SW76 Sub Guns Soon to be sold out by JMB Distribution

[medphys]

I believe he only had 100 tubes as his settlement of the 10+ year long lawsuit between he and John Stemple.

Somewhere in a previous post it referenced an article that was written around the time he brought these to market, and it said he had enough tubes for only 100 guns.

I am a fairly new owner of an SW76, having acquired mine from Jim back in March 2025, and have put over 4,000 rounds through it to date. Other than an extractor tip breaking off around the 1,400 round mark, it has been absolutely trouble free. It is a common occurrence for “Old Timers” to come up to me after seeing it run and tell me it is the best running 76 gun they’ve ever seen.


I believe these guns will indeed increase in value once Jim sells out his remaining inventory, as they are actually a superior product compared to other S&W76 clones. The recoil spring guide has a spring loaded plunger that prevents the recoil spring from “kinking” in its travel, and the relocated extractor location should technically improve extractor life. Also, the trigger pin is easily removable (not riveted like other clones and original S&W’s), so a trigger bar repair should be easily accomplished when necessary.

My gun had a lot of looseness in the magazine fitment when using standard Suomi magazines, but this was easily corrected with several wraps of electrical tape on each mag, building them up as needed to remove the excess play. Now that I’ve done this individually for each magazine, I can insert the mags and use them as a forward hand grip with 100% reliability.

My buddy (who also owns an Uzi and an original S&W76) just recently purchased a Burgess gun from Jim, after running mine and realizing what a great value they are in today’s market.

It's time to take this thing up a notch. I can't wait for mine to get here. Old school, suppressed slow fire BSW76, here we come, baby!

Smith & Wesson Model 76 - Wikipedia

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The New SW76 Submachine Gun

By Frank Iannamico

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[jburgess]

Hello All:
I am ordering a SW76 from Jim Burgess.

He has sold all his suppressors and has 7 or 8 guns left.

Once they are gone ,there gone and the ones out there should slowly climb in value

Get yours while you can . $9460 and not negotiable.

with S&W 76s going for 16k-20k ,this is a bargain!!

https://www.jmbdistribution.com/

I have only 4 guns left , one is parked at$ 9460.00 , the other 3 are powder coated , black like mp5s . they are $ 9660.00 ea
jim burgess

 

[skoda]

How do we contact you Jim? The link above to your web site gives me a nasty warning about scammers.

 

[JC556N]

I've had one of these for a few years and was curious on the history of the gun. I have #702.

It doesn't have a semi auto function and runs like crap but it's nice to see some history on it.

 

[longleke]

Mine is #732, and runs like a sewing machine, although the secret was to apply electrical tape to each magazine to prevent wobble when inserted in the mag well.

I also found that mine would fire multiple times when the selector switch was set to semi- auto. Apparently it requires a very quick pull of the trigger to allow the trigger bar to drop free from the notch in the sear before the action cycles and fires additional rounds. If I need to shoot single shots, such as when sighting it in, I load up a mag with one live round followed by one dummy round, and continue this pattern until the mag is full. That way the gun stops after one round is fired, but has the added cushion of the brass dummy round in the chamber. I then just cock back the bolt for each subsequent shot, and gather my dummy rounds after I’m finished. A buddy who reloads 9mm made me a box of 50 dummies with red painted tips and silicone filled primer pockets.

 

[JC556N]

It's a neat gun, speculation when purchased was that a prop house had it made on a cheap Stemple tube to mimic an SW76 at some point.

We call it the danger tube, as it has a tendency to run away or just flat stop working.

If it didn't have a unique cut for the extractor I'd convert it to .22LR with one of the new kits on the market, but I don't think it's possible.