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BATF will take the pragmatic view that the "barrel length" is whatever the manufacturer and the military said it was. Unless you've altered it, the barrel is described in H&R advertisements and in the Army's Fort Benning testing as "11 inches". You could note on the form that this does not...

Without belaboring the obvious Why not just try a box of factory Winchester or Remington? M

After more than 40 years of owning, shooting and working on several dozen different models of submachine guns including a Reising, I think I have enough practical experience to express a well-founded opinion that almost any other submachine gun that I am familiar with is superior to a Reising...

A Reising is not a good choice for a first-time buyer or the mechanically disadvantaged. Save your money and buy a better gun. Buying a Reising is like stepping on dogsh*t with both feet at the same time. The Marine Corps should have frog-marched Eugene Reising into the factory courtyard at...

A handful of early FN-made UZIs with a small cocking handle and no ratchet mechanism were commercially imported into the USA c. 1962-63, and are fully transferrable. Additionally about 2,000, presumably FN-made guns, were imported for the U.S. government. After 1968 when importation was...

In this case, engineering had nothing to do with it. Engineering was completely ignored. M

Clear photos of the "integral" (not really) CIA-contract suppressor for the Carl Gustav appeared in "The World's Machine Pistols and Submachine Guns" by Thomas B. Nelson and Daniel Musgrave, first published in 1980. It has been suggested that the device was manufactured by AMF Corp...

Probably one of five causes common to rimfire SMGs: 1) A chamber that was either made too short, or has gotten fouled enough to stop the free forward movement of the cartridge, leaving the rearmost portion of the case unchambered when the cartridge is fired. 2) A firing pin that --for any...

Ya gets what ya pays for. No matter what anybody says, there IS a difference between an original and a "tube" gun. M