Comments by "Kevin Oliver" (@kevinoliver3083) on "Mauser Selbstlader M1916 (Infantry Version)" video.

  1. Another reason these guns are so rare is the restrictions on German gun ownership imposed after WW1. First by the Allied Powers then by the Weimar Republic. The Reichswehr had restrictions on the numbers of weapons it could posses: Anything in its inventory that was wornout, unreliable, or used non-standard parts would have been winnowed out, sold or scrapped. While civilians were banned from owning military calibre longarms. And the complex and precise self-loading mechanism of these Mausers would have made then difficult to convert to a legal sporting calibre.
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