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BREN, is that you?

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Of course, whenever one says the name, BREN, one thinks of the famous Czech-British (Brno-Enfield) light machine gun that served the Allies well during WWII– and the British Army well into the 1980s.

The more classic BREN gun was a thing of beauty. 

However, in more recent years, CZ has been making the Bren 2, a design that has been well-received in Central Europe. Available over here as a pistol, the gun was introduced on the consumer market in a carbine format last month and I caught one at SHOT Show while in Vegas.

Derived from the company’s select-fire Bren 2, a modular combat rifle in the same vein as the FN SCAR, Remington/Bushmaster ACR (nee Magpul Masada), Radom FB MSBS Grot and Serbu Diabolus, the Czech-made gun uses a carbon-fiber lower and stock mated to a lightweight aluminum upper.

The new CZ Bren 2 Ms Carbine

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Goodbye, BREN, hello BREN 2

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CZ’s 805 BREN line, a commercial variant of a modular light carbine developed for the Czech military, was nice. I say was because, with the exception of its select-fire cousin still being made for military sales (France, Egypt, Hungary and about a half-dozen other countries have entered into contracts for them of varying sizes) the 805 BREN was discontinued in its semi-auto commercial version.

The replacement?

Meet the new CZ BREN 2 Ms pistol, offered in both 7.62×39 and 5.56:

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Psst, need a GPMG? (paperwork required)

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Pic of post-sample Czech UK vz. 59 belt-fed general purpose machine gun in 7.62x54R that arrived at CzechPoint this month from the bonded warehouse after U.S. Customs clearance.

Paperwork will be submitted tomorrow to begin transfer to the SOT Dealer who purchased it. These are beautiful *unissued original factory machine guns* dated from 1994 and, if you are a LE or Mil end-user or SOT dealer with a signed letter, they are $3950, which is a steal for new-in-crate GPMGs.  Form 6 and Form 3 required.

The UK vz. 59 is an abbreviation for Univerzální kulomet vzor 59 (Universal Machine Gun model 1959), routinely shortened to UK-59. It is a right-hand belt fed machine gun utilizing non-disintegrating metallic 50 round link belts of which multiple belts can be linked together. Full auto-only, they have a 700-800rpm cyclic rate and weigh just 19.10 lbs.

Now that is a Scorpion with a subtle sting

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The classic Skorpion machine pistol dates back to the Cold War and CZ redefined that .32ACP room broom into a polymer framed 9mm a couple years back with the semi-auto blowback-operated CZ-USA Scorpion EVO.

Last year, the Czech Republic-based company added to the line with the Scorpion EVO 3 S1 carbine, which sports a 16.2-inch barrel and is offered with a faux suppressor built specifically for CZ-USA by SilencerCo.

However, 16.2-inches can seem so long on an otherwise handy pistol caliber carbine so SilencerCo has come to the rescue and converted a limited run of 35 Scorpions to short barreled rifles, complete with side-folding stocks and an  Omega 9K suppressor (delivers 131.5 dB reduction on 9mm) with a direct thread 18×1 mount.

How sweet it is.

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