Hey Steve, did you see my message to you on his Facebook post for this Bissell the other day?

I mentioned that for me, the style definitely feels later than earlier too. And the crosspin fastener forearm release mechanism does not feel French at all ( or at least it was much more common on British-made guns) nor Belgian which pretty much just made the French designs.

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