Just the upper receiver of the Bren takes something like 256 seperate machining operations.
It's a fine arm.
But there's no way one can be cheaply manufactured to make the north american market happy.....especially if you have to start from scratch and build everything.
WWII clones are, truly, a niche market.
If you build them cheap, they won't be historically accurate, and you won't get top dollar for them.
If they're historically accurate, they won't be cheap....and you'll have a very limited market.
If you build them cheap and not historically accurate, people will buy them, then complain because they're not historically accurate...you won't make people happy, and they'll complain...see where I'm going?
Build more SKS's.
NS