I don’t know if you are old enough to remember the army surplus stores of the 1950s, but man the tripod machine guns that you could buy for $35.00 and $75.00 I was a kid and I guess the cheap ones were lessor models but I think that I remember one that looked like a common
french machine gun that I had read a lot about, but I couldn’t get the $50.00 or so to buy it.
Unfortunately I don't..that's a little before my time; not by much, but before my time nonetheless.