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[RdrBill]

All.
324 sorry.

 

[billwill]

If you bought it you could share pictures. Bet that is a cool looking thing.

 

[DWalt]

I think someone will buy it at that price. It's sort of a S&W hen's tooth.

 

[Rule3]

Here is one "on sale" in the "Library" Version II

I do not know about the history/info

More pictures. Pretty cool.

Gun Library: S&W 1940 Light Rifle, Mark II : Cabela's

 

[BUFF]

History: In a nutshell, Great Britain was in a world of hurt for firearms when WW II began. S&W was in bad financial shape from the Depression. The Brits approached S&W to design and build a new military rifle and paid them a one million dollar advance. S&W designed the rifle, actually a carbine, as a 9mm semiautomatic.

S&W could not get their design to work. After making a couple thousand of them, Great Britain declined to accept any more and demanded their money back. S&W had already spent it. They negotiated a deal in which the Brits accepted revolvers instead of their money back.

There are a few of them around in the hands of some members of this site and other advanced S&W collectors.

 

[Kernel Crittenden]

Work out the bugs, ditch the goofy magazine holder, give it a pistol grip, select fire, a collapsing wire stock, chamber it in .30 Carbine, get the weight down to about 7 lbs, and you'd have a nifty competitor to the M1 Carbine. Looks like it would of been ideal for tankers and vehicle crewmen.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

I have been to a couple hundred gun shows and probably a thousand gun shops all over the country over the past 50 years. I have seen exactly one S&W 9mm Light Rifle.

I expect that a collector will fill a slot in his collection shortly with that one, at that price.

 

[kwill1911]

There are two of them in an upcoming auction at one of the biggest auction houses.

 

[bummer]

what was the reason for the magazine/covered ejector port?