The Baikal MP-153 is a 12 gauge gas-operated semi-automatic shotgun designed by chief designer Alexander U. Dorf and manufactured in Russia, with development beginning in 1997 and production starting in 2001 at what became the Kalashnikov Concern's Izhevsk Mechanical Plant. It weighs about 3.45 to 3.5 kilograms, measures 1,250 millimeters overall with a barrel between 610 and 750 millimeters, and feeds from a three or five round tubular magazine. More than 500,000 had been produced by November 2010.
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The Baikal MP-153 is a 12 gauge gas-operated semi-automatic shotgun manufactured by Kalashnikov Concern (originally by the Izhevsk Mechanical Plant) in Russia.
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Semi-automatic shotgun
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2001-present
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Wikidata Q15991137, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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