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SAFN-49 Battle Rifle.FN49 COMMERCIAL rifle

GONE TO GTA**

IN THE EARLY 1960′s BROWNING ARMS CO. OF MORGAN UTAH OFFERED A COMMERCIAL VERSION OF THE SAFN-49 IN 30-06 CALIBER IN UNKNOWN BUT QUITE SMALL QUANTITIES

‘The SAFN-49 Battle Rifle.

A Shooters & Collector’s Guide’ by Joe Poyer

“The first SAFN-49s to be imported into the USA appeared in the early 1960s and may have been the sporting versions in .30-06 caliber produced by FN from military production overruns. These were sold through Browning Sporting Arms and represent the rarest of the SAFN-49 variations. Small quantities of SAFN-49s in .30-06 caliber marked AB (Armee Belgique) and AL (Armee Luxembourg) on the receiver ring were imported on occasion but the largest quantity appear to have been in 7.92 Mauser which were manufactured for the Egyptian Army. The 7 mm Mauser rifles manufactured for Venezuela have also appeared in quantity. In the mid-1990s, a few hundred SAFN-49s rebarreled to 7.62 mm NATO also appeared in tht USA. These were Argentine Navy rifles which had been converted from 7.65 mm Argentine.”
I spoke to Browning in the U.S.A.in 2010 and their ‘historian’ confirmed that they had imported a small quantity of the SAFN49 rifles–the commercial sporter version .

The only other commercial SAFN49 rifle is in the Nick Russo collection

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