VERY RARE DEACTIVATED WW2 GERMAN MG81 LIGHT MACHINE GUN (PRE EU DEACTIVATION)

This is a super rare and stunning deactivated WW2 German 7.92 MG81 Light Machine Gun equipped with a bipod a buttstock and the Luftwaffe eccentric drum rear sight, this LMG was designed for Infantry use, with Luftwaffe proof stamps in various places throughout. This is dated 1943 and is able to strip, cock and dry fire. This will most likely be the only one you will ever see. I believe there were only 12876 of these single MG81 LMG were made for ground use. So not many at all. UK sales only.

The machine gun was adopted in 1938, mainly in service with the Luftwaffe, but a number of MG 81s arrived in the Kriegsmarine, where they were installed in anti-aircraft guns on boats and transport ships; already in the spring of 1943 MG 81 light machine guns began to enter service with the "eastern" armed formations that took part in anti-partisan Operations; From 1944, they began to enter service with the Luftwaffe air field divisions, but by July 1944 at the warehouse there were still 33,164 unused machine guns of this type in storage (20,396 MG 81 aircraft machine guns and 12,768 MG 81Z coaxial machine guns); After the creation of the Volkssturm in the autumn of 1944, it entered service.

The MG 81 operates on the principle of recoil with a short barrel stroke. Locking, as in the MG 34, is carried out by turning the firing cylinder. The percussion mechanism is of the firing pin type. The trigger mechanism allows only continuous fire. The machine gun has a push-button safety located above the pistol grip. The slider-type feed mechanism allows for the two-way feeding of the semi-closed link belt, similar to that of the MG 17. To mitigate the impact of the moving system, a buffer spring is mounted in the rear of the receiver in the rearmost position. The barrel is cooled by air. The original design features of the MG 81 were the following: a rigid connection between the firing pin and the bolt; To break the cartridge primer, the energy of two springs is used at once - the recoil spring and the mechanism in which the movable tube, being in the rear position, is held cocked, which makes it easy and unhindered to take the bolt out of the receiver or, conversely, install it.

Code: 7211