The Enfauser was a bolt-action service rifle of the Ottoman Empire and later Turkish Republic derived from Lee-Enfield rifles captured during the Gallipoli Campaign and Turkish revolution. These rifles were altered to use a Mauser barrel and 5-round internal box magazine during the 1930s arms-standardization program of the fledgling Turkish Republic. Basically, they were a Lee-Enfield and Mauser hybrid, with the name being a contraction of Enfield and Mauser. Some variations feature stock fittings salvaged from German and even Italian firearms, and all display a high degree of improvisation in their construction.
Less than forty such rifles were accidentally imported to the US by Century Arms Inc in the mid 1990s, as part of making them an extremely rare rifle for US collectors to encounter. However, that rarity is also so great there is a very limited demand for examples when they are offered for sale. Some Enfausers were built from early Magazine Lee-Enfield long rifles, and are considered less valuable than unaltered examples of the Magazine Lee-Enfield.
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