Talk:Bren light machine gun

message: Not just with the Bren but with the Enfield aswell... why are nearly all the pictures representing Canadian troops? Can we get a more varied mix... perhaps even stick in a couple of pictures featuring the British Army? You know... it's main operator.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.124.242.34 (talk) 14:03, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly, three or four out of a dozen images is not "nearly all". Image selection takes into account whether the subject is shown well. Because of that, I have removed some images which weren't particularly useful (one of them Canadian), and added better illustrations of the Bren, some of which are in British use, some which aren't. (Hohum @) 15:15, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Canadian bias in the pictures

message: Why hyphen in 'Machine-gun' but not in 'Submachine gun'? GrahamBould 08:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphen

message: bringing this article into line with the new guideline/conventions for naming of British/Commonwealth Military Firearms, and renaming this article Bren machine gun- thoughts? --Commander Zulu 23:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed (keeping 'Bren' link of course) GrahamBould 08:14, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is true, and I've got no problems Machine Gun or Bren Gun? --Commander Zulu 14:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Bren gun for me, but perhaps if its official title was in the introductory paragraph somewhere. GraemeLeggett 14:48, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  This renaming discussion has been going on for some time - let's change it to anything but the silly BREN. GrahamBould 16:30, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I see it's been moved to "BREN Light machine gun".   Much better, but shouldn't it be "Bren light machine gun"?  Why all the capitals? GrahamBould 16:29, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I've moved the article to "Bren light machine gun"- I've never actually seen the gun's name spelt BREN in any reference text (the same goes for the Sten gun too, incidentally). --Commander Zulu 08:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've cleaned up the redirects - why we didn't just move it back to "Bren", I don't know GraemeLeggett 13:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Whew, all over.  Bren might have been a bit short, at least the title now explains what it is. GrahamBould 13:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Renaming

message: There is said to be a grave marked "inventor of the Bren gun" in the Czech section of Brookwood Military Cemetery.    --jmb 13:02, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Inventor

message: This section starts by saying "British and Commonwealth forces", then mentioning a couple of them (Canada & India) separately, but not the many others.  I would have thought that all should be be listed, or none. GrahamBould (talk) 19:40, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Bren, like the Sten, was extensively dropped by the RAF for SOE, in parachute containers, to resistance groups all over occupied Europe, as well as elsewhere, so it would have had many and varied users. IIRC, China was also a user, as a number were supplied to Chiang Kai-sheks army.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 15:03, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Users

message: Perhaps there should be a brief reference to the semi-automatic only variants that are now being produced by a few manufacturers.  The BAR article makes mention of such variants of said system. 66.191.19.68 (talk) 22:01, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-auto-only variants? 

message: I removed Canada from the list of users, as the UK entry is "British and Commonwealth forces". If memory serves, Canada never used the Bren in combat outside Commonwealth/Empire commitments (i.e. World War 2 and Korea), while Australia (and possibly New Zealand) used it in Vietnam. Just added my signature. CMarshall (talk) 07:14, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada, the Commonwealth, and brevity 

message: Should mention be made of the strange method of firing blanks from a bren?  The blue-painted balsa wood bullets and the special "masher" barrel that shredded the projectile as it was fired.  I would add it myself but my scant knowledge is from being an army cadet nearly fifty years ago.  I do remember it was rather unsafe being anywhere near the business end of a gun firing blanks as balsa splinters can do some damage.  The "bulleted blanks" themselves were lethal if fired from a rifle or a bren without the special barrel. TheOneOnTheLeft (talk) 14:19, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blank ammo 

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message: Though it's perhaps obvious to those of us familiar with the Bren, I'm thinking it might perhaps be a good idea to point out to others that this isn't a regular Bren but one with bits of its receiver cut away to demonstrate how its innards work... thoughts?  --Vometia (talk) 15:58, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image 

message: Curiously the article states that the Mk2 was to simplify production for Inglis of Canada, yet "Ronnie", who is stated as being an Inglis employee, is posing by a Mk1. Did Inglis produce Mk1s before switching to Mk2s?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.49.213.37 (talk) 23:16, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of Ronnie the Bren gun girl 

message: Is the 100 round magazine for AA use with the Bren a drum magazine or a pan magazine? The article currently calls it a pan, but https://www.forgottenweapons.com/bren-100-round-drum/ calls it a drum - Ian "gun Jesus" McCollum of Forgotten Weapons is normally correct, but the cartridges are stored perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which I think would make it a pan. (Hohum @) 15:22, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Round magazines as many examples: drum mags which are like normal mags except they field in a spiral direction instead of a straight one(PPSH, Thompson), pan magazines that feed in a radial system where the bullets point towards the center of the magazine(DP-28, american 180), and pan magazines with no bottom(Lewis gun). I think the page is correct by calling it a pan in terms shape and mechanics. But if the circular part of the magazine feeds into a single or double-feed system to fit into the magazine well, then it could be classified as a drum. Most pan magazines don't need a second feed system to direct the cartridges from the pan to the feed lips(or other system used to stop the cartridges from spraying out). Does the Bren gun use a system like this for its 100-round magazine?Blamazon (talk) 18:54, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  100 round drum, or pan? 

message: The infobox gives the length as "42.9 in (1,156 mm)". First, that output in mm is too precise by one significant figure. More importantly, the quantities are different: 42.9 in = ; 1,156 mm = . At least one of these is incorrect. Hairy Dude (talk) 01:24, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length