The VG 2 rifle is fed from detachable box magazines, originally developed for Gewehr 43.
Locking is provided by two frontal lugs which lock into the steel insert pinned inside the stamped steel receiver. The Spreewerk Berlin Volkssturmgewehr VG 2 is also a manually operated bolt-action rifle with a similar rotating bolt and crude manual safety. The weapon's name can be translated directly either as 'People's assault rifle' or ' Volkssturm rifle.' Volkssturm, the German late war militia home defense force, means 'People's Assault' Sturmgewehr translates as 'assault rifle'. They share the common characteristic of being greatly simplified as an attempt to cope with severe lack of resources and industrial capacity in Germany during the final period of the war.
The Volkssturmgewehr ('People's Assault Rifle') is the name of several rifle designs developed by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II.
