While in town for SHOT Show earlier this year, we had a chance to swing by and visit our old friends at Battlefield Vegas. They gratefully allowed us a chance to tour their vault and pick a few guns to profile and shoot.
Choices, choices…(Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)You know us, we like the rare ones.
Then we saw this baby, sandwiched between a Rattler and a UZI-SD.
This beautiful Mk. 1 Owen may look a little funky because it is a little funky, but we just had to check it out.
Keep in mind these were built for an all-up per-unit cost of about $30, so the furniture isn’t nice on this simple “toob” gun. In many respects, it was a forerunner of such simple modern SMGs as the Sterling and Beretta PMX. Note the charging handle is to the rear of the gun and comes super close to the face while reciprocating.
Top fed with a 33-round 9mm magazine, it has a very peculiar feel to it.
The ejection port is on the bottom.
One of the more curious aspects of the Owen is that the front sight post is off-center, canted to the right, as the top sight line is ruined by the magazine.
