Quote Originally Posted by Bruce McAskill View Post
The odds of you having a leand lease carbine are very small indeed. There once was a company called Interarms that had warehouses in the London area full of just about every military rifle ever made. They also had buildings in Virginia and would import firearms from the UK all the time. The law in the UK is that if a firearm is to leave the country it must be proof fired before it leaves and be so marked just like your carbine. Interarms imported many thousands of carbines into the country before 1968 when the importers information had to be stamped on the firearm.
Actually any firearm sold commercially in Englandicon had to go through either the Birmingham or London proof house. A brand new firearm imported from the U.S. that was to be sold commercially in England had to be proofed. As long as the firearms sent to England through the Lend-Lease program remained in government hands, they did not have to be proofed, but once released for sale they had to be proofed regardless of whether they were to remain in the country or be exported.