Why no French milsurps?

[Singer B]

Haha! I was at a gun show in southern California about a month ago. One of the vendors had a "mint, unfired Mas-36" for sale. The gun was in beautiful condition and the vendor was adamant that it was unfired. I explained to him that the French had refurbished all of them to like new condition before exporting them to the USA and I had a beautiful 36 at home just like his. I'm sure someone at the show believed him and paid the $900 he was asking. My Mas 49/56 was one of the Century Arms .308 conversions that normally don't work well, but mine works just fine thank goodness.