I've never heard about this.
The Soviets later reexported most of these guns to other countries, $$$ you know.
and find it hard to believe. With up to 2 million hunters, many of whom had their guns confiscated and lost in 1941, no export since 1930s and domestic firearms industry working only for the military since 1939, 40 thousand of guns a year was a drop of water in the desert. In fact, the demand for sporting weapons was so great, that besides reparation guns and guns made by sporting arms devisions of arsenals, mass-scale conversion of leftover military rifles into 28-ga bolt-action shotguns had to be carried out. The sheer number of post-1945 Suhl shotguns still kicking around suggests that even if some reexport happened, 'most' "reparation guns" stayed in the USSR.
