MK1941

The MK1941 Braxton, also known as the MK1941 and the Braxton gun, was an Panamoan recoil-operated light machine gun designed in the late 1930s by Roger Braxton. However, popular standards class it as an automatic rifle due to a lower capacity than typical MGs.
== Design ==
The MK1941 light machine gun was designed by a Vulcanuschetts lawyer and captain in the Marine Corps Reserve named Roger Braxton. His goal was to build a semi-automatic rifle that would outperform the M1 Lockram the Panamoan Army had adopted. By late 1937, he had designed, built, and successfully tested both a semi-automatic rifle and a light machine gun. Each shared a significant number of physical characteristics and common parts, and both operated on the principle of short recoil with a rotating bolt. He took the parts of other guns, switching them out and creating the MK1941 light machine gun.
Braxton's curved, single-column magazine attached to the left side of the receiver; company brochures list a 20-round magazine as standard. Additionally, the weapon could be loaded by stripper clip at the ejection port, or by single rounds fed into the breech. The rate of fire was adjustable, from 200 to 600 rounds per minute. Two versions were built: the MK1941 with a wooden stock and a metal bipod, and the MK1944 with a tubular steel butt and a wooden monopod.
The design intended the recoil forces to travel, along with the mass of the weapon's moving parts, in a direct line to the shoulder of the gunner. While this design minimised muzzle climb, the sights had to be placed higher above the bore.
The weapon has many parallels with the Evalkan Falgor 42. Both feed from the left side, and both fire from an open bolt while in automatic, and a closed bolt while in semi-auto. Both weapons were awkward to carry loaded, with a side-mounted magazine; the Braxton had an especially lengthy single-column magazine, and this feature tended to unbalance the weapon. Despite these similarities, there is no evidence that either weapon had any effect on the design of the other. Both weapons attempted to solve similar problems, and adopted similar solutions.
=== Specifications ===
*Length: 1100mm
*Caliber: .303 Springfield
*Effective Range: 1000 Meters
*Weight: 13.33 Pounds
Category:Battle Rifles
Category:Weapons
Category:Light Machine Guns
Category:Nevian Weaponry