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From: jkh@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Re: Gun Trivia? [Well, this is a new idea.. -jh]
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 01:40:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 01:40:07 1985
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Author: dual!lll-crg!seismo!BRL.ARPA!wmartin@ucbvax
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Article: 12:15

I thought that he carried a Bren Ten. There is an amusing article
mentioning this in [I think] the latest Soldier of Fortune. Whereever
the column was, it mentioned that a recent episode showed him ejecting
and *dropping* his Bren Ten magazine. Now, if you've been following the
Bren Ten saga, you'll jknow that the guns are more plentiful than the
magazines (and the guns are still fairly rare) -- the manufacturer had a
reall mess-up when it came to getting the magazines produced. So the
column relates that, the day after the episode was shown, having
identified the site from landmarks visible on the TV, some Bren Ten
owners descended on that filming location like locusts, searching for
that discarded magazine, and that one found it. Now, the whole piece
reads like an April Fool article, so I put no credence in it being
factual. But it was amusing. The piece ended with a slam at Dornaus &
Dixon (if I spelled that right), the Bren Ten makers, for supplying
magazines to film companies when people who had paid for their guns
years ago still haven't gotten them, or gotten them without magazines!

Ah, well... Who knows....

(As for price for a Bren Ten, well, considering what I've read, I
wouldn't pay too much for one myself. They probably are commanding high
prices amongst those who want them, if you have one to sell complete with
magazine or one of the early commemorative special models.)
Regards, Will

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