The Lithgow SAF museum has a couple of "Homebuilt" models of autoloading SMLE rifles that were given it during the war as suggestions for manufacture. These were designed and made by backyard gunsmiths and some were more sucessful than others!
The Owen gun was designed by an enthusiast, Evelyn Owen, and his prototype samples were first made in .22RF and production samples made .32S&W and .45ACP, before final series production in 9mm. The Owen wasn't made at Lithgow, so they don't have much in the way of prototype examples of the Owen, but surely some museum must! I wonder where? AWM perhaps?
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17-02-06, 17:23
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