1941 No.4 Mk1(T) Savage (S) production part 3/3

[breakeyp]

The work he did on the BREN is just as ingenious using M1 carbine hammer, FAL hammer spring in the innards to get it firing from a closed bolt. His weld up of the receiver was purposely made more visible to assure BATF that it was made from a destroyed receiver. Externally it is an exact copy of a Mk1 BREN.

Over the course of several years pending my finding destroyed receivers, he built semi auto FALs, Indian, Canadian, Australian and several British. Of course we can't do that stuff now as the current rules for receiver destruction cut swarths so big that simple welding can't bring them back. When we were doing this all that had to be done was to cut the receiver into three parts. He also did a wonder TRW M14 with dummy full auto parts for me. We were playing with a semi Lewis gun when my parts sources in Canada dried up. Oh well.

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[PrinzEugen]

The work he did on the BREN is just as ingenious using M1 carbine hammer, FAL hammer spring in the innards to get it firing from a closed bolt. His weld up of the receiver was purposely made more visible to assure BATF that it was made from a destroyed receiver. Externally it is an exact copy of a Mk1 BREN.

In the uk a bren would have to be a straight pull to be legal. But as I understand our (somewhat ludicrous) law, if would still be illegal if you converted one to this - it would have be be a new-build replica which had ALWAYS been a straight pull (like the AR15 etc types we now get), so unless someone has a bright idea, we're not going to be able to do it.