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Is that a PPSH? Unmodified, PPSH has a fixed firing pin and is open bolt. This means that unlike most firearms not meant specifically for sustained fully automatic fire, the bolt locks to the rear on each shot and is released by pulling the trigger to pick up the next round from the magazine and immediately fire upon the closure of the chamber around it. This is done for simplicity of design, to prevent cookoffs (premature detonation of a live cartridge in a very hot chamber) and to help keep the barrel ventilated for faster heat dissipation.
What it means here is if the trigger is pulled and the sear releases the bolt to come forward and fire, but a malfunction prevents the bolt from stripping a round, or feeding it all of the way into the chamber, you can have an extremely dangerous situation where you literally have a live round in front of the bolt and only the malfunction is standing in the way of it being pushed into the chamber and immediately firing.
Clearly this idiot did not know that.
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