that bastard, that's great- as long as those using it weren't Nazis. I would call that rehab.
 
Big Bad said:
You aren't trying to make a lie of the movie 'Sisu' are you, lol?
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Oh, I know Finland history pretty well, both WW1 and WW2 periods. Indeed they had very brief episode when they asked Germans to get out and those did not want.
But movies.. movies are better. How can I deny Sisu truth when they used Soviet post WW2 T-55 tank and post WW2 MG as German? If it is movie than it's true.
 
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rajczak_kashka said:
That’s a Ukrainian Swastika. I recognize it from Christia Freeland’s grandpa’s gun. She has it hanging proudly above her desk.
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This little dude is so funny. Not enough threads about Ukraine in off-topic and politics so you came here and apparently Ukrainians are to blame for Swedish swastika on pre-WW2 shotgun. They are Evil Titans in your caveman world, eh? Did they still your little pink bicycle when you were a little one and now you hate them?

For your reference - Christia Freeland grandpa did not serve (she still is much hated b***ch, in that I would agree), we worked in local Polish newspaper, worked like millions of other Europeans who had to live years under occupation. But I don't think facts are more important than stolen pink bike.
 
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