Gun Collectors Dream Auction 63 Day Two
Lot 1206:
Up Next We Have a Romanian M69 UMC 2 Bolt Action Training Rifle Chambered in .22 LR and Dated 1973. Comes With one detachable five-round magazine, Trap door Buttstock, Equipped With a Hooded Front Sight and a Three Leaf Flip Up Rear Sight. The story of this .22 rifle really starts in World War Two Czechoslovakia. The Czechs produced weapons for the German war effort, among those weapons were .22 training rifles. After the war the Czechs continued to sell those .22 rifles as the Brno model 1. The Brno model 1 became the inspiration or genesis for many .22 training rifles used in the Warsaw Pact countries.
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