Hotchkiss M1929 / Mle 1930 Heavy Machine Gun Display Receiver w/ 13.2MM Barrel, Left Side Charge Handle, Bent Dust Cover, No Flash Hider

Hotchkiss M1930 heavy machine gun display receiver with 13.2mm live barrel, Left side Charge Handle, Bent Dust Cover, No Flash Hider

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This famous gun is rarely available to add to your collection!
Fielded in the 1930's these HMG's were used by the military forces of the French, Japanese, Greeks, Romanian's, Russian's and Germans in both ground, ship and submarine deck gun mounts.
Hotchkiss Mle 1930 display MG with issue barrel and welded solid receiver.
Includes torch cut demilled receiver pieces that are welded up solid to ATF standard.
Includes display receiver (with left side charging handle and a bent dust cover) and a live barrel.
Barrel has not been demilled, the bore of this barrel is in rough shape with lots of pitting and grime..
A block has been welded to the bolts guide rails making the receiver only suitable for display.
Shows signs of grime, wear, and marring.

The Hotchkiss M1930 heavy machine gun is a gas operated, air-cooled, automatic-only weapon, which fires from an open bolt. The long-stroke gas system locks using a tilting locking piece similar to those of the Hotchkiss M1922 LMG. The rear part of the barrel (behind the gas block) is encased in a radiator with radial cooling fins. This magazine-fed HMG incorporates a bolt hold-open device, which locks the bolt open once the magazine is empty, even if the trigger is still held down. The bolt hold-open device is automatically disengaged once a fresh magazine is inserted into the gun.
The M1930 heavy machine gun was available on a wide variety of mountings, including light infantry tripods (with no AA capability), wheeled mountings, as well as single, twin and quad AA mountings, with ground fire capability and comprehensive aiming systems.  The magazine-fed guns were also widely used on multiple gun mounts, either ground or naval.

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