Well, Breda may well have used Winchester's old tooling but after Beretta's production staff inspected Winchester's equipment they determined that they would build their own tooling (though they never had before) to produce their NATO and other contract M1 rifles.
I recall this tidbit from an old Jousterpost -
Professional Firearms
519 W. Lodi Ave
Lodi, CA 95240
209-369-0211
they may have one/some...?
(found in a text file called "Breda_Receivers-buy_here.txt")![]()