What happened to P14 rifles made in US for Britain?

[Frederick303]

Those are the MK IIB rifles, sold to the UK in WWI after Canada's adoption of the SMLE.

sent to the Baltic republics, the Ukraine and Armenia in 1919 to 1921. eventually captured by the Soviet Union between 1921~23 and the fall fo the Baltic republics in 1940.

The only ones of the MK IIIB rifles to come back were the ones sent by the Soviet Union to Spain in 1936.

Small numbers used by the Soviet Union for running bore international competition in the 1950s and 1960s.