FedEx says it will be arriving at the FFL tomorrow...
It's a semiauto rebuilt Bren. It started life as a an 8mm Mauser Bren built at Inglis under Chinese contract - the receiver is dated 1943 and still has the original Chinese markings:
It was shipped to China, and used by the Nationalist forces, until being captured by Communists at some point. They eventually converted it to 7.62x39mm, in order to use the same ammo and magazines as their recently-acquired AK rifles. The 8mm barrel was bored out and sleeved to 7.62mm, the mag catch, ejector, and dust cover were modified, and back into service it went.
Eventually it became obsolete and was put into storage until an American importer purchased it in a batch of guns, brought it into the US, and chopped the receiver into a parts kit.
After who knows how many owners, I got my hands on it, and sent it to Texas to be resurrected as a newly built semiauto. And now it's almost back to me! With any luck, I will be able to pick it up in time to run it in the local 2-gun match this weekend...
It's a semiauto rebuilt Bren. It started life as a an 8mm Mauser Bren built at Inglis under Chinese contract - the receiver is dated 1943 and still has the original Chinese markings:
It was shipped to China, and used by the Nationalist forces, until being captured by Communists at some point. They eventually converted it to 7.62x39mm, in order to use the same ammo and magazines as their recently-acquired AK rifles. The 8mm barrel was bored out and sleeved to 7.62mm, the mag catch, ejector, and dust cover were modified, and back into service it went.
Eventually it became obsolete and was put into storage until an American importer purchased it in a batch of guns, brought it into the US, and chopped the receiver into a parts kit.
After who knows how many owners, I got my hands on it, and sent it to Texas to be resurrected as a newly built semiauto. And now it's almost back to me! With any luck, I will be able to pick it up in time to run it in the local 2-gun match this weekend...