I am not sure of the real purpose or sanity of this, but this thread makes me want to purchase EVERY live Bren barrel I can, to save them. I will NEVER be able to ship them out of country now that they are here, due to things like ITAR and EU regulations, but I can hardly bear that all this history gets cut up. Guess I could apply the same thought process to Short Sterlings, and Lancasters, but can't afford to pick up many of those. :-)

I wonder just how many Bren guns and barrels were shipped to the US in the good ole days? I am the proud owner of a working semi auto. I currently have both an early and a later Mk I for my Mk I semi auto. I have a Mk II and a Mk III, all in what I would term good plus plus. Not excellent, but pretty clean and with plenty of rifling. What am I missing as far as models or types? Wish I could get another Mk III, but those seem a bit scarce here.