A very interesting piece of history; I've got an autographed copy of Johnson's 1945 "Automatic Weapons of the World", with a photo of some of the intermediate stages of his M1941 design, and it certainly appears that your rifle would fit into the line-up. Your rifle shows the odd safety in front of the trigger-guard, as well as what appears to have been an in-line mag that was used early on.
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