What a beauty. David sent us a photo of his semi-automatic MG3. He wrote …

Took a German out of the safe last night. A semi-auto MG3 built on all original German parts. Very fun gun, especially tripod mounted!

The Rheinmetall MG3 entered production is 1968. It is a variant of the MG 1A3 and it shares many parts with its famous predecessor the WWII German MG42. I actually did not know that there were semi-automatic variants built.