What is the most simple commercially produced rifle?

It has a safety! They spared no expense indeed.

But we are already into simplicity over the function, I bet you a muzzle loader with a precision caps is closest thing to a club which can still propel a bullet forward.

Lyman Trade Rifle for instance.

I don't like the exposed hammer though. I would rather go Jaeger 9 for a single shot rifle. Or Ruger No1 - 2 springs and a couple of machined blocks of steel.
 
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owlowl said:
It has a safety! They spared no expense indeed.

But we are already into simplicity over the function, I bet you a muzzle loader with a precision caps is closest thing to a club which can still propel a bullet forward.

Lyman Trade Rifle for instance.

I don't like the exposed hammer though. I would rather go Jaeger 9 for a single shot rifle. Or Ruger No1 - 2 springs and a couple of machined blocks of steel.
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Yes, I agree with the percussion muzzle loader. Very simple and not a whole heck of a lot to go wrong. I was thinking more of center-fire but failed to put that in my original post.
 
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That is really interesting! I had never heard of it before.
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I stand corrected...it was a little bit of a complicated design, about a dozen pieces all together, made by the AMF company, the bowling pin people.
Original manufacturing cost to produce was $3.95, one recently sold at auction for $22000.

 
Does it only work for shooting people in the back while they run away waving their hands? Instructions images are very precise it seems.
 
Not sure how you get much simpler than a single shot rifle or shotgun. If one wants to spend 300 or 2000, that becomes the complicated part. The original premiss of the OP needs to be defined. People are posting resistance throw away guns, SMG's, and hunting guns.

Personally if one wants simple for a wilderness carry/survival gun. How about a 12 ga Single with a assortment of bird, buck, and slug. Breaks into three pieces to be politically correct/stowed, no more than a dozen moving parts, and snaps together in seconds when one sees a pile of Sheet the size of a microwave.
 
If you want Canada legal, I have another one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_Aircrew_Survival_Weapon

M6man02%20(7).jpg


There is or was 18-inch barrel version.

Vid on commercial version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e78Xe8dBQpg
 
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A Winchester model 37 or 39A something like that.. single shot. It is taken apart and buried in the back of the gun cabinet because that is the only way it will fit since it has a 3' long barrel. Most simple mass produced gun I've ever come across..
 
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