The MV 31, formerly known as the VMG 1927, is a German light machinegun fed from a drum magazine in the bottom. It features quick change barrel, bipod, forwards handle, and other such characteristics making it suitable as a portable light machinegun. Though not many were made, the MV 31's production was largely financed privately by Mauser, and sold to a number of volunteer militias (or Freikorps) working under the orders of Germany's largest corporations (IG Farben, Mauser, Krupp, etc.)