Good morning All,
Just to clear up some of the armchair quarterbacking going on in this thread....
1) In the USA it is law, as it will be here once we adopt the UN Firearm Marking Regulations, that all imported firearms be engraved with the name and state of the importer. In this case it is CZ-USA hence these rifles say 'CZ-USA, Kansas City, KS'
All Bren 2 MS rifles are made in The Czech Republic by CZUB.
2) This is the handguard on all of the CZ-USA rifles. I will speculate they are made by HBI in The States, they are not the Euro version like on the shorter rifles. The hanguards look and feel fantastic and are M-LOK capable. This makes them also much easier to take on and off since they have less screws unlike the Euro version that is glued together with Blue Loctite, ugh...
3) The magazines are cheap and crappy little 5 rounders but that is from our Canadian official CZ importer, not Marstar. Nothing we can do about that except to shrug and know that good quality AR-15 mags are still fairly cheap and available. . . for now. Like me and many others, you probably already have a box of these from the AR-15 the Gov't stole from you.
4) The 16.5 inch and 11 inch both run flawlessly once we convert them. The 'Long' vs. 'Short' nonsense that has been going on in this thread is painful at best. We have converted over 100+ of them in all different configurations from the factory and they all leave here cycling as good or better than when they left the CZUB factory. We don't play about with springs or other doo-dads, we gas them properly to cycle on the standard setting of the gas block. These guns also have an adverse setting so you will never be out of go-juice to make these things run and run.
If it is simply about the look of the hand guards then that is personal preference and I understand that completely, to each their own.
But as far as the rhetoric about how CZ spent all this time doing this massive amount of R+D to tune each different this and that...no, they didn't. In fact they spent SO LITTLE time that the original 14 inch 7.62 guns had to have modifications to the gas regulator just to make them work at all. This is the reason some have THREE holes in them instead of two, reg and adv.
All in all these are absolutely brilliant rifles. They are well balance, ergonomic and simple to take down for cleaning and repairs. Sure doesn't hurt that the aftermarket parts companies are also making stuff to accommodate different tastes.
Stay well guys and know that between Marstar and ourselves we will do our best to make this a purchase you will be happy with for years to come.
