Inglis 7.92mm Bren

[Peter Laidler]

The intelligence community usually (when they're able to be asked about such things.....) cringe at the notion of 'sterile' weapons, especially firearms. This is for many reasons. The principle one is that guns are made for killing people and once (if?) they are recovered, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to immediately identify the basic points of a) who made it and b) where it was made. These are inescapable facts. The next reason is that...................... anyway, the notion of using sterile light machine guns is a bit.............. Additionally, when weapons are fed into these 'groups', they are left marked simply so that the source of supply can be whitewashed - if that makes sense.

These are the words of an intelligence Major.

But back to this gun in particular, it looks to me like this is what we'd call now, a bit of 'identity theft' or in used car parlance, 'a bit of old fashioned car ringing'

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[John R.]

The intelligence community usually (when they're able to be asked about such things.....) cringe at the notion of 'sterile' weapons, especially firearms. This is for many reasons. The principle one is that guns are made for killing people and once (if?) they are recovered, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to immediately identify the basic points of a) who made it and b) where it was made. These are inescapable facts. The next reason is that...................... anyway, the notion of using sterile light machine guns is a bit.............. Additionally, when weapons are fed into these 'groups', they are left marked simply so that the source of supply can be whitewashed - if that makes sense.

These are the words of an intelligence Major.

But back to this gun in particular, it looks to me like this is what we'd call now, a bit of 'identity theft' or in used car parlance, 'a bit of old fashioned car ringing'

You should see what your neighbours across the channel think is a"STERILE" weapon.

We had a few MAT 49 SMG's that sort of 'filtered down' from BIAFRA to Rhodesia and aber natuerlich wound up in the WRONG HANDS(i.e., blackish ones).

The tops of the receivers were roll stamped as follows.

Manufacture Nationale D'Armes Tulle

Modele 49

No.______ (blank space)

Holey sheepschitt ! Silly damned Ferogs just compounded the felony by leaving OFF the serial numbers.WHO could snaffle UN-NUMBERED SMG's out of a FRENCH GOVERNMENT ORDNANCE PLANT without serial numbers ? Better to have numbered them randomly USING THE SAME S/N groups as were shipped to French CLIENT States elswhere in i'Afrika; n'est ce pas mes amis ??