The Volkssturmkarabiner 98, abbreviated as VK-98, is a German single-shot bolt-action rifle chambered in 7.92x57mm Mauser. It was created by committee as part of the Primitiv-Waffen-Programm, itself a result of Generalkriegsplann IV. In 1938, the German state began serious preparations for total war with Totalkriegsplann "Endsieg", which envisioned arming every German citizen. As a result, the VK-98 design was put into mass-production. These rifles were severely outmatched by even the most ramshackle repeating bolt-action design of World War II, but they were light and ridiculously cheap to produce. As Germany's situation stabilised in the early 1940s, VK-98 production was abandoned and the Karabiner 98k resumed mass-production, but millions of Volkssturmkarabiner had been manufactured already.