オブレズ
An [i]obrez[/i] is a rifle that has been hastily converted into a makeshift handgun by shortening the barrel and sawing off the shoulder stock. The canonical [i]obrez[/i] is based on the [[bolt action]] [[Mosin-Nagant]]. The term is a [[Russian text|Russian]] word that means "sawn-off" or "cut-off".

It supposedly originated during the Russian Revolution of 1917, when revolutionaries are said to have captured/stolen military rifles and cut them down for concealability purposes.  In practice, a full-power military [[rifle]] circa the turn of the 20th century makes for a ludicrously unwieldy [[handgun]], and although contemporary examples do exist in museums today, there is little evidence that they were ever employed in large numbers.

h4. See also
* [[List of weapons]]
* [[sawed-off shotgun|Sawn-off shotgun]]
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