Johnson 1941 rifle - prohib?

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I will be receiving my pal in a few weeks and wish to purchase a Johnson 1941 rifle. The rifle has a 10 round magazine which as far as I can see can't be pinned so does this make it prohib or is there an exception? This is a very interesting rifle that I would like to have as a start to what I hope to be a large collection. Thank you for your help. Chris
 
Pardon my ignorance of this rifles function, but instead of rivet pinning how about a block of wood or something between the mag spring and bottom of the mag to limit capacity?
 
Johnson .30-06 Military

This rifle was developed to be a semi-auto/full auto, to fire from a closed breach in single rounds and open breach when on full auto.

The reasoning for its design was that in single fire, the breach should be closed to minimize jump. But when in full auto, the breach stayed open for cooling.

At that time, late 30's when it was designed, I think by Johnson who was a government designer in Springfield. :confused:

I can recall them being advertised in the National Rifleman for $89.99. The good old days, eh?

From the experiences in WWI, the Bren was desinged as a light MG but in both single and bursts, it fired from an open breach. I am not sure about the US BAR.:sniper:

In my own experience with a Bren, set on bursts, it was capable of very accurate single rounds, each aimed with trigger control. I got s**t from NCO's who #####ed when I aimed each shot and they wanted 2-3-2-3 bursts. I said check the f******g target, I got both mags off in the alloted time. e best. :dancingbanana:

I am unsure if any other WWII LMG satified this quest. Perhaps the German LMG M34?:confused:

SOF
 
The 1941 Johnson rofle is semi-only, with a 10-round circular magazine - the M1941 Johnson LMG is a different animal (like a DROR - uses a side-mounted mag)
 
I thought the Johnson was exempt like the Garand?

Also, you're looking at easily $2000 for one, if you can find one.
 
Johnson is not exempt, they're internally rivited.
A piece of wood would be preferable, as it wouldn't require a hole being drilled into the magazine well, but it is easily removed so the gov't doesn't allow it.
 
First time I held one I thought it was such an interesting rifle too and really wanted one, until I found out how much they cost!
Needless to say, I now have a Garand which was more in my price range... would still really like one of those Johnsons though... hope you get one.
 
Skippy said:
Johnson is not exempt, they're internally rivited.
A piece of wood would be preferable, as it wouldn't require a hole being drilled into the magazine well, but it is easily removed so the gov't doesn't allow it.
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False. The regs clearly state that compounds like epoxy satisfy the permanent requirements.
 
I know of one that was plugged by tying 5 dummy cartridges together with heavy nylon twine, placing behind the follower, then gluing the whole works together.
It's just as permanent as riveting...probably more so as rivets are easy to drill out....but doesn't disfigure the magazine with holes .
 
I was under the impression that there was a standardized method of pinning all firearms/magazines. Back when the pinning laws were enacted was there not some validation done by the athorities with only certain methods being accepted?
 
"...thought the Johnson was exempt like the Garand..." Absolutely not. Only the M1 Rifle and Lee-Enfield are exempt from the silly mag capacity law.
 
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