This is an example of a late WWII German MG-34 light machine gun that was used late in World War II by the German forces. These were developed prior to WWII by Heirich Vollmer of Mauser and were manufactured by several companies throughout the war up to and including the early part of 1945. They were an excellent and very reliable weapon; however, they proved to be very costly and time consuming to produce, so they were supplemented/replaced with the later stamped and machined MG-42. These weapons featured all machined parts that were, in many cases, hand fitted with exacting tolerances. This example was manufactured by the Waffenwerke Brunn factory in 1944 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, wartime code "dot". The top of the barrel jacket is marked "dot/1944/9922a", and it is fitted with an original folding bipod, front sight and tangent rear marked 2-20 (200-2,000 meters) and is fitted with dark red/black bakelite buttstock. It has matching visible numbered "major" parts with some smaller replacement parts. It comes with two Gurttrommel MG-34 basket/drum magazines and it is currently mounted in an original WWII German Dreifuss tripod designed for the MG-34. The side of the mount is marked "1938/8872".