BR3 OR BR4
- BR3
- BR4
Many people have been asking to move the G43 to br3 under the delusion the Garand is comparable. A ten round rifle that can reload in 2 seconds is of course only as good as a rifle with eight rounds that reloads in 3.1 seconds. that being said the Magazine fed version of the Johnson wopuold be a far better version for BR4 then the rotary fed Johnson. Fixing the SV38 by making it stripper clip fed is a far better option. But which ever way we go fixing the BR3/4 rifle problem adding the Mag Johnson is a good choice.
the 1938 model Johnson, before the rotary magazine was introduced in 1941. One of these guns was actually converted to full-auto by the British Army early in World War II for field tests by the BEF, along with an M1 Garand and a ZH-29. These were known as “machine rifles” and were intended to be compared to SMGs and LMGs, but the concept was quickly abandoned. Ironic that the US would later adopt the M14 which was essentially a further development of the same idea.
Johnson’s rifle was a short-recoil operated design with a simple machined receiver and multi-lugged rotating bolt, initial prototypes of which fed from detachable 10-round box magazines. Johnson demonstrated the rifle to Army and Marine Corps officials in 1937 and 1938, after which the Army rejected it as they felt the existing M1 rifle was superior. Johnson was far too tenacious to accept this, however, and he used his writing as a platform to lambaste the Garand at every turn, and his political connections to a Senator Morris Shepherd of Texas to force the Army to give the Johnson a “shoot-off” with the M1 Garand. In 1940, Senator Shepherd even introduced a bill to the U.S. Senate that would have, effective immediately, caused the adoption of Johnson’s rifle as the standard arm of United States. In the event, the bill did not pass, but its existence does illustrate the extent of Johnson’s political influence.
