Image Request for Japanese Self-loading Rifle Article.

Ronin48 said:

Gunnar, can't help you with the pre WW II auto loaders, but have a page and a half of GOOD photos of the current Japanese "assault" weapon, one page will be in the April B'zai. It shows the rifle, assembled and disassembled, close up of receiver, etc. If you have any need for this, use as a comparison, whatever, let me know. Doss

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Hi Doss,

Thanks for the reply. I presume by "current Japanese 'assault' weapon'" you mean the Type 89 rifle as used by the JSDF. I hope, being that its pictured in the April issue that it's not a.....uh....'seasonal joke' if you will....

All the same, I would be happy to have a few Type 89 pics - if that's what you mean - since you offered. It might be a nice way to finish the photographic aspect of the article by showing the current-issue legacy of pre and intra-war auto-loading rifle development in Japan.

I've found some pics of a Type 4 from an on-line auction house and another from a prior thread on this board but I'd feel a lot better getting permission to include some images first, hence this thread and my appeal. I've PM'd Fred Honeycutt to see if I could use some images he has in MROJ of the pre-war auto-loading rifles as well as pics he posted some time ago showing one of the NSS proto-types he owns but did not receive an answer from him.

If you can think of anyone else I could make enquiries to on the matter outside this board please PM me.

Thanks again for your help.

Best,

Gunnar