Bren Ten feeler

[jyo]

OK folks---I was managing the largest gunstore in L.A. when the Bren 10 came out---the gun press proclaimed it "the best thing ever"---orders POURED in---the actual production guns arrived MUCH later---without magazines! The few actual guns were ROUGH, but who cared---you couldn't shoot it anyway---no mags---many folks NEVER got mags. The pistol was a good idea---just never properly developed, poorly made, poorly finished and of course, no magazines. Personally, I cannot think of any reason to own one...

[The Gleam]

OK folks---I was managing the largest gunstore in L.A. when the Bren 10 came out---the gun press proclaimed it "the best thing ever"---orders POURED in---the actual production guns arrived MUCH later---without magazines! The few actual guns were ROUGH, but who cared---you couldn't shoot it anyway---no mags---many folks NEVER got mags. The pistol was a good idea---just never properly developed, poorly made, poorly finished and of course, no magazines. Personally, I cannot think of any reason to own one...

I concur with this; in the past several years I've held a few that I had a chance to buy (some with mags) and simply thought "why?". Prices were inflated due to the scarcity, but in all, you are buying nostalgia and marketing that became legend; you may as well track down a Colt Delta Elite for about 1/6th the price you pay for a Bren. To give you an idea, the last Bren Ten I cam across was NIB, with 2 mags, mint, looked unfired, asking $8,500. I passed. That was about 4 years ago.

Yet.... I don't think you need a "feeler" thead for a Bren Ten; collectors will still snatch it up simply because of that scarcity and legend, mags or no mags. I am simply a collector that was not interested in the Bren Tens.

[Bandit1978]

Two words...Sonny Crockett!

[Nick Justice]

If you want a shooter, try the Glock.